Piped water may be one of the greatest conveniences men have come up with but there's still plenty of terrible bathroom designs. Don't get me wrong, we at Bored Panda love creativity, but putting a bunk bed over a tub isn't thinking outside the box. Heck, I wouldn't even call it thinking. As a testament to our stupidity, we have compiled a list of some of the worst bathtub and shower designs, and they're as hilarious as they're impractical.
For more crappy designs, check out our earlier Bored Panda lists full of funny photos here, here, and here.
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I Feel The Need To Tell The World Regular Faucets Are Ok
We as a society had to go through a lot of epic fails before we created today's bathroom. For centuries, people in big cities got their cooking and washing water from rivers or wells, limiting their consumption to pretty much what they could carry. They dumped their waste into brick-lined cesspits that would be emptied by the night soil men, who sometimes sold it as fertilizer. Liquid waste, on the other hand, would get thrown into gutters in the middle of the road.
There’s No Hope For Humanity. I Know That Now
The Guardian pointed out that in 1854, in the middle of a cholera epidemic in London, Dr John Snow (not to be confused with Jon Snow) mapped where victims died and found that the deaths seemed concentrated around one of those pumps, at 37 Broad Street. Interestingly, when he had the handle removed from the pump, the cholera epidemic stopped immediately. Thus, the first verifiable connection between human waste and disease was made.
Electric Showers For Everyone!
After people realized that excrement + drinking water = death, parliament passed the Metropolitan Water Act to “make provision for securing the supply to the metropolis of pure and wholesome water”. As a result, pipes delivering water directly to homes started replacing public pumps.
Attached Bath And Bedroom
The next trivial addition to this convenience was the toilet. Believe it or not, the invention had been around for a while. However, it was pretty useless without a water supply.
As it became really easy to just wash the poop away, there soon was so much fecal effluence, it started overflowing from the cesspits. The result of this design fail? Even more cholera and other diseases.
I've Always Wanted An Apartment With A Bathtub, But This Is Certainly Not What I Envisioned
Architects, engineers and homeowners of the late 19th century didn't know what to do. A lot of people had washstands in their bedrooms, so at first they just stuck sinks and taps into them, and put the toilet into whatever closet in the hall or space under the stairs that they could find, hence the “water closet.” However, it didn’t make a lot of sense to run plumbing to every bedroom when it was cheaper to bring it all to one place, and the idea of the bathroom was born.
Taking A Shower In A Hotel In China
Well you don't want to slip recklessly, you could hurt yourself. And that would be stupid.
Since the early adopters, then as now, were the rich with a few rooms to spare, they were often lavish, with all the fixtures encased in wood like the commodes they replaced. But when the bathroom became mainstream and accessible to all classes, it got smaller (cheaper to build). Around 1910, the bathroom started looking pretty much the same way it does now.
My Friend's Bathtub Handles. I-I Just.....what?
My Mom Had Her Guest Bathroom Remodeled While She Was Out Of Town. She Wanted The Shower Head Up High So Tall People Didn't Have To Crouch Or Lean Way Back. Came Home To Find This, Which Shoots The Water Straight Across To The Opposite Wall
The tall people no longer need to crouch or lean back, they just need a chair to stand on.
Someone Peaked In High School Geometry
The Shower In My Grandparents New Bathroom Is Very Nice, Except For One Small Problem...
Whatever. Shut Up And Have A Salad Next Time If You Don’t Like It
if my butt hits the wall after I have already showered, I would feel dirty.
Shower Screen Guy Thought The Toilet Waste Was For The Shower And Screened The Wrong Section. Plumber Installed The Toilet Anyway
Mother In Law’s Suite Is Finally Done!
I Cringe Every Time I Step Foot In This Shower
I Am Actually Speechless. I Mean In What Scenario Is This Required???? Fraternity Rush Week? And What Does One Store In That Prison Locker Built In?
Guest Room Shower
Booked A Hotel In Orlando Through Hotwire And They Gave Us This Room. No Partition Between The Shower, Bathtub, And Bed. I'm Traveling With My Teenage Daughter...
Calgon, Take Me Away
Shower Curtain At My Local Ymca
eye contact when naked is more awkward than the nakedness. makes sense...lol
The Controls For This Shower
Just In Case You Want A Little Brick Oven Pizza With Your Bath. Sounds Fantastic Tbh
Carpeted Stairs To Shower
I've Always Wanted To Take Bath While Eating Breakfast
The Placement Of This Bath Tub Faucet
There’s A Special Place In Hell For A Powder Room Where The Red Vessel Sink Is The Least Offensive Thing
Wanna Take A S**t? Gotta Climb Over The Tub First
I've been in a suite like this - guaranteed there is a door into the bathroom probably where the wastebin is on the let.
This Is The Room My Friend And I Got In Cuba. The Shower Wall Was A Window & You Could See Into The Entire Bathroom.. Even The Toilet
haha I stayed there too! My friend and I got to know each other on a whole new level if we didn't warn about bathroom use! The craziest thing, no one else at the resort was talking about how weird it was that we could watch each other shower and sh*t!
The Way This Curved Shower Enclosure Fits A Square Base, Causing The Floor To Flood And Requiring An Extra Drain
This Bathtub Looks Like Somebody Was Killed In It... Or Worse
Texas. What Are You Doing?
No One Is Winning This The Floor Is Lava Game
How Angry Would You Be Every Time You Walked Into This Bathroom?
My Shower Area Has A Big Window Which Forced Me To Put A Curtain There
I Got You Bro
Shower Time
Somehow I Think I’d Always Feel Dirty
Mmmm Feel That Tropical Breeze. Except This Is In Arkansas
My Shower At My Student House
Uh, that's a house for middle school students, so this one's on you, bub.
Light Switch In Hotel Shower
This Wall Design For A Shower
You May Take A Shower While Pooping
that's actually to wash ur behind while after you poop. It's really common in Mumbi (India)
These Shower Stalls Have No Doors And There's A Huge Mirror On Their Opposite Side
These Sister Wives Have Made It
This Shower In A $56 Hotel Room
My Shower Is Branded Nazi
Women’s Shower Has Company Logo At Chest Level
This Slip And Die Bathtub At A Vacation Rental House...
i've seen this kind of bathtubs for elderly people but normally they have an entrance so you don't have to "jump" in it
I Love You But I Don’t Need You All Up In My Q-Tips
Shower In My Friend's Dorm. There Are Two Showers, But Only One Entrance
Not many non-programmer understand the LIFO, or stack memory access.
Why Is There A Bath Faucet In This Shower?
The 1.5” Gap In This Norwegian Hotel Shower Door
I’ll Just Have A Quick Shower And A Bad Neck
I Can Feel That Carpet Under My Wet Toes Already
I Love To End My Day With A Hot Bath, A Little Alf On The Tube And An Ice Cold Zima. Bonus Points If You Do It Surrounded By House Wallpaper. P.s. I Had A Zima This Summer And I Didn’t Hate It
Contractor For New Condo Decides To Use Cheaper Tempered Glass Without Protective Film Instead Of Laminate Glass To Save Some Money
Well, at least it's still safety glass and doesn't break in sharp pieces.
This Bathtub In My Hotel Room
The hotel room on the opposite side of the wall likely has the shower handle kicked over to the other side of their tub. Wet-walls should be framed with at least 2x6 in these applications, precisely to avoid this kind of thing.
A Shower With No Base And A Crappy Seal + A Floor That Slopes Away From The Drain = A Metric F**kton Of Standing Water Everywhere Except The Shower
Shower While Cooking
The Shower Ceiling At This Camping Is Reflective...
There’s A Socket In My Shower
This "Shower" In My Friend's School
The Hot Water And Cold Water Handles Have Eyes You'll Never Escape From.
There’s A Light In The Shower Of My New Apartment
The Hotel I Stay Put Toilet And Shower In Same Cabinet
This Tub I Was Hired To Replace
In Spain we have a lot of tubs this size. It ofen has a seat in it for older people to shower comfortably.
The Shower Control Is Outside The Shower At My Condo
The Shower In My Hotel Room Floods The Entire Bathroom Unless I Put Towels Right Next To It
Perhaps it's for people with mobility issues. My wife and I got a room once got a room like that. The only room room available was the handicapped room.
Let's Just Put The Toilet In The Shower
You Want A Toilet In Your Shower? No Problem!
Y'all must have never heard of a "wet bath". The entire bathroom is outfitted with water-friendly materials. It's a space saving thing.
I Have A Bathtub Underneath This Power Outlet, So I'm Guessing This Is Perfect If I Ever Feel Like Having Toast
My Hotel Room Has A Towel Rack Inside The Shower
Heavy Sliding Glass Shower Door. Almost Sheared My Finger Off By Opening Quickly
Bathtub Fail
This Shower Has No Door. Water Gets All Over The Bathroom Anytime Someone Takes A Shower
Pour A Hot Bath, Let Your Hair Down, And Relax Into - Ouch, My Visual Cortex!
There Is A Window In Our Hotel That Gives Full View Of The Shower And Toilet From The Main Room With No Curtain. Why?
Metal Shower Curtain Rod That Rusts
Ekg Tile Pattern?!? I Can’t Even Get My Installer To Do Penny Round Stripes Without Complaining!
My Shower Door That Collects Water, Causing Mold
I'm tired of seeing the same images from earlier threads reused over and over and over. Lazy Pandas, just stop.
I'm tired of seeing the same images from earlier threads reused over and over and over. Lazy Pandas, just stop.
