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liminals.space is a tool that turns your own photos of real, everyday places into your personal eerie backrooms: a 3D step-inside viewer, a VHS-style video, and a downloadable keepsake. It was built by Ancient Prayers, an electronic musician, because he wanted that experience himself and nothing like it existed.
4 photos · see 2 rooms free · no account · your photos aren't saved.
It started with the obvious feeling most people get after encountering liminal-space content: the image of an empty school hallway or a shuttered mall feels uncanny, but what really stops you is the thought: what would the places I actually remember look like, rebuilt this way?
Generic backrooms generators answer that question with a hallway from nowhere. They produce something technically eerie and completely impersonal. The places you grew up in (your childhood bedroom, the fluorescent corridor of the hospital your mum was in, the parking garage where you learned to drive) have their own specific geometry and light. That specificity is what makes a liminal image land. Your brain recognises the shape.
So the tool starts from your photos. Your actual uploaded images of real places, not a text prompt or a genre template. It keeps the layout, the proportions, the particular colour of the light. What comes back is yours in a way that a generic hallway never is.
My name is Ancient Prayers. I make electronic music, the kind that lives in that same half-remembered, low-light frequency as liminal spaces. You can hear it on Bandcamp.
I built liminals.space as a solo project because the experience I wanted (seeing a real place from my own life rebuilt as its eerie, 3am version) didn't exist anywhere. I'm not a research lab or a startup, just someone who cares about this aesthetic enough to spend a lot of time getting the tone right.
The music in the app is mine. Paying for the full experience also supports an independent musician's work. That felt like the right relationship between the two things.
If you want to hear what the project sounds like outside the app, the Ancient Prayers Bandcamp is the place to go.
liminals.space never stores your photos. Not temporarily in a database somewhere, not in a queue for review, not as training data. Your images are processed to generate the outputs and then deleted. The results live in your browser until you download them.
This is a principled decision, not only a legal one. The places you're uploading are personal. Your childhood bedroom, your dead mall, the hospital corridor: they carry weight. Holding onto them after the job is done would be wrong, and I didn't want to build something that required justifying that to myself.
Keeping costs low also reinforces the principle: no storage means no growing database to maintain, no risk of breach, no temptation to use your images for anything else. The system is simpler and more trustworthy because of what it doesn't do.
Read the full privacy policy if you want the specifics. The short version: your photos go in, your backrooms come out, nothing else is kept.
Upload at least four photos of a real place (empty shots with no people work best, and recent photos are completely fine). The tool rebuilds each room as its liminal version. Your first two rooms come back free, in lower resolution, so you can see whether it works before committing to anything.
A one-time payment gets you the rest: full-quality images of every room, a 3D step-inside viewer, a VHS-style nostalgia video set to the soundtrack, and a downloadable keepsake (PDF and zip). There's also an optional higher tier that removes the watermark and music if you want clean assets for posting. No account required. No subscription. Pay once, download everything.
Payments go through Paddle. The transaction is between you and the payment processor; liminals.space doesn't hold any card details.
"Backrooms" and "liminal space" are community aesthetics with years of creative history across forums, image boards, YouTube, and beyond. They belong to no single person or property. liminals.space uses those terms descriptively, the same way anyone discussing the aesthetic does.
This project has no connection to any film, studio, or filmmaker working in this space. No endorsement is implied or intended. The footer on every page says this plainly, and it's worth saying plainly here too: the experience you get on liminals.space is its own thing, built from the ground up.
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