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All the fellow interior and furniture design aficionados, pull your seats closer. Also, those who enjoy the quirkier side of the internet. Today, we have a real treat for you!

Welcome to “Sorry For Design,” an Instagram page that labels itself as “visual arts” entertainment and you can’t argue. The account, which seems to be still growing, features an impressive collection of the most eccentric, plain weird and totally bizarro pieces of interior decor.

Think of a tarantula chair or a Jeff Goldblum-inspired bathroom: some of the designs shared here take insanity to an entirely new level. Below we selected the funniest and most eyebrow-raising examples, so enjoy and upvote your favorite ones as you go!

Bored Panda reached out to Katia Tolstykh, a Berlin-based interior and furniture designer, co-founder of OddinShape studio, and the creator behind the Sorry For Design Instagram account. Today, Tolstykh has 9 years of experience in design. In 2020, she along with her husband founded Odd In Shape, a multi-disciplinary design studio that works mainly in digital art, dreamscape interiors, and furniture design.

Tolstykh told us that Sorry For Design was created as a source of inspiration and fun. “Instagram, Pinterest, and other resources focus on beautiful and professional products, while a massive number of things made by non-professionals are left out of the equation,” Tolstykh explained.

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According to the interior and furniture designers, they may be funny, vulgar, naive, or disgusting, but they are all worthy of attention. “My account is a collection of projects by notable designers, and by ordinary people. All these projects are done with soul,” Tolstykh said.

When it comes to eccentric and unusual design, Tolstykh believes that it not only catches the eye but also “cheers people up.” Moreover, “everyone has their own reasons to like this design. It's hard to speak for everyone,” she said.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oooh, definitely. This would go down so well in many horsey places. I can just see people sitting on this bench to try on new riding roots. (Ooops, Iconic is correct, I meant 'boots', not 'roots'.)

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Moreover, the examples shared on Sorry For Design, Tolstykh argues, are really more about art and flamboyance than functional furniture. “They’re about the search for new forms, about scandal, about the rejection of common notions, about the expansion of the boundaries of the permitted and the familiar,” she explained and added that “This is art.”

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cool! I can't help but picture Dracula raising out of bed, gliding across the floor to the tank, and tapping on the glass saying "Fishy fishy fishy!"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You meet some absolute dream date. She takes you back to hers, you enter the bedroom, see this, you try to run but the door is locked,,,,

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you've got a swoll bank account with an equally impressive home this is most definitely in your wheelhouse.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Showed this to my sister. She loved it. Not seeing the problem here. I suppose it's not vanilla enough for the poster...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ursula’s bedroom if she had actually tricked Prince Eric into marrying her

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Just Jeff
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is an evil geniuses lair. Or part of their origin story...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Love the aquarium though I would have it standing at the end of the bed. Hope it's stable and easily movable too.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine!!!!!!!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine mine!!!!!!!!!!!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel like there should be piranhas in the tank but I don't know why...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

THAT FISH TANK! I 'll take two please! HOLY C**P I WANT THIS=

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OMG So , so sexy, I think I'm about to .. . We're ordering today.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This looks super dope I just don't know if that's a big enough tank for fish

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My gothic dream house. Not really under the sea themed, definitely more gothic. And I mean like actual gothic, not teen angst goth.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd feel like I would have to wear head to toe leather, and carry a whip everytime I walked in there. 😁

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes. Or rubber. Skin tight. You, however, won't be the one carrying the whip. Perhaps you misunderstood. Do you now dress, we're waiting.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reminds me of those Victorian glass carriages they used for funerals...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I made a room in animal crossing exactly like this...sooooo....I need it.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Id rather have my snake than the fish but I love love love this!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Brilliant cure for my insomnia - just lie there and watch the fishes until I nod off

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You worship our Dark Lord how you wish, and I'll have my way with a sea orc how I wish.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Too dark and oppressive. Reminds me of Henry Fuseli's "The Nightmare".

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It looks pretty, but I have a fish tank. Let me tell you: that fish tank would be impossible to clean.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The worst part of this picture is whatever happened to those ceiling squares. OMG. Is it going to be OK?!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Im kind of concerned that a sleep walker might smash the fish tank or even just rolling out of bed...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The size of the furniture compared to the ceiling height is really not working. And I don't doubt the rest of the room is too small. Furnishings like that really need a huge space, like something you'd find in a castle, or a loft. I don't hate the furniture, just the location. I'll bet that aquarium is a pain to clean.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The ceiling doesn't work with it, and the bed should be taller, otherwise I love it!

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In many ways, interior design is no different than fashion. It has its own trends, styles that change with years, seasons and people’s lifestyles. Various external influences are also to blame for fleeting interior design styles, social change and technological advancement included.

Previously, our fellow Bored Panda writer Rokas spoke with an interior architect and lecturer at Vilnius College of Design named Judita Striukienė. According to her, nowadays eclectic solutions are on the rise; it's really popular to combine different interior design styles

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That feeling when you're being interrogated under a bare lightbulb, but your interrogators got really cute with the decor.

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"In fact, it's quite rare to discover a place that is true to just one school. When you say a home was designed according to a certain style, you usually mean that some elements have an advantage in that place over the others or there is some sort of leitmotif throughout the entire space," the interior architect told Bored Panda.

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On the other hand, there exist main aspects of good interior design that defy time and trends. According to Striukienė, living spaces have to be functional. Everything else is more or less decor, creating a certain mood," she said.

This is why many interior designers start the design procedure by getting to really know the person or family who are going to live in a particular space. Their lifestyles, preferences, likes and dislikes all make up the end interior the designer comes up with.

Although most people would agree on what they call a bad or a good interior, that doesn’t mean that tacky and eccentric interiors don’t find their audience. On the contrary, it's no secret that the internet has been fascinated with quirky interiors, bizarre furniture, crazy McMansions and everything in between.

These unusual spaces seem to both transgress universal aesthetics on what we consider appealing and common sense, and show that there can also be no rules whatsoever.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Finally you can actually blame the chair for all those sounds you make when sitting down.

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Spider Bed, Spider Bed / Groovy place to lay your head / Is it safe? Heaven knows / He's got radioactive toes / Hey you (who?) / Jump in the Spider Bed. (For the tune, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OP8keCbSVU)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This little pig's expression sums up this sofa.. That's a whole lot of sofa for one seat...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah yes, this must have been made when humans had two knees per leg

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looks like this would be uncomfortable. Bring cushions. Better yet, throw the cushions on the floor and sit there.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The wheels are a nice touch. They allow you and your partner to play some kind of agarian bumper-car game in the house.

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