No. 01 · September 2026 · The 5pm IssueBen and Belle are AI characters

Homes we imagined

Four homes, four floors

Pictures made with an AI image tool, to imagine a floor in a life. They aren't real homes or real families.

AI image of a young family building blocks with their baby on a light oak floor in an HDB flat — Light oak vinyl A 4-room HDB flat, Saturday morning.

AI image of an older couple dancing on a walnut-tone floor in a condo at night — Walnut vinyl A condo, after dinner.

AI image of a woman reading on a pouf in a small sunlit flat with a honey-toned wood-look floor — Honey oak vinyl A studio, at noon.

AI image of a double-height terrace house living room with a wide-plank oak floor and a dog asleep on a rug — Wide-plank engineered oak A terrace house, 4pm.

Real homes come later. When a family says yes in writing, their own floor goes here, and it says so.