diff --git a/configs/models.yaml.example b/configs/models.yaml.example
index 1eb9663896..5187d29b3e 100644
--- a/configs/models.yaml.example
+++ b/configs/models.yaml.example
@@ -6,14 +6,24 @@
 # and the width and height of the images it
 # was trained on.
 diffusers-1.4:
-  description: Diffusers version of Stable Diffusion version 1.4
+  description: 🤗🧨 Stable Diffusion v1.4
   format: diffusers
   repo_name: CompVis/stable-diffusion-v1-4
-  default: true
 diffusers-1.5:
-  description: Diffusers version of Stable Diffusion version 1.5
+  description: 🤗🧨 Stable Diffusion v1.5
   format: diffusers
   repo_name: runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5
+  default: true
+diffusers-1.5+mse:
+  description: 🤗🧨 Stable Diffusion v1.5 + MSE-finetuned VAE
+  format: diffusers
+  repo_name: runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5
+  vae:
+    repo_name: stabilityai/sd-vae-ft-mse
+diffusers-inpainting-1.5:
+  description: 🤗🧨 inpainting for Stable Diffusion v1.5
+  format: diffusers
+  repo_name: runwayml/stable-diffusion-inpainting
 stable-diffusion-1.5:
   description: The newest Stable Diffusion version 1.5 weight file (4.27 GB)
   weights: models/ldm/stable-diffusion-v1/v1-5-pruned-emaonly.ckpt
diff --git a/ldm/invoke/model_cache.py b/ldm/invoke/model_cache.py
index 0bfbfe32be..e6f1c518f3 100644
--- a/ldm/invoke/model_cache.py
+++ b/ldm/invoke/model_cache.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ from typing import Union
 
 import torch
 import transformers
+from diffusers import AutoencoderKL
 from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
 from huggingface_hub.utils import RevisionNotFoundError
 from omegaconf import OmegaConf
@@ -337,14 +338,20 @@ class ModelCache(object):
 
         # TODO: scan weights maybe?
 
+        if 'vae' in mconfig:
+            vae = self._load_vae(mconfig['vae'])
+            pipeline_args.update(vae=vae)
+
         if self.precision == 'float16':
             print('   | Using faster float16 precision')
 
             if not isinstance(name_or_path, Path):
+                # hub has no explicit API for different data types, but the main Stable Diffusion
+                # releases set a precedent for putting float16 weights in a fp16 branch.
                 try:
                     hf_hub_download(name_or_path, "model_index.json", revision="fp16")
-                except RevisionNotFoundError as e:
-                    pass
+                except RevisionNotFoundError:
+                    pass  # no such branch, assume we should use the default.
                 else:
                     pipeline_args.update(revision="fp16")
 
@@ -362,7 +369,6 @@ class ModelCache(object):
             #     want to leave it as a separate processing node. It ends up using the same diffusers
             #     code either way, so we can table it for now.
             safety_checker=None,
-            # TODO: alternate VAE
             # TODO: local_files_only=True
             **pipeline_args
         )
@@ -535,3 +541,40 @@ class ModelCache(object):
         with open(hashpath,'w') as f:
             f.write(hash)
         return hash
+
+    def _load_vae(self, vae_config):
+        vae_args = {}
+
+        if 'repo_name' in vae_config:
+            name_or_path = vae_config['repo_name']
+        elif 'path' in vae_config:
+            name_or_path = Path(vae_config['path'])
+            if not name_or_path.is_absolute():
+                name_or_path = Path(Globals.root, name_or_path).resolve()
+        else:
+            raise ValueError("VAE config must specify either repo_name or path.")
+
+        print(f'>> Loading diffusers VAE from {name_or_path}')
+        if self.precision == 'float16':
+            print('   | Using faster float16 precision')
+
+            if not isinstance(name_or_path, Path):
+                try:
+                    hf_hub_download(name_or_path, "model_index.json", revision="fp16")
+                except RevisionNotFoundError:
+                    pass
+                else:
+                    vae_args.update(revision="fp16")
+
+            vae_args.update(torch_dtype=torch.float16)
+        else:
+            # TODO: more accurately, "using the model's default precision."
+            #     How do we find out what that is?
+            print('   | Using more accurate float32 precision')
+
+        if 'subfolder' in vae_config:
+            vae_args['subfolder'] = vae_config['subfolder']
+
+        # At some point we might need to be able to use different classes here? But for now I think
+        # all Stable Diffusion VAE are AutoencoderKL.
+        return AutoencoderKL.from_pretrained(name_or_path, **vae_args)