liminals.space takes your own photos of real, everyday places (a childhood bedroom, a school corridor, a dead
mall) and rebuilds each one as its eerie, empty, half-remembered version. You upload, the AI rebuilds,
you see 2 rooms free, then unlock the rest in full quality with a one-time payment. No account. No
subscription. Your photos are deleted once the images generate.
4 photos · see 2 rooms free · no account · your photos aren't saved.
Step 1: Upload your photos
Start by finding 4 to 6 photos of places you actually remember: the bedroom you grew up in,
the school hallway you walked every morning, the parking garage your parents used, the hospital waiting room
that smelled of industrial carpet. Real places work best. Invented scenes don't, because the AI is rebuilding
your memory, not generating a random environment.
A few things that help the output land:
People-free shots. The room is the subject, not the occasion. A birthday photo where the room is in the background won't rebuild as cleanly as a shot where the room fills the frame. Empty or near-empty shots of the space itself give the AI the most to work with.
Recent photos are fine. You don't need archive scans from the 90s. The AI doesn't date-match; it handles the timeless, slightly-wrong quality of the backrooms aesthetic regardless of when the photo was taken.
Daylight or artificial light, both work. Interior shots with visible light sources (a window, a ceiling fixture, a lamp) tend to produce the most atmospheric results, because the AI has something to reinterpret as that characteristic fluorescent hum.
Formats. JPEG and PNG are both accepted. Phone photos are fine. You don't need a DSLR or anything staged.
The minimum is 4 photos; the maximum is 6 per session. You can run multiple sessions for different places.
Step 2: The AI rebuild
Once you upload, the AI processes each photo individually. It doesn't apply a filter. What it actually does is
read the geometry of your space: where the walls meet, where the ceiling sits, how the floor plane
runs. Then it rebuilds the room in the visual language of the backrooms: slightly too much yellow, carpet
that no one installed on purpose, lighting that has no obvious source, proportions that feel stretched just
enough to be wrong.
Crucially, it keeps your layout. The door is still where your door was. The corner is still
your corner. That's what separates this from a backrooms image generator: those make a hallway. This makes
your hallway.
Processing takes a short time per photo. You'll see results appear as each room finishes, so you don't wait for
all of them before seeing the first.
Step 3: See 2 rooms free
The first two rooms that generate are free to view, in lower resolution. This lets you see whether the output
matches what you had in mind before committing anything.
The lower resolution on the free preview is honest: it's there so the preview is genuinely useful. You can
see the result, judge the quality, and decide, while the full-resolution versions stay behind the unlock.
If the AI has caught the feeling of the place, you'll know from the preview.
Step 4: Unlock the rest
A one-time payment (no subscription, no account required) unlocks everything:
All your rooms in full resolution, including the ones you already saw in preview.
The 3D step-inside viewer. One of your rooms becomes a navigable 3D space you can move through in your browser. It runs entirely in-browser, no app to install.
The VHS-style nostalgia video. A short video that drifts through your rooms with the visual grain and colour bleed of found footage from the era you associate with these spaces.
A downloadable keepsake: a PDF and a zip of your full-resolution images, formatted so they work as prints, phone wallpapers, or posts.
The optional clean tier
There's also a higher tier that removes the watermark and the ambient soundtrack from the VHS video, leaving
clean files ready for posting or sharing without attribution. If you want the output to stand on its own, no
branding, no music you didn't choose, that tier is for you.
4 photos minimum · 2 rooms free to preview · one-time payment to unlock.
Privacy: the part that matters
Your photos are of places you remember. That's personal. Here's exactly what happens to them:
No account, no database. You don't sign up. There is no profile attached to your session.
Photos are processed once, then deleted. They're sent to generate your rooms and then removed from the server. They are never stored, never indexed, never seen by anyone else.
Everything lives in your browser. Your generated images and the 3D viewer all run client-side. When you close the tab, they're gone unless you download them.
Payments via Paddle. Paddle acts as the Merchant of Record, which means your payment data is handled by them directly. liminals.space never sees your card details.
If you want to keep your rooms, download them before closing the tab. There's no account to log back into, and
nothing is saved on the server.
Common questions
Can I use photos of more than one place?
Yes. Each session handles up to 6 photos, and they don't have to be from the same place. You could mix a childhood bedroom with a school hallway if you want both rebuilt. For longer projects, run multiple sessions.
What if the free preview doesn't look right?
The quality of the output depends on the quality of the source photo. A blurry, backlit, crowd-filled shot gives the AI less to work with than a clear, room-filling, people-free one. If the preview misses, try a better photo of the same space before unlocking.
Does the 3D viewer work on mobile?
Yes. The 3D step-inside experience is browser-based and runs on modern mobile browsers as well as desktop, with no app download or WebVR headset required.
Is this a subscription?
No. The unlock is a one-time payment for that session. There are no recurring charges, no membership tiers that auto-renew, and no account to cancel.