If you’ve ever snapped a quick photo of your living room and thought, “This would look so good... if I could just get my current sofa / pile of shoes / random cat tree out of the way,” this one’s for you.

Magic Background Edit is our new tool that lets you transform the background of a room photo directly inside Spoak—so you can design with your actual space, not just an approximation. Upload a photo of your room, clear out existing furniture and clutter, and try on new finishes like wall color or flooring, all without leaving your Vizi.

What Magic Background Edit does

Magic Background Edit is built for those moments when you want your design to feel less “inspired by” your home and more identical to it. With just a few clicks, you can:

• Edit your actual room photo. Upload a picture of your space and make edits to the background itself, rather than trying to fake it with stand-in images.
• Clear out furniture and clutter. Remove existing pieces (or yesterday’s laundry) so you can see how a new layout, sofa, or dining set would look without visual noise. 
• Try on new finishes. Test different paint colors, wallpapers, or flooring inside the same photo, so you’re seeing those choices against your real windows, lighting, and architecture. 
• Keep everything in one place. Once your background looks right, just keep designing on top of it like any other Vizi: add products, adjust scale, and layer decor the way you always do.

Under the hood, there’s a lot of smart tech doing the hard work. On the surface, it stays simple: you’re still just uploading a photo, clicking a button, and refining the results with a few quick prompts until your space looks the way you want.

Why we built Magic Background Edit

We’ve heard from so many of you that the dream workflow is: take a picture of your space, clear out what’s there now, and rebuild it inside Spoak with the pieces and finishes you’re considering—then generate a realistic rendering when you’re happy with it. Magic Background Edit is a big step toward making that flow feel natural, fast, and fun.

Instead of working around whatever happens to be in the photo (or trying to mentally edit out that bulky sectional you’re over), you can treat your room image like a clean stage. The architecture, windows, and lighting stay; the stuff you’re changing can vanish with a click. From there, you can layer in new furniture, swap paint colors, and experiment with flooring, all while staying in the same straightforward interface.

For everyday decorators and pros alike, the goal is the same: a clearer picture of whether an idea will actually work in your real space—without needing to learn complicated 3D tools.

How Magic Background Edit works in Spoak

You can find full step-by-step instructions here in our Help Hub, but here’s the high-level flow:

• Start with your room photo. Create a Vizi and set a photo of your space as the background.
• Open Magic Background Edit. From the editing toolbar, choose the Magic Background option to start editing the background image of your room.
• Choose what you want to change.
  
  • Remove existing furniture, decor, or visual clutter.
  • Adjust finishes like wall color, wallpaper, or flooring to test new schemes.
• Keep designing like you normally do. Once the background looks right, you can add products, adjust perspective, recolor items, and use all your usual Spoak tools on top—nothing about your normal workflow needs to change.

Design ideas to try first

Need a place to start? Here are a few ways to put Magic Background Edit to work on day one:

• The “I swear it’ll look good” sofa swap
  
  • Photograph your current living room.
  • Remove your existing sofa and any extra clutter from the background.
  • Drop in the new sofa you’re eyeing, plus a couple of side tables and a rug, to see if the scale and style really work in your room.
• Pre-reno paint courage
  
  • Take a picture of your bedroom or kitchen.
  • Use Magic Background Edit to virtually repaint the walls and try a few bold colors you’ve been nervous about.
  • Layer in textiles and art that coordinate with your favorite option so you can see the full story.
• Flooring what-if scenarios
  
  • Upload a shot of your space and clear any distracting items.
  • Test different wood tones, tile patterns, or rugs on the floor to decide what belongs in the actual renovation plan. 
• Client or partner buy-in
  
  • For designers (or anyone negotiating with a roommate/partner), clean up the room photo and build out two or three fully realized options in the same space.
  • Share the Vizis and let everyone vote on the version that feels the most “right.”

Because everything happens directly on your room photo, there’s less imagination gap and more “Oh, I see it now.”