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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
It looks like somewhere the unsub in Criminal Minds would keep his next victim.
That was exactly what I first thought. Definite creepy pervert serial killer vibes going on.
Load More Replies...The wall is slowly digesting the toilet, and everybody sitting on it
huh what no im not a perfectionist at all. its ok. definatly not bugging me, im ok. its lright
Why couldn't they put it against the back wall?! And what's with the carpet!?! This was designed for a hostage, not an "extra bathroom".... Where's the sink!? Lol what were they thinking?!?!? 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Didn’t want to move the the drain in the floor, probably.
Load More Replies...It serves as a closet for toilet paper supply as well! You just can't wash your hands...
Muffled something else. Someone is very neurotic about hearing or issuing certain loud sounds from the a**l sphincter that can be overheard. Think sound proofing.
Load More Replies...Carpeted toilet wall? Well, we have seen the flowery art installation bathroom, but that was an art installation which means that the loo was not supposed to be used. This one... Yucky.
The amount of bacteria that will soon be all over these walls...
Only thing missing is the hug me-jacket. Just saying.
Load More Replies...Well...I'll be darned...I thought carpet in the bathroom was gross but OMG...this takes the cake!
If they miss the toilet and hit the wall then it just gets absorbed. Easy clean up!
If he/she runs out of loo roll at least they’ll be able to use the carpet. No one will notice the difference.
If Harry Potter could have a cupboard under the stairs, who is hell is stopping people from having a bathroom under that stairs?
People who want to muffle sounds and preserve heat. Not that it's hygienic or pretty...
Load More Replies...Theres no excuse 4 this. Years ago b4 I got clean, I worked 4 a home remodeler and I used to get high at work but I still never wouldve let something go down like this. Unless the pipes were already placed a certain way or they HAD 2 put them that way to avoid electric wires or something then there is no reason this shouldve happened
Warning: Do not use go in there. It's creepy, and it looks cramped.
That's cringe-worthy. Looks like the wall is made of moss or mold or something. -10803q57049857q/10
Hello, creeper house. I feel like this is where you die. Good for a horror movie though. Sorry.
Was hired to alter blueprints to make the toilet face backwards of Mecca, despite it being 5,000 miles away. This is probably the same concept. As bad as carpeted walls are, bathrooms with carpeted floors are even worse.
I'd remove the toilet and plumbing and turn it into a kickass reading nook.
When he world slips you a jeffrey Stroke the furry wall Stroke the furry wall Furry walls don't bring me down Furry walls please stay around Furry walls Furry walls Furry walls kiss me to sleep Furry walls please help me leave Furry walls Furry walls Furry walls can take you on a magic carpet ride Throw their arms around you 'til you've got no place to hide Let your furry fingers be your guide Furry walls turn out the light Furry walls please stay the night Furry walls Furry walls Furry walls let's have a taste Furry walls sit on my face Furry walls Furry walls Maybe I'm in heaven with the furry skies above All around are furry clouds, look, here's a furry dove Let me stroke your furry walls of love Furry walls Furry walls Furry walls I am amazed Furry walls we're in a daze Furry walls Don't be in a hurry things are not the way they were Shaggy walls of loveliness it's all a furry blur Maybe I'm in heaven with the furry skies above All around are furry clouds, look, here's a furry dove
And as if all that wasn't enough, the carpeting is brown! This is sheer genius on a scale of horror.
Carpet - cannot comprehend (sound suppression/warmth isolation?) but a diagonal toilet that's easy - drain pipe was too close to the wall. I used to have a similar problem before WC renovation...
Better diagonal than so close to the wall that you can't sit on half of it. Had to sit diagonally on the loo in my council flat as my shoulders were too wide to use it the normal way
It's actually common to have plumbing and a toilet under the stairs, particularly in 1800 and early 1900 houses. The carpet is gross though
Honestly? It's the carpet that's an issue for me. I get the diagonal - you need to do things like that sometimes in small spaces in order to have room for your feet... but carpet does not belong in a bathroom. Blech.
At least people won’t hit their head when they stand up. But why on the diagonal?
Hey that flooring if from the 60's we used to have it in my brother bedroom lol.
Iits a toilet not a bathroom. A bathroom as name suggests is a room with a bath in
eeewwww nasty carpet filled with (((shudder))) Did it start out that color?
Is it an entire bathroom or just a strange toilet just sitting there?
At first glance I thought, poop stained stairs, but it is carpet. Not sure what moisture will do in that situation. Maybe a cabinet for the toilet paper would help ??? Some.
Mu gyess: that's where the plumbing stack already is. The carpeting: so nobody can hear bathroom noises in the adjacent living or dining rooms.
I don't see a sink to was up afterword's it also looks like the toilet is hovering above the floor
Right colour walls if one runs out of bog roll! Unlikely though, (precautions foreground) appear to have been taken
A germaphobes nightmare! Just looking at this makes me feel as if I have to go and take a shower! It would be so bad for those with constipation as they wouldn't dare be in there long enough to try to 'go'!
I mean I get the toilet under the stairs, because in my house everybody has wished many times that you didn't have to go all the way upstairs to go to the toilet. And under the stairs can be a nice little space to use as a toilet or half-bathroom. But the fluffy carpeted walls...
The loo doesn't bother me anywhere near as much as the carpet walls. Come on, you put vinyl on the floor assuming there be "drips" but what about the splash 💦 back people.
If you have diarrhea and spray the wall, you will never notice.
It's a Potter Potty!! In a house with kids, this could be a livesaver!
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.
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.
Upvoted. Why would someone down vote your comment?
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.
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
Load More Replies...Upvoted. Why would someone down vote your comment?
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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.
Upvoted. Why would someone down vote your comment?
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.