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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
Up The Drain It Goes
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
Can't Stop Thinking About This Sink
Kitchen Made By A Sofa Maker
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.
At Least You Don't Have To Reach For It
The Almighty Toilet Throne
All It Needs Is A Jukebox And A Soda Fountain
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.
Imagine Having To Scrub Or Clean It
so if you filled in the gaps with an epoxy resin, it might be cool, but this looks impossible to keep clean as it is.
Title had me imagining, what if you had really bad diarrhea and it shot everywhere. Ewww think of the cleanup. I would just use a power spray.
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My thought exactly...meet the modern Stone Age family!
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U go, grrl. Warren Buffet [still alive but used to be richest guy in U.S. w/his Berkshire-Hathway] lives in Omaha, Neb & owns company [also in Omaha] which sells tons of [crazy, anachronistic] DIY items. He's 90 & a guy who never did s}{it around the house [ask both wives] so still thinks women wanna waste their time doing it themselves when they can buy finished product or hire some1 to do it. Esp urban women, NYC chicks would laff at silly guys who don't respect women & think they're lah-di-dah. Warren: Women have EVOLVED & have jobs now [50 yrs ago, 70% of women worked for pay]...join the 20th century, misogynist.
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I would lay odds that this is an art installation and not an actual functioning bathroom.
that is not ok, that is NOT ok. Whoever desined this bathroom is not ok
Where is the toilet tho? I see a sink and a bidet but nothing to poo in....
If you look at it close up it looks like a sink knobs on the back and if you look at the middle of the toilet it looks like a sink plug there is no toilet hole
I can only imagine if you have to sit on it for more than a few minutes the a**e imprint you would have every time, and if you have constipation you could get permanent scaring if it's a regular thing.
In NZ handy-men and DIY-ers do this with the little sheets of gaudy coloured stick-on tiles. They especially like to do dressing tables and almost any and other thing in the house that's flat. Another favourite material for sticking on almost anything is sea shells: A hill billy south islander did his entire house in paua shells. Its so popular the government made it a national treasure. Bus loads of kiwis visit the place like the Elvis house visits in the States.
How certain are they that the wee brown bits are from the sea , I side that toilet bowl gross!!🤪
It looks like the buckets of crap my kids bring home from the beach and then their grandma glues it on picture frames.
This could belong to the "Palais Idéal du Facteur Cheval" in France ^^
This is God awful and just doesn't look like any of the time spent in this bathroom would be enjoyable
I agree with Truth Monster filling in the gaps with epoxy resin it would look cool. I still not sure how it would feel to sit on it. Don’t think my butt would like it.
and that's not even the toilet, that's the bidet, so even more stuff to clean
I think they were stoned to death in a previous life and are collecting stones so it can't happen again!!
Your feet are actually in the water....as the brown coi fish make there way home......damn it where out of Lillypads again....
Oh no honey, I ain’t cleaning that…no no. Also, someone best put a soft toilet seat on that thing tout de suite.
When you realize the dollar tree has bags of rocks… and know you can find “some use for them” if you buy them….
This is not a toilet, it's a bidet. Supposed to wash your private parts, so usually only water should go down the drain. It's gross, anyways.
OMG? Could you imagine sitting on either the toilet or in the tub naked? OUCHERS. Not to mention the germ potential.
Where is the top of the toilet where the water goes I don't even see a flusher like a previous commenter said it might be cool if they used a cool epoxy but even then it's pretty ugly and does not seem user friendly I just imagine my tush sitting on that toilet rim and shutter as someone with crohn's who has to go to the bathroom quite a lot this toilet looks like my worst nightmare. And the fact that you can see the White grout popping through all the rocks or Stones I guess I should say is so ugly. My fiance has the hardest time getting his clumps of toothpaste to go down the drain so every morning when I wake up after him to go to work and go to brush my teeth there is toothpaste all over the sink which is easy to rinse down the drain but apparently it's too hard for him to do. If we had this sink I would not blame him in the slightest for his morning toothpaste mess.
Imagine sitting there for awhile and the imprint it would leave on your butt.
Cool thought, but na, I’ll stick with the normal toilet
What's the bar behind the toilet for? To hit your head on when you sit down?
I can't believe how many of you idiots think that is a toilet! It's a bidet!
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Someone got out of control with a glue gun. Can the crapper even flush? Wait, it's a bidet.
I can see what they are trying to do, the execution just failed. On the plus side, and gross side, if you run out of toilet paper you can…eh
Someone obviously did this due to outdated toilet and sink (going by the tile), but the whole thing will need redone now.
That toilet has to be in an all female house!; No guy is going to sit to pee 100% of the time...And when he does stand; I bet when the ladies in the house have to go after him; they'll be sitting on droplets.
I am almost certain this is a bidet and not a toilet. It has a drainage instead of the regular opening to flush the water. Gross anyways but a tad less gross than a rocky textured toilet.
Kinda looks like a drunk/high face; a dizzy eye n a mouth wide open. See it?
Excuse me, but do I see a sink drain in the **toilet**? What. . .how. . .?
Hope this person isn't single because I feel a lot of "I'm just not that into you" coming on.
If this is the couple's first home, they're off to a rocky start. (see what I did there?)
Can you imagine the stench if it wasn’t scrubbed at least once a day. Those stones are quite porous I would imagine and would hold the smell
Do you throw coins in it or invite the wild birds outside to use it as a birdbath?
Just get a new toilet seat, the rest is fine, it will be a chore to clean though.
Hideous mirror. No-taste tenants...don't visit. One person or found roomie also w/no taste? Where? Uncomfortable lives...awkward premises. Have neighbors visited?
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Never mind scrubbing and cleaning it, what about sitting on the bloody thing - 😱
I do hope that nobody shits a brick = = that would cause even more confusion. This belongs in an art gallery not a bathroom.
It has the knobs and drain of a sink, but I don't see a faucet...weird.
If you take dump, by the time you've stood up you'll have pebble prints all over your butt-cheeks
Grody to the max. It was clean on Day One. From Day Two it's all downhill.
Maybe the rocks are foam rubber made to look like rocks -- it's still a bumpy ride!
That is the worst toilet I've ever seen? There is no way to clean that thing right and also the bruising on your ass
That's not a functional toilet.. thank goodness. It has a sink type drain.
Is that all you got? There's no soap in pic [white pumper is lotion]. Pls don't waste our time w/yr delusional nonsense.
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there is a drain in the toilet so I'm assuming it's a bidet but why the toilet paper?
Imagine sitting on that and poking you butt several times just going for a poop.
I think I would just use a pressure-washer to clean it every time.
'Pebble dash' is defined by s}{it, S}{it, S}{IT, aaack!
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I Almost Fell Down And Rolled My Ankle On This
New Kitchen Style
Why Is There Wood Separating The Hallway In Half
Yup, The Fridge Fit Boss
My Parents Have A Bathroom With Carpet That Goes Up The Bathtub Walls. Bonus Points For The Terrible Wallpaper
Who Says Crown Molding Is Overdone?
I Think My Stairs Fit Here
Middle Class Fridge. Lower Class Aesthetic
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 Bathroom Covered In Carpet
This Single Square Inch Of Raised Carpet Complete With Lining
I Can Just Imagine The Whole House Shaking Like Crazy
Wash Your Hands You Animals
Imagine Trying To Piss While Drunk
These Stairs Leading To A Bedroom Loft
My Friend Just Finished A Kitchen Remodel
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
Why Is The Big Face Bleeding, Why The Monkey, Just Why
This Shower Has Blinds Instead Of Curtains
This "Form Over Function" Kitchen In My Apartment
Social Distancing Looking A Lot Like Being Married For 10+ Years
Toilet Room Design
8000 Magic Cards Covering 39m²
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 Kitchen’s Counters And Backsplash Are Covered With This “Faux Mold” Tile
Imagine Being A Firefighter And Entering A Dark Smoke-Filled House From The Outside Through This Window
Is It Possible To Change This?
This Throne Room
Neck Pain And A Head Injury Anyone?
My Grandma’s 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!
The Queen’s Seat
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 Doesn’t Allow The Fan To Suck In Any Air
These Tiles That Are Designed Pre-Worn And Dirty
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.
Please do not confuse the work of professional designers with anything on this list.
The best part of this article may have been the comments. Pandas on fire today
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.
I can tell that many of these homes are haunted with a crappy design like that.
A lot of these fit under the rubric "Why you should never decorate your home while on LSD."
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
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None of these are designed by anyone with a degree. These are, horrible, granted, examples of what happens when people make over their own homes.
I've seen some of this in real life especially the carpeted bathroom. Most of those I've seen belong in elderly people. They just love carpets.
A lot of these were sensory disorder triggers for me, so I just want to apologize if anyone else that has seen this post if they got a sensory disorder episode from some of the images
I wish there was a way to save Panda Posts. I have tears streaming down my face from first the pix then the comments. GOOD SHOW PANDAS!!!!
I'm redesigning my kitchen and this has given me nightmares. All the things that can go wrong...
So many of these all I can think is "how do you keep this clean?" Carpet in the toilet? On the walls?
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!!!
Why type of minds could make these designs! Half of them will injure or kill you!
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.
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.
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I better be f*****g high, because Trump supporters did not just storm the f*****g Capitol building and disrupt the vote count.
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!
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.
I'm having a Fight-or-Flight instinct just looking at these terrible designs from Hell.
Please do not confuse the work of professional designers with anything on this list.
The best part of this article may have been the comments. Pandas on fire today
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.
I can tell that many of these homes are haunted with a crappy design like that.
A lot of these fit under the rubric "Why you should never decorate your home while on LSD."
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
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None of these are designed by anyone with a degree. These are, horrible, granted, examples of what happens when people make over their own homes.
I've seen some of this in real life especially the carpeted bathroom. Most of those I've seen belong in elderly people. They just love carpets.
A lot of these were sensory disorder triggers for me, so I just want to apologize if anyone else that has seen this post if they got a sensory disorder episode from some of the images
I wish there was a way to save Panda Posts. I have tears streaming down my face from first the pix then the comments. GOOD SHOW PANDAS!!!!
I'm redesigning my kitchen and this has given me nightmares. All the things that can go wrong...
So many of these all I can think is "how do you keep this clean?" Carpet in the toilet? On the walls?
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!!!
Why type of minds could make these designs! Half of them will injure or kill you!
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.
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.
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Load More Replies... I better be f*****g high, because Trump supporters did not just storm the f*****g Capitol building and disrupt the vote count.
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!
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.
