Walk Into Van Gogh's Bedroom
Van Gogh's Bedroom in Arles, turned into a real photo, restyled in new interior styles, and rebuilt as a 3D room you can walk through.
Step inside Van Gogh's bedroom
Walk into Van Gogh's bedroom.
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Source: Vincent van Gogh, The Bedroom, 1889. The Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection. Public domain (artic.edu CC0; reproduction via Wikimedia Commons / Google Art Project). The photo version and the restyles are AI-generated by Roomersive.
The room behind the painting
In 1888 Vincent van Gogh rented four rooms in the Yellow House on Place Lamartine in Arles, in the south of France, and painted his own bedroom. He wanted the picture to feel restful. The flat, bright colors were meant to suggest sleep, and he described the walls as a pale violet. Much of the blue you see today is red pigment that has faded over time.
He painted the room three times. The first version, from October 1888, is at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. After it was damaged by damp, he made two copies in 1889: one now at the Art Institute of Chicago (the version used here) and a smaller one at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
What you're looking at
The demo above starts from the Chicago painting, and the looks come in two kinds.
The first looks keep Van Gogh's hand: the same room, painted in a different interior style, brushstrokes and all. These were made specially for this page with a more powerful image model, so they're an artwork experiment, not what the product does to your photo.
"As a photo" shows the room as it might have looked through a camera, with the same bed, chairs, washstand and window. Every look after that is a real restyle of that photo, made by exactly the same AI that restyles a user's own room: the layout, window and furniture stay put, and the materials, colors and finishes change.
The 3D room is generated from a single image. Walk toward the window and look back at the bed. Anything the painting never showed, like the wall behind you, is the model's best guess.
Why this room
People have wanted to stand inside this painting for a long time. In 2016 the Art Institute of Chicago built a life-size copy of the room and listed it for rent on Airbnb, and the dates filled within minutes. One photo is now enough to do a version of the same thing.