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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
Or they wanted to look at a better-framed view of the garden while doing the dishes.The Japanese " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borrowed_scenery " philosophy/technique in garden design.
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Two people can wash the dishes together. Quite practical, in fact.
Except... this would only be possible with cheats or with a gap
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I actually like this. And I think they did this on purpose. Maybe because of the view or maybe because it's easier to open the window. Anyway I have seen this in many upscale kitchen "studios" just to make the room more interesting.
I don't see the problem with this - they have plenty of room for it, and it makes the sink usable by two people at once.
It is a double sink so coud be used by two even if back against the wall.
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maybe it wasn´t a purpose but now two persons can do the manual dish washing at the same time
I somehow suspect the dishwasher was a bit too wide, so rather than get a different dishwasher, they... shifted the cabinetry and sink.
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What do you mean not enough room for a dishwasher? ........fixed......
Might be due to a remodel, perhaps. The area with the fridge may not have been part of the original kitchen (with a wall adjoining that sink, which was then in the corner of the room), and then they just decided it was too much trouble to move the plumbing? I dunno... just trying to make some sense of it.
I think the dishwasher is at fault. They wanted one and keep the original kitchen, and this was the only way.
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Last minute thought..mm ."I feel like we are missing something, oh yes!! The sink! Let's just squeeze it here, nobody would notice"
Why do I feel like I could just pop it right back into place with the rest of the counter
There may be a plumbing fiasco under the sink and needed more room or the angled sink makes the whole kitchen more ergonomic somehow. (can't see).
There's something we're not seeing. Having the sink more accessible to the stove or an undersink issue may be an answer. Adds interest.
Found the original https://www.estately.com/listings/info/4-lower-sage-hill-lane
Was it trying to be an backward 'Island'?? You know, water in the middle surrounded by land(cabinets, appliances ect.)!!
Only sensible reason I can think of is so you don't have your full back to something while washing dishes, but to what? Or maybe the room was made bigger, and they couldn't move the sink....I'd love to know why it's like that?
The pain when you hit your side on that sink makes me cringe
They couldn't get a base cabinet the correct size to fit there, just crammed the too large one in & faked it with the countertop & sink?
That's not designed, that's someone trying to make their cupboards fit when they guessed their kitchen size instead of measuring it.
That wasn't designed, that was someone trying to make their cupboards fit after they measured the kitchen wrong!
I bet you they installed it that way because it wouldn't fit flush.
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Need to hang dish towels there so the blank white doesn’t scream out. What an awful idea. And no island.
Very pricey cabinets, custom stone counter, nice appliances, bargain basement linoleum.
Some dork decide to put in a dishwasher where the cupboard belonged
The sink is perfectly fine (at least without the carpet or what that is in front of it), however, the dishwasher needs a front cover that matches the other doors.
"Space is just a couple inches too short for the fitted sink..." "Oh don't worry, just shove it in at an angle, we'll cope, kitchen's big enough!"
is that to get a better view out of the window while washing up? Like the really interesting stuff is to the right outside.
It's a way of extending counter space but would've looked better if it were rotated the other way
Must love that special corner in the garden or spying on the neighbours.
I like it. This design lets you have a larger sink than you would normally have.
I like it. It provides the opportunity of having a larger sink than what you normally would think you could have.
When I first saw this, I thought it was a dishwasher, and was supposed to be a throwback style. Back in the day, dishwashers weren't built in: they were on wheels, and pushed off to the side unless it was being used. When you did use it, it was hooked up to the faucet in the kitchen sink with a hose, so be slightly in front of everything like this is.....and always in the way. Heaven only knows why you would do this on purpose.
Maybe the sink is just on a hinge, so you can pull it out, because it's a secret stairway passage to your underground lair, or batcave.
OBVIOUSLY, this way you can keep a good eye on the toaster without turning your head at all. Because you don't want to have to turn your head to keep looking at the toaster. Duh.
Figured it out. It was an old kitchen. The owner wanted a dishwasher added, but there wasn't enough room, so they tilted the sink out and now there is enought room for the dishwasher.
Nope, no way, I’d see this and say bye, or ask for a serious price reduction on the entire home!
What's amazing is the extra amount of work, material and money that goes into the COUNTER TOP - to accommodate this design choice...
This is such a disaster, I can’t begin to understand what happened with intelligence, here?
UG can we please have the comments in a darker tone, I can hardly see them! :-D
A 'frig can never be "too large." If you have time to shop wkly, it's smart to install bigger 'frig & freezer. If you like to waste time in supermkts, you're probably dull & have no life. During C~19, CDC allows only leaving premises in EMERGENCIES. I.e., stock up on groceries like educated folks. This is obviously a house...U.S. has more singles than marrieds & singles who live in apts would pay bribes to have full kitchens~~98% apts have kitchenettes, crowded likethis. Smart solution, architect.
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Dishwasher door open. you stand on that to rinse dishes in the sink?
How much d'ya weigh~~5 lbs? No one stands on appliance door held by 2 hinges. How stoopid [sic] are you?
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Always. All 3 meals, 365. Shld be Constitutional Amendment. Or grounds for divorce.
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The sink is rebelling against the blandness and boringness of the kitchen's spatial arrangement.
I have "OCD" as I straighten pictures on the walls or bathroom mats....this would be my demise.
Honestly I kinda like it. But what this kitchen really needs is an island.
I wonder how many times someone has walked into that sharp corner while getting a drink at night...
It's especiall nice how there is neither space for stacking dirty or clean dishes left or right. I guess you can keep the dirty things in one of the sinks, but still - I really need space on both sides when working in the kitchen.
I kind of like it. If you got a small, long table and put it on that edge, you'd have a little island.
Considering how awful the other posts are this looks almost reasonable.
Don't you like bumping into the sink every time you come to take your toasts from the toaster ?
This is something you would accidently do in The Sims, at least in the game you can undo it...
What do they say? Measure twice, cut once!! Hmmmm somebody got that wrong
I think what they were trying to do was to create more counter space around the sink, as weird as it is.
Pal-ese, have you ever been in a studio or 1-b.r. apt? Kitchenettes have 20"-36" of counter space. Look at pic~~it's L-shaped, endless counter space. How much d'ya need? U must spend your life cleaning counters. Getta life.
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The should have left that sink in before deciding on the kitchen design...
Beter agile for loading the dishwasher and allow the drawers to the right of the sink.
Rbt Robi Z is cruel & vulgar...no appreciation for design or creativity. Everybody hates you.
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I'm betting that sink is at the perfect angle to watch kids while doing dishes.
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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.
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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.
