Hammershøi's Sunlit Living Room, Restyled
Vilhelm Hammershøi's quiet grey Copenhagen interior from 1901, turned into a real photo, then restyled in bold interior styles it was never meant to wear.
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A walkable 3D version of this room is on its way.
Source: Vilhelm Hammershøi, Interior in Strandgade, Sunlight on the Floor, 1901. SMK – National Gallery of Denmark. Public domain (SMK Open, Public Domain Mark 1.0). The photo version and the restyles are AI-generated by Roomersive.
The painter of empty rooms
Vilhelm Hammershøi lived at Strandgade 30, in the old Christianshavn district of Copenhagen, from 1898 to 1909, and he painted its rooms again and again: bare floorboards, white doors, grey walls, a window and the light falling through it. Interior in Strandgade, Sunlight on the Floor (1901) is one of the best known. The room is nearly bare: a woman seen from behind, usually read as his wife Ida, sits by the wall, and a patch of sun lies across the floorboards.
His work has become hugely popular again, partly because it looks so much like how people want their homes to feel now: calm, uncluttered, a little melancholy. That makes it the perfect starting point for the opposite experiment.
What you're looking at
The painting belongs to SMK, the National Gallery of Denmark, which has released it into the public domain. "As a photo" turns it into a photograph of the same room. The styles after that are real restyles of that photo, made by the same AI that restyles a user's own room, and chosen to be as far from Hammershøi's restraint as possible: pattern, color, and glamour, in a room built for silence. The walls, doors and window stay exactly where he painted them.
Step inside
A walkable 3D version of this room is coming. The half of the room behind the painter's viewpoint never appears in the painting, so a model has to imagine it.