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liminals.space turns your own photos of real, everyday places into personal backrooms-style liminal-space images. Your childhood bedroom, school hallway, old mall, rebuilt as their eerie, half-remembered version. These are the questions people ask most before they start.

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What is liminals.space?
A web app that takes your own photos of places you know (a childhood bedroom, a school hallway, an old mall, a hospital waiting room) and rebuilds each one as its eerie, empty, backrooms-style liminal-space version. The AI keeps your actual layout and lighting, so the result is unmistakably your place, not a generic AI hallway. You also get a 3D step-inside viewer, a VHS-style video, and a downloadable keepsake. No account, no subscription, and your photos are never stored. See how it works for the full process.
How much does it cost?
Your first 2 rooms are always free in lower resolution. A one-time payment (processed securely via Paddle) unlocks the rest of your rooms in full quality plus the 3D viewer, VHS video, and keepsake download. No subscription. No account. You pay once, you get everything from that session. An optional higher tier removes watermarks and music from the video for clean posting.
What exactly is free?
The first 2 rooms you generate are delivered free, in lower resolution, with a watermark. That is enough to see whether the AI genuinely reads your place before you decide to unlock the rest. If the result looks right, unlock everything with the one-time payment. If it does not, you have lost nothing.
Do you store my photos?
No. Your photos are processed once to generate your images and then deleted immediately. Nothing is saved to any database. No one else ever sees your rooms. liminals.space holds no copy of your original uploads or the generated images after your session ends. Everything lives in your browser until you choose to download it.
Do I need to be in the photos?
No, and people-free shots work better. The room itself is the subject. Empty frames let the AI read the architecture, textures, and light without working around faces or figures. Recent photos are completely fine; the tool handles the eerie, timeless quality on its own.
How many photos do I need, and what formats are accepted?
You need at least 4 photos and can upload up to 6. Multiple angles of the same place produce richer, more consistent results. Standard formats (JPEG, PNG, WebP) are all accepted. Phone camera shots are fine. You do not need professional photography or any special gear.
What do I get when I pay?
The one-time payment unlocks:
  • All remaining rooms in full resolution, watermark-free
  • The 3D step-inside viewer: walk through one room in your browser
  • A VHS-style nostalgia video drifting through your generated space
  • A downloadable keepsake (PDF and ZIP containing everything)
An optional higher tier also delivers a clean video (no overlaid music, no watermark) suitable for posting directly to social platforms.
What is the 3D step-inside viewer?
It wraps one of your generated rooms into a navigable 3D environment that runs directly in the browser. No app to download, no headset needed. You move through the space and look around the way you might half-remember doing in a dream. It is the closest thing to actually standing back inside the place.
What is the VHS video?
A short clip that drifts through your generated rooms with a VHS-era visual treatment: scan lines, colour bleed, that early-90s tape degradation that makes old home footage feel both warm and unsettling at the same time. It is included in your keepsake download. The optional higher tier delivers a clean version without overlaid music or watermark, so you can post it as-is or add your own audio.
Which places work best?
Anywhere human absence is the point: childhood bedrooms, school hallways after the last bell, old malls, hospital waiting rooms, indoor pools, parking garages, empty offices. Anywhere you spent time that now feels slightly wrong when you try to picture it. The more specific and personal the place, the more the result lands. Generic-looking rooms still work (the AI finds the uncanny in them) but the places you actually remember hit harder.
Is liminals.space affiliated with the backrooms movie or A24?
No. liminals.space is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to A24, any film, or any creator associated with "The Backrooms." The word "backrooms" describes a broad, community-created liminal-space aesthetic and is used here in that descriptive sense only.
How do I get a refund or contact you?
Email keon.me@gmail.com. If your generated output did not render correctly or you have a problem with your purchase, include your order details and a description of the issue. We will sort it out.

Still not sure what to expect? The hub page walks through the idea from the beginning, and how it works covers the full step-by-step process.

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