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Photo credits

Of the 32 pictures on this site, 19 are real photographs from Wikimedia Commons, used under the licence each photographer chose, and 13 are AI-generated; every one is listed in the table below.

Updated 11 November 2026

Real photographs

Wherever a real photo could show a fixture, a meter, a pipe run or a yard the way it looks in an ordinary home, we used one. These come from Wikimedia Commons, the shared media library behind Wikipedia, where photographers publish their work under open licences such as Creative Commons Attribution or Attribution-ShareAlike, or release it to the public domain.

Those licences let anyone reuse a photo as long as the photographer is credited, the licence is named and, for ShareAlike files, any changed version is shared under the same terms. The table below does that for each image: it gives the file's title, the photographer or uploader as Commons lists them, the licence, a link to the original file page and a note of any change we made.

Changes we made

Most photos are cropped or resized to fit the page. Where a photo showed a brand logo, a product name or a person's face, that part was blurred, so no picture on the site reads as an endorsement of a maker or shows someone who did not choose to appear here. Colours are otherwise left as the photographer took them.

AI-generated pictures

Thirteen pictures were made with an image generator because no suitable real photo could be found, for example the inside of a remodel wall or a pump under a sink. Where one of them is a page's main picture, its caption says it is an AI-generated picture; when the same picture appears again as a small thumbnail beside a link, it carries no caption. Each is listed in the table with that label. They illustrate a point; they are not evidence of how any product performs.

Drawings

The house cross-section on the home page and the other diagrams were drawn for this site from the figures they show, which are credited on the pages that use them.

If a credit is wrong

The original file page on Wikimedia Commons is the authority on who made each photo and under which licence. If our table and the Commons page ever disagree, the Commons page is right, and the table is corrected at the next update.