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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Does This Count?
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."
“Congrats To The Neighbor Below For The New Chandelier”
Instant Insulation, Just Add Manual Labor
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.
2nd Floor Jacuzzi Anyone?
This Is A Terrible Idea
Pleather Cabinets
This Apartment Design
Interesting Staircase Solution For Narrow Houses
Welcome to Brazilian engineering. Rules: There are no rules.
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
This type of stairs is space saver (steep). That said, I forgot about the last step on my normal stairs yesterday and got wrecked, I can't imagine surviving with steps like these.
Normally you would have it protruding on one side, then the other, not both and then middle. That would work. This doesn't.
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Only your first step matters. If you place your first step properly the following come naturally. You don't have to think about it, your feet instinctively do the right thing. If you do the first step wrong, you fall and break your neck and don't have to worry about stairs for a long time.
I would die. I get dizzy enough on regular stairs. If my husband ever gets these installed that is his murder weapon of choice. Inform the police. It was NOT an accident
Not just drunk—-imagine trying to walk up or down these stairs in the dark! I mean, it would be one thing if the steps were deep, but they’re so shallow, the curves just steal foot space. I live in an old house, with stairs that must’ve been built for someone with a size 4 shoe, but at least each step is straight and not curved (with the curve being like size 4, size 1, size 4, size 1, size 4).
Actually the curves are meant to add foot space, not steal it. The stair is abrupt because of the door below limiting its angle. The narrower areas on the steps are their real width. The larger areas are where the boards on them extend over their edges to add more foot space and they are purposefully placed in that alternate pattern to allow you safe stepping from one foot to another - as long as you use the correct foot. We have such a stair in my parents' house and I can assure you it is very safe. No one ever fell on it - and we had even kids running up and down it, time and again. 😉
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"Well officer, my wife kept nagging me to fix the stairs; I hate being nagged....."
Those kind of stares are designed to be extra steep for small spaces so that stairs can overlap. Cheaper than spirals and only 1000% more dangerous.
I would always need to have my cell phone and my medical identification handy in this house.
For some reason I think of the lego double decker couch, only this is stairs
Building codes would forbid this. You should not have to think when you're going up or down stairs.
Actually this kind of design is used for a reason: a staircase needs a certain amount of space in order to have a comfortable angle for safe use. Otherwise, if the space is not enough, like it seems to be the case here because of the door below, then the stair will end up too abrupt and with the steps either too narrow to accommodate feet, or - if you try to give them more width - they become too tall for comfort and safe use. This is a solution. The alternating width allows you to step safely, as long as you use the correct foot. So on these stairs, in order to be able to use the handrail too, you will start with your left foot and then climb down using at each step the larger area. It's actually very safe - a lot safer than having to go down on a quite abrupt staircase with narrow steps. I know this because my Dad used to be a carpenter and he built such a stair himself in their home. Never had problems using it.
It's hopscotch steps: 2 feet then hop on 1 foot, repeat. Until your ankles hit those curves. and when you get to the bottom there isn't enough room for your feet at all. I guess it looked cool on the blueprints.
I think they were meant to go on the wall at one time but the cat died..
If you bum bumped your way downstairs, you would only hit every second step! Does this help? ( Sarcasm intended)
Which A-hole put a plastic bag on one of the bottom most steps?! Just what it needs, more obstacles
If you look at it, it's horrible, but if you think about it, you walk one foot and then the other, and it would probably work out great?
Until you start down on the wrong foot, fall, and break your neck.
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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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