People In This Group Are Sharing Home Design Fails That Make You Feel Better About Your Own Home (50 Pics)
Decorating your home can be a fun experience. You can enhance its strengths, hide its weaknesses, and make it a reflection of yourself. Or you can put the toilet in the kitchen, transform the pool into a flower pot and call it a day. It's your choice. Just don't be surprised if photos of your chateau end up on the internet and people laugh their heads off.
The subreddit "Housing Manure" (sorry for butchering the name but I have to paraphrase) is a place where Redditors have been gathering to do just that. Sharing the worst design, construction, and living conditions, they've successfully proven time and time again that, for better or worse, human creativity knows no limits.
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Similar to fashion, interior trends come and go, but true style is forever. Ideas often move in cycles, often reactionarily to external influences like social change and technology. To know which trends are currently in, I contacted interior architect and lecturer of interior design at Vilnius College of Design, Judita Striukienė.
"I think nowadays eclectic solutions are on the rise; it's really popular to combine different interior design styles," Striukienė told Bored Panda. "In fact, it's quite rare to discover a place that is true to just one school. When you say a home was designed according to a certain style, you usually mean that some elements have an advantage in that place over the others or there is some sort of leitmotif throughout the entire space."
"These elements are often dictated by the urban surroundings or the owner's wants and desires, including their hobbies, favorite furniture, the art that they own, and so on."
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Some aspects of interior design, however, are more universal than others. "First and foremost, spaces have to be functional. Everything else is more or less decor, creating a certain mood," Judita Striukienė said. "Only after a designer makes the apartment or house serve the owner's lifestyle and everyday life can they start working on other things like eliminating the flaws of that particular place."
After these crucial steps, interior designers usually move to more subjective matters.
This Is Abysmal
This Monstrosity
As you can see from the pictures, there are plenty of ways to mess up the look of your home. But Judita Striukienė said it's not just the visual aesthetic that's at stake.
"Firstly, we have to mention technical mistakes—unnecessary interventions into the structure of the building. People make them due to a lack of knowledge and/or overestimating their abilities. Because of that, some real estate developers are now providing buyers with detailed lists of what they can and cannot touch."
The interior architect recalled a time when a person damaged the construction of the entire facade just because they wanted a niche in their shower!
My Eyes Hurt
Sorry but the market isn't mature yet for a stained kitchen which would never look clean
Then there are the financial mistakes. "How often people miscalculate can vary from culture to culture, but a huge investment into a property (one that will not pay off when selling it) can hurt quite a lot. For example, you can spend a small fortune on altering the floor plan but it might not add any value or, even worse, future buyers might find the changes irrational."
Judita said other common mistakes occur in the kitchen and bathroom; places where you really need to know the materials. The good thing here is that the answers are usually clear-cut and known to most industry experts.
But something tells me even they couldn't have saved some of these homes from their owners.
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Pleather Cabinets
This Apartment Design
Only good thing here is that bathroom is immediately near entry so you can run straight into it when needed :D
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AND you don’t need a dinner table, because you can serve the meals in the car. Total new concept of drive in!
Nothing better than a combination of peppered CO2 on your scrambled eggs.
Let me guess, the architect designed this right before they went into rehab. Right?
Years ago my husband and I challenged each other to design our Dream Home, we worked on graph paper. My husbands design had massive rooms, all of them were big but there was 'something' missing. It finally hit me, there were no bathrooms! Not one! So I grabbed a pencil and added a two-seater outhouse in the back yard. After we swapped papers back it took him a minute to notice my addition and he asked me what it was. I told him he forgot an important room in his house. He was scanning his rooms when it hit him. I put his bathroomless masterpiece on the fridge.
I assume they couldn't get permission to turn the garage into a kitchen so they have to call it a garage even though it's totally a normal kitchen. I hope.
Where is this? Does it get cold? I like cars, but I don’t want to park a filthy slush covered car in my kitchen.
My need to go through the bathroom to get into the living room??
Why would you even bother with a garage, engine fumes in your kitchen when you could have it as a kitchen / living room...
And it breaks fire regs! Ps why does a stupid car get more living space than the family?
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Come in come in! Don't mind my wife showering, just walk right through!
This could actually turn out really nice, if they A didn't park in their house and B added a nice island to extend the kitchen C have a couch set parked right next to the garage door window, just like a fancy restaurant they can open the gigantic window and enjoy the unblemished view and fresh air. mermain_in...57525f.jpg 
Drive-in kitchen, walk-through bathroom and courtyard smaller than your car.
Probably, no on-Street parking there. A parking spot is a major selling point in most big cities
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Look at it this way- if you sold the car and took the bus, you could have a living room!
Okay but hear me out: what if you park your car outside and just pretend the garage is a kitchen/living room?
2 things. You cant enter without making sure nobody is taking a piss, (unless that is an entrance in the garage) and every time I see "garage" I see "George" for like 5 seconds before I see "garage"
kool! food with a smell of exhaust pipe. Nothing like good ol' Co2, brings memories of industrial revolution, am i rite?
At the front door: "Yeah, come on in! I was just finishing up my Daily. Air freshener anyone?"
What if this is TWO floors, with garage, entry, and living room on the ground, and, with kitchen, bath, and bedroom upstairs?
and they own an old diesel smoking at start... good for smokey food!!
Would be easy to knock down all the inner structures and restart building walls.
The bathroom and kitchen should swap places. Then, remove the partial wall & door of the old bathroom facing the living room, and make the new kitchen kind of open-plan continuing into the living room. Of course, the new bathroom with the side facing the garage should be sealed off. 🤷♂️
Put up a wall in the garage and switch the kitchen with the bathroom. Dooone. Who did drugs designing that?
You can see this idiotic apartment in all its glory here: https://www.realestate.com.au/property/23-dickens-st-richmond-vic-3121
If you're really going to have your car as your flatmate, downright accomodate it in your bedroom.
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You’ll Want To Keep This Toilet Clean
This Carpeted Bathroom
Think This Belongs Here
We Were Looking At Houses In Baltimore This Weekend And Came Across This Gem. There Is No Mirror In The Middle, It's A Completely Symmetrical Bathroom That 2 People Can Use The Toilet In At The Same Time
Who Needs A Separate Bathroom Anyways
At Least The Sinks Are Okay
It looks like they've fitted a raised floor to sink the bath into, for that special garden pond feeling?
Step Out Of A Bathtub Down A Flight Of Stairs, Anyone?
Load Bearing Glass
Landlord Hung The Microwave, This Is As Far As It Opens Before Hitting The Wall
Martini Bathtub In A Living Room
Horrible Fridge Placement
My Friend's Under-The-Stairs "Bathroom" Where The Toilet Is Diagonal And Partially Installed Into The Carpeted Wall
How Do You F Up Designing A Garage? Like This, Apparently
As You Defecate, You Can Watch Over Your Domain
Took Care Of The Bathroom Door!
Wait, You Wanted The Water Taps *inside* The Shower?
One Closet. 6 Feet Above The Ground And No Stairs To Get To It. Why
When I was younger, I used to call any door that was inaccessible for some reason (distance in this case but also size) "Coraline Closets" because of the movie. Lol this post just made me remember that after so many years
Textured Ceilings
Effective Multitasking Space
At Least Water Will Run Away
Don’t Mind The Curb
Imagine Running Out Of Toilet Paper
Pay £1001 To Watch Your Partner Take A S**t From The Luxury Of Your Bed
You can also use the toilet simultaneously - it looks like there's room enough for two!
So Many Questions
I Hope This Isn’t Real
Go Poop In A Cabinet
It’s Either A Very Unusable Shower Or An Uncommon Urinal
Catch Basin Might Be A Little Small
Nice Tree
Saving Space
Wobble And You Do Fall Down
Lamp
Yes It Is It's Bad And Involves Houses
Boots On The Ground
Comes With An Atrium
"Everyone Watches You Poop" Housing
Excellent Bathtub Placement
What Ever The Hell This Is
Some are funny but some are clearly solutions for issues people might have. Like for example limited space
I feel like many on these are just making fun of poor people for trying to make do
No, it’s condemning greedy landlords who cram more and more people into smaller and less reasonable spaces.
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I'm not European, but there are plenty here to correct me. But I'm guessing that many of these are homes built before indoor bathrooms became considered necessities... so toilets were added to wherever there were plumbing lines... which often meant kitchens? (European in my kitchen???)
Central European here: sometimes only a room with a sink is for sale (no toilet). Like it used to be a room for the cleaning lady or a part of another appartment. Or the room for washing (back when you had to "cook" your laundry in a special stove). These rooms are sometimes sold separately and the new owner tries his best to make something useful. Not allways successfully. But the older buildings (before 1900) often had separate toilets for several appartments in the hall or the staircase. When people renovate, some make bad decisions.
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Some are funny but some are clearly solutions for issues people might have. Like for example limited space
I feel like many on these are just making fun of poor people for trying to make do
No, it’s condemning greedy landlords who cram more and more people into smaller and less reasonable spaces.
Load More Replies... I'm not European, but there are plenty here to correct me. But I'm guessing that many of these are homes built before indoor bathrooms became considered necessities... so toilets were added to wherever there were plumbing lines... which often meant kitchens? (European in my kitchen???)
Central European here: sometimes only a room with a sink is for sale (no toilet). Like it used to be a room for the cleaning lady or a part of another appartment. Or the room for washing (back when you had to "cook" your laundry in a special stove). These rooms are sometimes sold separately and the new owner tries his best to make something useful. Not allways successfully. But the older buildings (before 1900) often had separate toilets for several appartments in the hall or the staircase. When people renovate, some make bad decisions.
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