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30 Real Estate Listings On Zillow That Were So Bad, They Went Viral On These Instagram Pages
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Whoever is responsible for carpeted bathrooms, flights of stairs leading nowhere, butterfly toilet seat covers, and other disaster design choices should be punished for such crimes. There’s plenty of proof of their misdeeds as well, since a lot of these ''wonders'' end up showcased online. Home listing sites are some of the best places to look for the creme de la creme of design atrocities.
Take a look at Zillow, for instance. It presents real estate listings, most of which might make you want to move houses straight away. However, some feature design choices that are excellent examples of what not to do in your own home. They became sources for two grand collections on Instagram—Nightmare on Zillow Street and Zillow Fails.
Bored Panda has reached out to the two accounts via Instagram. Nightmare on Zillow Street were kind enough to answer a few of our questions. Scroll down to find their thoughts below.
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#1
John Dilligaf 2 years ago
everytime I see something like this in a private home my first question is "who the hell cleans all those windows?"
Looking for a new house is not the only reason for browsing real estate listings. Sometimes it’s a great place to find home improvement ideas or vice versa—examples of things you would never do to your beloved nest.
The creator of Nightmare on Zillow Street shared with Bored Panda why they chose to post the latter type of designs on their Instagram account: “It seems to me that people are mostly interested in really bad decor choices more than the actual design of the home. It's all about the shock value! It's fun to laugh. That's what people need more of in their lives!”
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#2
Demonalisa 2 years ago
I think I found the "backrooms" comment I was looking for. ^^
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Do-nut touch da donut 2 years ago
Hmmm cozy, amazing nature veiw, creaky door... a bit expensive but ill take it 😁
Jae 2 years ago
And, here's a bonus, there's a quaint little family of spiders living in there!! You got some roommates!!
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Mickysixxx 2 years ago
Spider farms is what those things are. Kids lose intrest and they just breed redbacks
Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
They are black widow houses in the southeastern United States.
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Pieter LeGrande 2 years ago
$900 for the cubby house, $299,000 for the land. Pretty cheap for my locality.
The creative mind behind the account admitted to being addicted to Zillow and looking at homes. “Sometimes I see things that I just HAVE to share with the world. Things so bad or shocking that I can't keep it to myself.”
“It always boggles my mind that sellers don't understand the importance of putting together a place that elicits a warm, cozy atmosphere that buyers would want to invest in. And hopefully pay top dollar!” they said.
#4
Phoenix the Frog 2 years ago
I mean at least you will be blinded before they murder you
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Kaa 2 years ago
3 seconds of licking the basement carpet will give you at least 2 STDs and a psychedelic trip
Wesley Vancauwenbergh 2 years ago
But why would you lick the carpet in the first place 😁
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Cassi Lyris 2 years ago
I'm honestly impressed with how well that wallpaper's dye has held up, though.
Leolynn Cauthron 2 years ago
Unsurprising since it’s clearly been flooded.
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Sian Edwards 2 years ago (edited)
I like the idea of this wallpaper as a feature to add something to a room, but maybe not on every wall...
#5
Hawkmoon 2 years ago
Would you be tempted to buy a home that embodies bad taste in every room? Because I have an offer for you.
Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
Bad taste aside, I find I only need one kitchen per house. I would, however, love to do jumps from the bed into the tub.
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Rebecca Phillips-Partridge 2 years ago
Over indulged wife? head wound survivor? Do decorating instead of drugs?
Sadly, not everyone has an eye for detail and impeccable taste in home design. Moreover, not everyone’s ideas make as much sense in real life as they might in their heads. And these pictures are great proof of that.
That is why it might be a good idea to turn to professionals for help. Thankfully, there are nearly 44 thousand of them in the US alone, which provides hope for people willing to invest in the design of their home.
#6
Astrid the odd Astroid 2 years ago
I thought that the flower wallpaper was almost hands for a hot second!!
beardedlizard 2 years ago (edited)
whys the bath tub put in the middle of the floor diagonally???
#7
Scott Pinkham 2 years ago
One may be a bidet but I would not have to shuffle my stanky butt across a room just to wash it
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Marina Schwartz 2 years ago
Carpeting can be removed but what do you find under it rotten flooring. Have fun to the next guy
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Cassi Lyris 2 years ago
Other than the bathroom carpeting this really isn't that bad. Hopefully two people aren't using the commode and the bidet at the same time though.*awkward...
#8
Amy Watkins 2 years ago
Isn't there an episode of the D**k Van Dyke show where they buy a house with a rock like this in the basement???
Glen Ellyn 2 years ago
This was my immediate thought on seeing this image. The D.i.c.k Van Dyke Show, season 4, episode 25, "Your Home Sweet Home is My Home."
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David Houde 2 years ago
My grandparents had a boulder in their basement. They built the original house and it was fine. A few years later they put an addition on, but when they were digging the foundation they came across this massive boulder. They couldn't remove it because it was so big and they couldn't blow it up because it was so close to the existing foundation so they left it and built the "new" basement around it.
Char Panda 2 years ago
Why is the couch so small and the chair so big and the boulder in the floor and rocks on the wall......none of this computes.
Creating a cozy atmosphere is important not only for the sellers trying to allure a potential buyer. People building their home from the ground up usually also want to make it a comfortable place for them to stay. Especially considering that they spend more than half of their time awake at home.
#9
Barong 2 years ago
They’ll just call your a pager and leave a number like 58008 or something rad.
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#10
Cassi Lyris 2 years ago
I like it. Beats the pants off of minimalistic, mid century modern, everything gray and white...
PotatoGirl31 2 years ago
That's exactly what I thought the moment I saw the exterior!
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Chel Bolin 2 years ago
Hopefully after they finish updating/wiring the fuse box. But it is a fabulous old house.
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RoanTheMad 2 years ago
I see nothing wrong, just needs some TLC is all, would make a wonderful house for the kooky gothic in me x3
Cassi Lyris 2 years ago
Ok, it could use an electrical checkup but I love the rest. Could you imagine holding weddings here???
A Bobcat From Philly 2 years ago
That place is seriously cool looking... the power box? no so much!!
Nowadays it is easier for people to make decisions about certain design choices. The abundance of different tools, apps, and software allows them to see what their home might look like without having to wait for the actual paint to dry. (Using an app for some of the design features on this list before making them happen would definitely have come in handy.)
#12
Steven Bennett 2 years ago
Can't be that modern--they haven't made carpet like that since the 1970's!
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Do-nut touch da donut 2 years ago
I kinda weirdly like this... but i think id regret that pretty soon lol
bElLa sTairZz 2 years ago
can the door even open? it looks like the carpet should be blocking it
#13
N Burnette 2 years ago (edited)
I live in a u.s. state with a lot of earthquakes. So I'm thinking..... yikes!
Zenozenobee 2 years ago
Well, people that would sit here would have a view right on the bed....
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#14
Cassi Lyris 2 years ago
Where are these rich people finding this lavender carpeting? I don't want any, I'm just impressed.
TTorrest Author 2 years ago
What we've got here is a case of too much money, not enough taste.
#15
Robert T 2 years ago
Why don't you step into my bedroom and I can show you my massive organ! /j
Anna Ekberg 2 years ago (edited)
Someone bought a church and is changing it to a house to live in. You can see alot like this in Sweden, people buy old buildings like churches or old station buildings and redo them to live in. Some can be very beautiful.
JayBizzle1977 2 years ago
Softly, deftly music shall caress you Hear it, feel it secretly poseess you Open up your mind let your fantasies unwind In this darkness which you know you cannot fight The darkness of the music of the niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight....
Christos Arvanitis 2 years ago
Well, I'm sure that this is a converted church...
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Kate Jones 2 years ago
I mean...great place for a vampire I guess. You can be woken up with organ music while you open your coffin. And the window are mostly covered.
ThatOneWriter 2 years ago
NGL I've been lowkey dreaming of buying an old church or school or something and converting it into a homestead for my family
#16
Alicia Utz 2 years ago
I have a toilet like this downstairs. It's because the plumbing needed to be higher than the septic tank, otherwise there would be backflow.
Cassi Lyris 2 years ago
Ah yes, the number 1 thing I I want to deal with when I gotta go, small stairs.
Robert Larson, LPN, JD 1 year ago
Really, how did you break your leg getting "off" the toilet? No, really?
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
This is what you get when you attempt to put a bathroom in a basement: you have to build up the floor so that there's room for the drain pipes.
#17
S Mi 2 years ago
I *really* hope there is another staircase . Imagine, say hauling laundry up and down those...
Do-nut touch da donut 2 years ago
Id just toss it down... HEY CARL CATCH...carl: wha- *whack*
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liam newton-harding 2 years ago
This looks like a mansion that gets rent out... specifically...as a music studio, for album creation. Led Zeppelin used to stay at places like this when putting their albums together.
Jo Davies 2 years ago
Not with windows like that. The height would be perfect for acoustic but those windows let's in noise like wind, rain, cars, birds, etc.
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StretcherBearer 2 years ago
Most likely portable sound proof panels or gobos
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John Fiore 2 years ago
By the time I get to the Bedroom I will be so tired of climbing those stairs I'd probably pass out before I get to the bed and just sleep on the Floor
#18
CalicoKitty 2 years ago
Not awful, but why did they quilt the mirror? Where do you even by a floor-to-ceiling quilted mirror?
#19
Brooke Weber 2 years ago
They wasted so much potential on the inside. It's a sad wannabe castle
TTorrest Author 2 years ago
Only if you promise to leave that couch behind the glass block.
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Kelsey Taylor 2 years ago
Pretty sure this is in Marquette, Michigan. Listed for close to $1 million. That glass brick is actually the shower. No door. Just a spiral of glass in the middle of a room
#20
Lisa H 2 years ago
This sounds about right for Oakland. Nothing is cheap in the Bay Area.
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David 2 years ago
Sadly they may actually get that price. I just used google maps to see addresses on either side / type them into zillow and it appears everything there is pretty expensive. Two houses in one direction sold for 775K and 1.2 M and a visibly smaller house a couple doors down in the other direction went for over 700k. Not even a pretty area. You zoom way out and it is just block after block after block of houses.
#21
TheAnxiousDuck 2 years ago
On the plus side, the second one would be great for playing the floor is lava.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Not digging the carpet. Bathroom looks interesting though.
#22
Erin Fish 2 years ago
Am I the only one who finds the cane railing spooky? Definitely stolen from the original owner's murder victims.
Shelly Graham 2 years ago
The fireplace stonework looks like a face, complete with an eyebrow, nose & mouth. Very creepy!
#23
Do-nut touch da donut 2 years ago
I dont touch that part of the handle anyways... also i luv the dude just staring out the window lol
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Trophy Husband 2 years ago
This may be a code issue. Bannister must be between x and y inches above stair, and with the corner they couldn't get a slant to work.
Rhu Johnson 2 years ago
With a question like that the person to ask is someone who would need to use the handrails going up and down stairs. Those things are supposed to be functional first and foremost.
A P 2 years ago (edited)
Usually, yes, and would also eliminate the maybe code issue since they'd have a longer span for the corner piece.
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Ok, so, they cut the angle wrong and either didn't want to redo it or were out of wood, or the dinguses assembled it using up all the wood and are *tthhhiiiiisss close to dad telling them not to come back to the work site...again...
kdavis2384 2 years ago
Men must not understand what women with hips have to go thru. Id hit that corner EVER single time RIGHT ON my hip bone
#24
BeepBeepBoopBoop 2 years ago
I don't think I could. I hate the texture of brick, and it's next to the stairs
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The stairs would be a pain for me, but otherwise I love it. Sign me up! I'm sick of cookie cutter boxes painted gray.
#25
Paulo Freitas 2 years ago
Bunker, i like it, and want it ( no Im not a zombie Apocalypse believer, i like them because they are incredibly silent and no One annoys you )
Do-nut touch da donut 2 years ago
Yes. Plus i need a bunker to protect my donuts😁🍩
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This is likely a prefab tube house in Hawaii. It's also not bad. Of course if I had a rounded house I'd probably Hobbit it up. I wouldn't try to retrofit 90° angled off the shelf stuff if I could help it.
Whiskey Tango Delicious 2 years ago
Undoubtedly a bunker/bomb shelter. Rations and canteens. A vault to hold your apocalyptic arsenal, in it for the long haul
#26
AndThenICommented 2 years ago
I mean, Im the right apartment, I don’t hate the kitchen…but then they tried to blend it with the rest of the house and …..
Beth Baker 2 years ago
I like everything except the thing in the corner. Especially love that they left all that wood
#28
Cassi Lyris 2 years ago
Well, I like the outside, and once again I support home owners treating their home like it's theirs.
Steven Bennett 2 years ago
The pool area is perfectly designed if you live in a desert clumate--many friends in Arizona with yards like this. Don't care for the decor, but the structure of the house itself isn't bad, from what I can see.
#29
Sarah Grace Bennett 2 years ago
I get more of a vibe of "I am friends with all the birds in the neighborhood and they heed my bidding"
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Steven Bennett 2 years ago
Not really getting the murder house vibes; to me it looks like a restaurant or store of some kind that got converted into a private dwelling.
Kate Jones 2 years ago
A lot of houses in the Caribbean look like this. They're painted brightly. My judgement is held back until we find out where it is. If it's in the US and not directly in Miami or something, this person should be fined for hurting my eyes.
A P 2 years ago
Apparently Oregon, so about as opposite the carribean as you can get. Though I could see why people at the coast up there might want to try and brighten things up
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Cyber Returns 2 years ago
It used to be a day care until it was closed down after all the deaths. Momma Murphy never came out of that prison
#30
Lord Mysticlaw 2 years ago
I mean it's not the house's fault nobody tidied it. The house itself is fine.
Fluffy Feline Fire Hazard 2 years ago
What did I immediately think of when I looked at this? Looks like a house that was recently bought by three rich, sexist, racist, homophobic, redneck white boys who are best friends and now living on their own. They bought this house and have been living here for six days and are currently drunk and are about to be broke because they're spending all of their money gambling right now. They are never going to get jobs and are probably going to die in 2-3 days because they are driving while drunk af...
Maya Delpit 1 year ago
Funny cuz I see the same thing except they're our future congressmen
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#32
Mary Hiers 2 years ago
"Stan, I need to go photograph a house we're selling. Give my your absolute WORST camera."
RoanTheMad 2 years ago
the main problem I see here is that this was taken on a camera from the last century
Cassi Lyris 2 years ago
Ok, nasty dirty, BUT, that sink is cool AF and you can't tell me otherwise.
#33
Do-nut touch da donut 2 years ago
Im still tryna process that these pics belong to one house...
Cassi Lyris 2 years ago
Oh... I think I have a few ideas what happened here. Probably mold after a flood. So, this isn't a "design" problem.
#34
Aria Whitaker 2 years ago
Right...and my lungs are seizing up just LOOKING at all that mold everywhere! No thank you!
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Do-nut touch da donut 2 years ago
Perfect ive been looking for a new warehouse... plus its disguised 😈🍩
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
The layout of the inside of the house does not match the outside of the house and I am very confused....
#35
Suzy Creamcheese 2 years ago
Looks like it's been empty for a long time. The caretakers just dealt with the exterior and let the interior go to pot.
#36
OnAFreakingRollercoaster 2 years ago (edited)
What's the problem wit this one 🤔 oh I get it the sink ain't centered below window. I could live with that
Biofish23 2 years ago
This would bother me so much more than the ones with all the crazy decor. This is harder to fix than crazy paint or gross old carpet. It also shows a lock of attention to detail by the builder which would make me worry about what else they did 'almost' right.
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SleepSycho 1 year ago
I'd just put a plant next to sink, center it with asymmetry, drive ocd guests nuts as bonus 👍
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SealOfDisapproval 2 years ago
Some of these are simple paint & wallpaper -jobs. Some are... something else entirely.
pug nose curly tail 2 years ago
I was going to say the same - so a lot need to be updated and... ?
Load More Replies... Cassi Lyris 2 years ago
So honestly I'd rather tackle repainting a few of these than looking at another white and gray house with barn doors hung everywhere...
Collin Lyle 2 years ago
As an Interior Designer, these photos cause physical pain to my nervous system!
Joshua Ortiz 2 years ago
I'll take one of these over the boring modular housing you see everywhere nowadays.
Rahela Black 2 years ago
If they changed out the paint colors, wallpaper, and/or carpeting on some of these, then I'd buy them.
Mallory McCartney 2 years ago
A lot of the issues with these are the choices of furniture and decorations instead of architecture problems.
SealOfDisapproval 2 years ago
Some of these are simple paint & wallpaper -jobs. Some are... something else entirely.
pug nose curly tail 2 years ago
I was going to say the same - so a lot need to be updated and... ?
Load More Replies... Cassi Lyris 2 years ago
So honestly I'd rather tackle repainting a few of these than looking at another white and gray house with barn doors hung everywhere...
Collin Lyle 2 years ago
As an Interior Designer, these photos cause physical pain to my nervous system!
Joshua Ortiz 2 years ago
I'll take one of these over the boring modular housing you see everywhere nowadays.
Rahela Black 2 years ago
If they changed out the paint colors, wallpaper, and/or carpeting on some of these, then I'd buy them.
Mallory McCartney 2 years ago
A lot of the issues with these are the choices of furniture and decorations instead of architecture problems.
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