50 Times Common Sense Went Over The Heads Of These Interior Designers
Good design is about finding the delicate yet pleasing balance between form and function. Though a lot depends on what you want to get done, a good rule of thumb is to keep your designs simple, so that they’re easily understood, practical, and aesthetic. But some people throw the rulebook out the window into the dumpster. And then they wing it.
Even though bad home interior designs are something you should practice social distancing from, you can’t deny that they can be hilarious… as long as it’s not your home we’re talking about! Bored Panda wanted to make you laugh and feel better about having to stay in your lovely home during the lockdown, so we’re bringing you the funniest, most facepalm-worthy interior design fails that prove common sense is actually quite rare.
Are you in the mood for some more horrendous examples of design? Well, once you’re done scrolling through this list and upvoting your fave horrible design pics, we invite you to check out earlier posts about design fails here, here, and here.
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Steps That You Can't See
person - i want something that aways keeps me on my toes . interior designer-i got you
My Uncle's House Got A Bathroom Without A Door, Literally The First Thing You See When You Enter The House
Designer Dieter Rams is one of the world’s brightest experts when it comes to design that’s done well. Back in the 1970s, he said that the world was full of “an impenetrable confusion of forms, colors, and noises” and then went on to create his 10 principles for good design. In our opinion, he expressed timeless rules that are as important now as they were back then.
For Rams, good design has to be innovative but also useful. It can’t sacrifice form or function for one or the other: it has to be a blend of both. If a product is self-explanatory, even better! That goes for designs everywhere—if something is over-designed, it can create confusion.
My Friend's Under-The-Stairs "Bathroom" Where The Toilet Is Diagonal And Partially Installed Into The Carpeted Wall
Similarly, Rams argues that good design is honest, long-lasting, friendly to the environment, has a shelf life longer than current trends, and does away with non-essentials. In short, aim for purity. Show the essence of the design. Do away with what’s unnecessary. More is less.
However, we’re not the only ones who think that bad designs can be a lot of fun (and not just a warning about what to avoid doing). The founders of the Ugly Design Instagram page, Jonas Nyffenegger and Sébastien Mathys, told Bored Panda in an earlier interview that bad designs jump out at people from the screen and grab their attention.
What’s more, atrocious designs also keep on surprising people. Just when you think you’ve reached the bottom of the (Un)Aesthetic Abyss, you realize that it was just the tip of the Iceberg of Bad Taste. What’s more, the founders pointed out that the world would be a very boring place if everything looked tasteful and nice.
I Almost Fell Down And Rolled My Ankle On This
My Parents Have A Bathroom With Carpet That Goes Up The Bathtub Walls. Bonus Points For The Terrible Wallpaper
It's Not A Mirror, It's A Doorway
A Shower Designed To Be As Hard To Stand In As Possible
Lemme just cling to this rock like a derpmaid while water runs over my body
This Single Square Inch Of Raised Carpet Complete With Lining
Prayers For The Contractor Who Had To Call These Homeowners And Explain They Needed A Second Set Of Front Doors Because. Math
Today My Mom Hit Her Toe With This And Was Bleeding. I Hate This Kitchen So Much
Social Distancing Looking A Lot Like Being Married For 10+ Years
This Staircase Bathroom
Why: 1. They Put In A Sliding Door To A Bedroom. 2. They Placed Curtains On The Outside Of It. 3. They Also Placed The Lock On The Outside
This Entire Kitchenβs Counters And Backsplash Are Covered With This βFaux Moldβ Tile
Imagine Being A Firefighter And Entering A Dark Smoke-Filled House From The Outside Through This Window
My Grandmaβs Bathroom
I bought a used mobile home with the garden tub carpeted exactly like this. They attached the carpet with a staple gun and 49,000 staples. Took me forever to get them all out and toss the nasty carpet.
The Bathroom Door Of The New Place My Girlfriend And I Just Moved Into. I Was Sat At The Dining Table When I Took This
That's clearly an exterior door on that bathroom, it even has a deadbolt lock!
Clean Entrance
This looks practical for farmhouses and the like for a back door, walk in, wash off all the mud, keep moving. It is like next level mud room.
The Raised Cutout Of This Ceiling Doesnβt Allow The Fan To Suck In Any Air
How Would Any Of This Work
It's a horrible design, but it will work. steam doesn't care if something is perpendicular or what
Creativity
Why is the toilet diagonal? Have fun sitting there with that corner digging into your leg.
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I'm having a Fight-or-Flight instinct just looking at these terrible designs from Hell.
haha - same.
Please do not confuse the work of professional designers with anything on this list.
There's nothing professional in these designs.
Its work done by contractors as requested by someone who's never been told that their ideas are bad ones.
Yeah, these weren't done by professionals. Almost certain to be DIY homeowners or unlicenced fly-by-night renovation contractors.
I was about to say the same thing. A lot of these seemed improvised and I'm sure we all know people who think they can design or diy things in their homes without consulting a specialist. Well these could very well be some examples of people who thought they were able but were wrong
The best part of this article may have been the comments. Pandas on fire today
I'd say half of these designs are trying to kill someone XD
I can tell that many of these homes are haunted with a crappy design like that.
Meeow love
yonnalopez love
After looking at all these tiny little mistakes that others have in their homes I will no longer look at my few lop-sided light switches with the same dislike.
A lot of these fit under the rubric "Why you should never decorate your home while on LSD."
I saw one where it was one of those spinning doors for like hotels or casinos and the family of four would get on their side and water would pour down the middle. One section leads to all their rooms and the final one would lead to the actual bathroom.
Some of these designs are actually really cool and creative.
Nightmares tonight then.
So many of these are disgusting
I'm so perturbed
My puzzler is puzzled. π€π€π€
I found this so depressing i could look past #27--yes, some were fuinny, but most were evidence of truly thoughtless, stupid design. God help whoever has to live with these things. Awful!!!
Irene Carlyle follower
I scrolled through all of these with my jaw dropped.
Why type of minds could make these designs! Half of them will injure or kill you!
23AClark ?
Enough. And this represents the efforts of that portion of humanity that can still supposedly function? Game over.
Enough. And this represents that portion of humanity that can still read, write and function to some degree. Game over.
All of the is clearly un-permitted diy βworkβ.
haha great comments!!
M Dream haha
M Dream love
My grandpa was a general contractor back in the 50sthrough the 80s, and he built a ton of homes with carpeted bathrooms. I'll never understand why.
Seeing this was freaking painful. My whole body and soul are aching.
What's the idea of having all the steps in bathrooms? Steps have always been my nemesis so those "designs" really stand out to me. It's obvious no one has even considered the possibility of not being able to climb or descend those steps due to an infirmity sometime in their future. Having spent months wearing an immobilizer cast while confined to a wheelchair and later on a walker, those bathrooms give me nightmares.
I want to know what's up with all the stairs in the bathrooms. Like, what's under them that they had to make the toilet up on stairs? How crazy is that plumbing....
Drains need to drop 1/4 per foot slope to drain properly. They may be on ground floor or concrete and would be pretty hard to be able to achieve the proper drain slope and be able to get the water supply to it. May not be crazy plumbing but can get VERY expensive and complex depending on what's existing. Someone decided this was the best option.. somehow lol
Upvoted. Why would someone down vote your comment?
No thanks
I am laughing so hard at this whole series of unfortunate events that I am crying. This has been the highlight of my day! :)
Many of these look just like a misclick in Sims. :D
I feel violated!
Upvoted. Why would someone down vote your comment?
I think BP is clickbaiting us with this title. These are not professional designs
I better be f*****g high, because Trump supporters did not just storm the f*****g Capitol building and disrupt the vote count.
I think I got eye cancer just by looking to this post.
Upvoted. Why would someone down vote your comment?
Looks like a lot of these were made after the fact. Making a separate suite so another bathroom was added, or altering a older kitchen. Still, a good designer would have been money well spent to avoid these eye sores. But they will always be a conversation starter!
I dont think most of these were done by a designer
Years ago I worked for a moving company. We moved the first family into a new Townhouse development. The homes were designed so that nothing larger than a double bed could be moved upstairs to the bedrooms. Twisty stairs with enclosed overhangs and windows too small to get anything in from the outside. We tried everything we could think of. They were not happy.
Chich love
I'm having a Fight-or-Flight instinct just looking at these terrible designs from Hell.
haha - same.
Please do not confuse the work of professional designers with anything on this list.
There's nothing professional in these designs.
Its work done by contractors as requested by someone who's never been told that their ideas are bad ones.
Yeah, these weren't done by professionals. Almost certain to be DIY homeowners or unlicenced fly-by-night renovation contractors.
I was about to say the same thing. A lot of these seemed improvised and I'm sure we all know people who think they can design or diy things in their homes without consulting a specialist. Well these could very well be some examples of people who thought they were able but were wrong
The best part of this article may have been the comments. Pandas on fire today
I'd say half of these designs are trying to kill someone XD
I can tell that many of these homes are haunted with a crappy design like that.
Meeow love
yonnalopez love
After looking at all these tiny little mistakes that others have in their homes I will no longer look at my few lop-sided light switches with the same dislike.
A lot of these fit under the rubric "Why you should never decorate your home while on LSD."
I saw one where it was one of those spinning doors for like hotels or casinos and the family of four would get on their side and water would pour down the middle. One section leads to all their rooms and the final one would lead to the actual bathroom.
Some of these designs are actually really cool and creative.
Nightmares tonight then.
So many of these are disgusting
I'm so perturbed
My puzzler is puzzled. π€π€π€
I found this so depressing i could look past #27--yes, some were fuinny, but most were evidence of truly thoughtless, stupid design. God help whoever has to live with these things. Awful!!!
Irene Carlyle follower
I scrolled through all of these with my jaw dropped.
Why type of minds could make these designs! Half of them will injure or kill you!
23AClark ?
Enough. And this represents the efforts of that portion of humanity that can still supposedly function? Game over.
Enough. And this represents that portion of humanity that can still read, write and function to some degree. Game over.
All of the is clearly un-permitted diy βworkβ.
haha great comments!!
M Dream haha
M Dream love
My grandpa was a general contractor back in the 50sthrough the 80s, and he built a ton of homes with carpeted bathrooms. I'll never understand why.