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What your rooms look like as backrooms

By Ancient Prayers · Updated June 2026

These are before-and-after examples from liminals.space: ten ordinary, everyday rooms on the left — a childhood bedroom, a school classroom, a roadside motel, a finished basement — and on the right, the eerie backrooms / liminal-space version the tool rebuilds from each one, graded onto worn VHS tape. liminals.space works from your own photos: you upload two pictures of a place you actually remember, and it returns that specific room emptied, fluorescent-wrong, and unmistakably yours — not a generic stock hallway. The pairs below are real results from that same engine, run on example rooms so you can see the transformation before you pay; your own results use the same engine and the same look. There are no accounts and no stored photos — images are processed once to generate your rooms, then deleted. One flat price, $4.99, generates both of your rooms in full resolution plus a downloadable keepsake.

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Childhood bedroom → the backrooms

Before: an everyday 1990s childhood bedroom with a curtained window, wooden dresser and patterned carpet.
before the everyday room
After: the same childhood bedroom rebuilt as the backrooms — emptied, fluorescent-lit and graded onto worn VHS tape.
after its backrooms

School classroom → the backrooms

Before: an empty 1990s elementary-school classroom with small desks, a chalkboard and fluorescent lights.
before the everyday room
After: the same classroom turned into an endless backrooms-style liminal corridor with a VHS found-footage look.
after its backrooms

'90s kitchen → the backrooms

Before: a lived-in 1990s suburban kitchen with oak cabinets, linoleum floor and a cluttered counter.
before the everyday room
After: the same kitchen reimagined as an eerie empty backrooms space, desaturated and grained like old tape.
after its backrooms

Finished basement → the backrooms

Before: a carpeted finished basement rec room with wood panelling and a low ceiling.
before the everyday room
After: the same basement rebuilt as a too-quiet backrooms space lit by buzzing fluorescents on worn VHS tape.
after its backrooms

Roadside motel → the backrooms

Before: a roadside motel room with two beds, a dated bedspread and heavy curtains.
before the everyday room
After: the same motel room rebuilt as a liminal backrooms space, emptied and washed in sickly fluorescent yellow.
after its backrooms

Formal dining room → the backrooms

Before: a formal dining room with a long table, chairs and patterned wallpaper.
before the everyday room
After: the same dining room rebuilt as an uneasy, empty backrooms version graded onto worn tape.
after its backrooms

Apartment hallway → the backrooms

Before: a narrow apartment-building hallway with numbered doors and carpet.
before the everyday room
After: the same apartment hallway rebuilt as an endless backrooms corridor under flat fluorescent light.
after its backrooms

Living room → the backrooms

Before: a suburban living room with a sofa, side table and curtained window.
before the everyday room
After: the same living room rebuilt as an empty, fluorescent-wrong backrooms space on worn VHS tape.
after its backrooms

Back stairwell → the backrooms

Before: a concrete back stairwell with metal railings and painted steps.
before the everyday room
After: the same stairwell rebuilt as a disorienting backrooms space, endless and evenly lit.
after its backrooms

Panelled bedroom → the backrooms

Before: a wood-panelled bedroom with a single bed and a small window.
before the everyday room
After: the same panelled bedroom rebuilt as its eerie backrooms version, emptied and graded onto worn tape.
after its backrooms
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How these were made

Each pair starts from an ordinary room and ends with the version your memory keeps at 3am: emptied of people, lit by even fluorescent light, the colour drained and the whole frame graded onto worn VHS tape so it reads like found footage. The tool doesn't paste a yellow filter over your photo — it rebuilds the room from the details that make it that room (the window placement, the surfaces, the proportions) and returns it wrong in the specific way liminal spaces are wrong. Read more on how it works or how to make your photos look like the backrooms.

Frequently asked questions

Are these real customer photos?
No. They are real examples from the liminals.space engine itself, run on example rooms so you can see exactly what it produces before you pay. We never store or display customer photos: your uploads are processed once to generate your images, then deleted. Your own results use the same engine and the same VHS-graded liminal look.
What will my own results look like compared to these?
The same look, built from your specific places. Each room you upload is rebuilt as its own emptied, fluorescent-wrong backrooms version on worn tape. Because yours come from places you actually remember, they read as your room rather than a generic stock hallway.
What kinds of rooms work best?
Empty, everyday spaces carry the most nostalgia: a childhood bedroom, a school hallway, a dead mall, a motel, a basement, a stairwell, a waiting room. People-free shots work best, and recent photos are fine.

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