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Colour palettes have long played a significant role in not only capturing design ambience (e.g., as mood boards), but more significantly, in translating an abstract intuition into an explicit ordering mechanism for design representation and synthesis, whether it is in the discipline of graphic design, interior design or architectural design. Might this difficult process of design synthesis from a low-dimensional colour input domain to a high-dimensional spatial design output domain be computationally mapped? Using today’s generative adversarial networks (GANs), the paper aims to investigate this plausibility, and in doing so, hoping to envision an AI-augmented design workflow and tooling. Newly-created datasets are made procedurally and used to train three different types of deep learning models in the specific context of generating living room interior layouts. The results suggest that a combination of syntactic and semantic generative processes is necessary for a critical appropriation of such AI models