This Twitter Account Is Sharing Home Design Fails That Might Make You Feel Better About Your Own Place (35 New Pics)
If you enjoy terrible pictures shared by real estate agents or social media pages like 'Ugly Belgian Houses', you're going to love this Twitter account too.
It's called 'Cheapo Architecture' and it has all the home ideas you love to hate. Like a very sad front lawn. Or a living room that looks like a corporate office reception room.
(Sure, taste is subjective and you might actually stumble upon something you actually like, but take this account's content as a whole and I think you'll agree with its main message).
So continue scrolling and who knows, maybe these interior and exterior, let's call them, solutions will actually make you feel better about your own place.
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Yes, but why? Why would you want to do that? It looks like a freaking pair of chopsticks!
To figure out how to choose the right person for decorating your home so it wouldn't end on 'Cheapo Architecture', we contacted interior architect and lecturer of interior design at Vilnius College of Design, Judita Striukienė.
"Architects and interior designers keep up with industry trends by reading special periodicals, following their colleagues' works, taking part in various competitions as well as attending seminars and exhibitions (new technologies often spill into creative fields, so the arts can be a good ground for discoveries). Also, manufacturers often organize product introduction events that also touch on the newest tendencies," she told Bored Panda.
I've seen urban exploration videos of this place. Definitely weird. Not sure who was supposed to be their target buyer
"When choosing an architect or interior designer, people should first consider their experience and professionalism," Striukienė said. "They should also have a similar set of values and aesthetics to you—something that can be seen in their portfolios."
"And, of course, a very important aspect of these relationships is psychological character compatibility. Without it, working together can become really challenging."
All of this should then translate into a well-wishing and respectful cooperation, where everything goes smoothly. "To me, it's very important that the client allows creativity," Striukienė said.
"You often have to educate them on essential architectural and interior design factors, help them navigate their own wants and preferences, understand. These things cost energy. However, if we've established a good relationship and there's room for creative exploration, the effort is worth it."
"What you want the least is to also work as a psychologist."
See the house on the left & at the back: this house is on a steep slope. The front entrance is clearly on the other side, where the street level is close to the level of the top floor. The car garage is at the back, where the street level is much lower. The door is just a backdoor leading to a mezzanine, and usually there is an internal staircase leading to an internal mezzanine and then to the top floor. It's not an unusual layout for houses built on hillsides.
When you're settling in, oftentimes the final version of your home looks different from the initial vision. Which, according to the interior architect, isn't necessarily bad.
"That can happen due to many reasons. For example, as I already mentioned, since the client deepens their understanding of architecture and interior design, they might decide to take the project to a new direction themselves."
It's a novelty shop and restaurant in Lahijan, in the iranian Gilan Province, called Pizza Tower. Coordinates are 37.19984016362511, 50.01520654044357. The road is not mapped on google, but trust me, it's there. The photo is cropped, in the full photo the name of the restaurant is visible
what is the purpose of those lawns anyway? do kids play there or are they just meant for aesthetical reasons? seems like such a waste of space
Lawns started to show off your wealth.
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That is not representative of the majority of suburban America. Just considering that half your pics are are condo/apts shows that.
Exactly!! Very inaccurate representation. Most towns have a combination of several types of dwellings. LOTS of people have their own veggie gardens, flower gardens, several varieties of trees... people have beehives, raise a few chickens where allowed, some people have acres of lawn, some have smaller yards fully replaced with native plants. Remember that the US is huge and diverse and we vary SOO much not just from state to state, but also within our states, and even within our cities and towns.
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It's better than having rocks or gravel. I live in a neighborhood where majority has green lawn and then there are houses where they just put rocks or gravel for landscaping. I'll take green anyway!
Any pathetic attempt at lowering CO2 is still an attempt, especially given what little areas they have to work with.
All but one of these are actually multi-family units. Which is definitely a thing in England, and they all have dumb, tiny "gardens" too. Except I've seen enough pressure washing videos on YouTube to know they just lay weird red and yellow pavers over them anyways and give up on having anything green in the "garden"
It's the neighborhood take on High-Density Housing. Instead of building up, they multiplied horizontally. Both methods forfeit privacy, greenery, independence, community areas etc. So sad....
I haven't seen kids playing outside in years. Might be because they don't have a f*****g YARD!!!!!
Half of these are townhomes. Not the same as individual houses, and they’re not MEANT to have substantial yards. Whoever put this together was being willfully ignorant. The yards I’ve seen in suburban neighborhoods mostly look great. Or at least better than the dead one up there. 🙄
All the newer developments that I see have those strips of lawn and huge garages that are 3 sizes larger than the house itself.
Someone who was thinking he bought a duplex/condo, based on the realtor's photo that looked just like the one on the lower left, actually purchased the bit of green lawn between two garages. This man chose to get even by building a concrete wall that meant the destruction of the two garages, since they both were erected on his "land".
Where in Aus? They aren't like that where I am, unless you're more city outskirts area...
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Yeah I’m picking it’s to meet planning rules of local councils etc. and aesthetics as it breaks up the concrete
And for safety, privacy, noise reduction, traffic reduction, flood control, additional parking...
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Live in Arizona, rocks and cactus, desert plants, plastic grass for dog latrine.
Because three of the photos are multi-family residences which are typically rentals. And most rentals have minimal yards/landscaping.
Load More Replies... Never had a lawn. I don’t understand the purpose. Must use a lot of water.
It depends where you live as to whether or not you have to water them. In the UK we tend to let the rain do the watering and they go a bit yellow in summer when we have prolonged breaks of several days between the rain showers.
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Another common reason for a change in plans, according to Striukienė, comes from decor materials. When you have a limited budget, you might need to swap what you want with what you can actually get and that, naturally, has an impact on the end result too.
The roofline on that turret looks like mortarboard chic. It just needs a tassel.
What is even happening with that black and white interior with single amber light?! Ugh!
Fill that with tasteful furniture with accents of color, beautiful art, and lots of books and plants and it will be wonderful.
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More power to them! I gotta confess I kinda liked some of them. ( I've never been accused of good taste.) I gotta say though if built/ designed something with my money I'd do it how I wanted it. Other people's opinions wouldn't even be a factor.
On (I think) almost every post, there was a comment that's a scam. I found myself downvoting that because I've been scammed before and it's not fun
It's spammer/scammer bots. Just keep downvoting them. With 10 downvotes, they get a 24 hour block, and with constant blocks, they get removed. It's a constant battle tho, new bots pop up here all. the. time. I guess BP doesn't have a good way to prevent them.
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More power to them! I gotta confess I kinda liked some of them. ( I've never been accused of good taste.) I gotta say though if built/ designed something with my money I'd do it how I wanted it. Other people's opinions wouldn't even be a factor.
On (I think) almost every post, there was a comment that's a scam. I found myself downvoting that because I've been scammed before and it's not fun
It's spammer/scammer bots. Just keep downvoting them. With 10 downvotes, they get a 24 hour block, and with constant blocks, they get removed. It's a constant battle tho, new bots pop up here all. the. time. I guess BP doesn't have a good way to prevent them.
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