turn your old photos into backrooms

Your places, gone liminal.

liminals.space is a mobile-first web app that turns your own photos of real, everyday places (your childhood bedroom, the school hallway, the dead mall, the hospital waiting room) into the eerie, half-remembered ”backrooms” / liminal-space version your brain keeps at 3am. You get each room in full resolution, with its VHS-style found-footage look, plus a keepsake you can download.

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2 photos · $4.99 · no account · your photos aren't saved.

See it: real rooms, turned into the backrooms

In the app you drag a slider to dissolve your real room into its liminal, backrooms-style version, graded onto worn VHS tape. A few before / after examples:

Before: a real 1990s childhood bedroom — curtained window, wooden dresser, toys on patterned carpet. After: the same childhood bedroom rebuilt as the backrooms — fluorescent-lit empty liminal space on worn VHS tape.
Childhood bedroom → the backrooms
Before: an empty 1990s elementary-school classroom with small desks, a chalkboard and fluorescent lights. After: the same classroom turned into an endless backrooms-style liminal corridor with a VHS found-footage look.
School classroom → the backrooms
Before: a lived-in 1990s suburban kitchen with oak cabinets, linoleum floor and a cluttered counter. After: the same kitchen reimagined as an eerie empty backrooms space, desaturated and grained like old tape.
’90s kitchen → the backrooms

How it works

What does liminals.space cost?

One flat price: $4.99 one-time (handled by Polar). That generates both of your rooms in full resolution plus the keepsake download. There’s no subscription and no account.

Does liminals.space store my photos?

No. There are no accounts and no database. Your photos are sent once to generate your images and are then deleted. Never saved. Everything you make lives only in your browser until you download it.

What kinds of places work best?

Empty, everyday spaces carry the most nostalgia: a childhood bedroom, a school hallway, a 90s mall, a hospital waiting room, a parking garage, an empty office, a basement, a motel room, a kitchen, or a stairwell.

See more examples

Browse a gallery of real before / after pairs — ten ordinary rooms (a bedroom, a classroom, a motel, a basement, a stairwell) rebuilt as their own backrooms.

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From the journal


“Backrooms” refers to a broad, community-created liminal-space aesthetic and is used descriptively. liminals.space is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to A24, any film, or any creator associated with “The Backrooms.”

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