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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
Yes, compansating a sewage pipe that is too high for a bathroom on this floor.
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Would you want to pee into the toilet standing on the top step? One step back to adjust your clothing and.....
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So if the shower has a door, why the huge shower curtain? Why do I feel like this is wide open to the rest of the room?
I think the curtain is to give the occupant of the throne some privacy.
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Like in the Parasite movie, when they live in that cheap basement appartment where the raised toilet seat is the only place you can get some wifi.
I laughed at this..😁 but I'm thinking its a reflection, Lol!
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the one I always dream about, when I am on the job, somebody comes and there is nowhere to hide. So I try to find a new toilet.
Christy smith i think its red tile and a red rug under the toilet maybe?
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That seems incredibly dangerous I know personally I've gotten up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and have this is embarrassing but falling asleep on the toilet only to wake up with a jolt. If my toilet was like this I think I would be dead already and what is in the right hand corner of the viewer's perspective is that a urinal if so it's very tall but I guess that's what the step is for.
Hit your head on the damn ceiling taking a caca. Also...probably not a great place to go potty if you're intoxicated...or tired at night...basically a hazard at all times lol
Now whenever someone walks in on you you have an excuse to say "bow down to me"
I have pain all over just looking at this. All those steps, night time bathroom "trips" You could murder someone, and just put their body on the bottom step...cops would think it was an accident
They just didn't want to choose between sitting on the toilet, and throwing up in the sink.
Oh ive seen this in the movie Parasite! The poor Koreans house had a toilet that was like almost placed so high it hit the ceiling! I kept thinking "how the hell do you even sit on that thing without hitting ur head on the ceiling!"
I just want to know what happens when you need to pray to the porcelain God? Does that happen while you're sitting sideways at the urinal ?
when i was a child-- back in the mid 1960s- my great aunt and uncle had a toilet in their basement that was on a shorter but definitely a throne nonetheless. It was just out in the basement and was not in a "bathroom" so to speak. no walls. spooked the h*** out of me.
And that;s a long hard climb if you get a severe gastro bug. And an uncomfortable fall if you faint....
I swear this is my uncle's old house in Egypt. It looks exactly like it and even the curtains were blue, believe me.
There is so much happening here. First, hope you're not tall. Then, they also have a urinal? Then, why is there a shower curtain across the room?
Oh hell no. When I got to pee…there is no time to climb a mountain or an Aztec Step Pyramid to get to the depository. Ummm, I’d make it to the first step and drop trou and sit in that shower. Someone is entirely too invested in toilet business to be healthy.
problem with floor level zero... you want toilet, ok, but you can't build a toilet in this room, why? because all your neighbor's s**t will come to your toilet... o... but this is the solution to the problem!
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I don't know if it's the camera angle but if that urinal is built for an average male in height, it's way too high.
The urinal is at normal height. At first I wondered if it was a unique plumbing design, but nah - this is just there.
The times my girlfriend has passed out drunk on the toilet and fallen to the floor... Also, the random tiling.
I would break my neck in no time - I hate walking down steps without a handrail.
It's an anti-wasted toilet. This queen will not be getting HER hands dirty.
LOL I have been in a bathroom almost as bad the toilet sink and tub are all on a raised dais with only about a foot in front of said items, the rest of the floor is 8 inches below that. I was terrified I would forget in the middle of the night and half kill myself
The urinal confuses me - are you supposed to sit on the step and pee, or what?
Does anyone else have Bad Toilet Dreams, where you’re searching for a toilet and they’re all filthy, no toilet paper, up in the corner of the room?
Yes, and filled to the brim with used water and stuffed with paper!
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I not kidding when I say I've had nightmares that look similar to this.
And the urinal just adds to the complete idiocy! The steps don't help either. I wonder how many kids or drunks fell...
notice the height of the urinal---- good for a house plant. otherwise, this is a useless room
If you are tall enough to use that sink, you are gonna bump your head using the toilet
I was in a hotel in Bedford England IIRC that has the ensuite toilet a bit like that. As the hymn says "Enthroned in Heavenly Splendour".
Climbing up the steps to the toilet could be so time-consumptive if someone were in urgent need of the toilet. Thank goodness the flooring is stone and not carpeted for the many accidents that could occur.
that most likely is necessity. There aren't any pipes lower the closet output. The s**t will not magically go upstairs.
At 2 AM I'd need a ... ah... ahh... I'll just whizz in the shower! LOl
Women don't have that option. Women also use bidet or clean folds down under to avoid infections~~since guys refuse to clean btwn their filthy folds...EVER, aaack!
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So you want lotsa space in yr bathrm~~then don't buy this house. Have never seen urinal in an apt. Tighter rooms mean less cleaning...guys who use urinals don't clean bathrm, b.r., l.r., kitchen or anytg. They need to have sex withheld 'til they learn how to respect women. Women aren't your slaves~~not matter yr title or how overpaid you've been for centuries.
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im a gilr, but i know enough to know that that is a very tall urinal
Jesus Christ this is going to suck when I wake up in the middle of the night cuz I have to go to the bathroom
Is the urinal pipe going into the shower?! 😂😂😂 So much wrong here, God forbid you gotta go.... Bad!! Take one step up and have to change your pants 😂😂😂
They should have just had the seat up there and the toilet in the floor. Bombs away
This is the bathroom Alfred should have used for the Psycho shower scene.
Toilets get raised like this if the room is on a slab and the u bend has no spot. Raising a toilet allows for a u bend, and prevents stinky gasses from coming out.
This is deep in a below ground basement. To the point where the basement floor is *below* the sewer line. Considering flushing a toilet requires gravity to get the water and waste to go away... you can't have a toilet below the main sewer line.
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All of this elaborate stuff and they forgot the old style urinal. Simply not acceptable.
Maybe he made it for his Royal Heinous. The urinal is low for the guy, but he gives his wife privacy with the curtain for sitting on her 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.
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.
