“Sorry For Design”: 50 Utterly Dreadful Designs Posted On This Instagram Account
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!
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Ok, so I googled it because I wanted to get one and this is just a stock image from Google, the site doesn't even sell one. Disappointing.. I wanted one.. also disappointing because this is first and it's not even dreadful..
Come on, i would love this as a kid, c**p i want one now, and i'm in my 40s
Ikr I would totally have this for my kid if they were into construction vehicles!
Load More Replies...only complaint...those corners...kids love to jump on beds...just sayin'....
They'd learn pretty quickly to not jump on this one... just saying...
Load More Replies...This is an example of smart design, not "utterly dreadful design". First, they've taken the vehicle down to its core components, which means the blueprint is fairly simple. Second of all, turning the bucket into a shelf for storing their things is genius. My only semi-concern is those sharp-ish corners on the tops of the 'arms'. I would have maybe rounded them a bit more, but that's just me.
I thought this was supposed to be a list of "dreadful" design, not delightful design!
I’d never leave! Caves and water are so peaceful.
Load More Replies...I love this, but it looks like it would be a pain to clean
So what - do you think anybody with enough money to build something like this cleans it themselves? Somebody will be paid to do that...
Load More Replies...THE MOON POOL omg i remember this, this post unlocked so many hidden memories
Load More Replies...How is this a failure? This is gorgeous! All that would be needed for privacy would be window tint or curtains and/or locks and that’s it!
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.
Okay, I am at #5 and I am yet to see something "dreadful". There is some legit craftsmanship being shown here...
One step closer to the mother nature
I love it! Extra points for the night mural on the ceiling and the tiny birdhouse.
Yes plenty of nifty things here, the seat, shelves, steps etc. well designed.
Load More Replies...Oooh, yes! Along with soft white billowy curtains, and soft, gentle woodland sounds playing in the background.
EXACTLY! I want to sleep in a tree bed like an elf-lord!
Load More Replies...I haven't scrolled past one I couldn't at least find SOME way to justify...
Load More Replies...I saw the picture on the vending machine in the back and thought they were selling hard boiled eggs.
I need this in my life ( but then again i also fell in love for a bright yellow lamp that was preety much the body of a big dog sitting and the head was the " Pixar " lamp ). Dont judge me lol, i know i'm wierd.
No, you don't, trust me. Clear resin turns yellow with time, it gets stained with the oils and fats used in the kitchen and scratches quite easily. It will be awful in a few months time and you will regret not using tiles.
Load More Replies...Now imagine yourself walking barefoot on this floor and stepping on even a drop of water that has fallen on it. Looking at that shiny layer, it seems slippery as hell...
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.
Not when you know it is modelled after a brazen bull....
Load More Replies...Clever until you realise it is shape of this.. https://www.openculture.com/2013/11/brazen-bull.html
YAS exactly what I was thinking! Its sad.😓
Load More Replies...I'm really glad others recognized the brazen bull. It's what I thought of at first glance. I could never eat anything out of that thing 😳
I wonder if people get the reference here..... if you don't look up iron bull torture!
Reading the comments, I do believe we have some cultured people around lol.
Load More Replies...You know there was a medieval torture device kinda like this, I’m pretty sure it was called the bronze bull. Don’t ask why I know this, I just know weirdly enough about medieval torture devices. You would be placed inside and the metal would be heated up until it was essentially a human oven.
Awesome grill with the added functionality as a torture device for the douchebag neighbors.
Sometimes life IS a piece of cake.
At first I thought it was a sofa. Then I thought it was a cake made to look like a sofa. Then I thought it was a sofa made to look like a cake made to look like a sofa. Now I'm just focussing on the chocolate rug. Mmmmmm, chocolate.
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'.)
That’s a really gorgeous piece of craftsmanship. I’ve been going through this listicle so far and am having a lot of trouble finding a failure yet.
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.”
Under the Sea.
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!"
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,,,,
Is that a California or New York hot dog? The cucumber and tomato are NOT correct toppings 🙂
As a woman of a certain age, I can't have furniture that tempts me to cheat on my diet
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
As someone who has to pick up several of these daily, yuck!
Load More Replies...I'm going down every internet rabbit hole I can in search of this because I need it so badly.
In dreams of vacay.
Fantastic! This an excellent beach design. Practical, yet lots of fun.
and much easier sanitation wise than those cushioned type u get at beaches/poolside!
Load More Replies...I live on the coast. There's a dude near me that makes chairs like this. Palm trees, skulls, surfboards with shark bites, and the ever popular beer bottle. He'll make 2 or 3 and ride around town with them in his truck and have them sold within an hour or so. He makes a killing selling a dozen or so of these each week.
I mean I wouldn't want it at home. But it's perfect for a resort or restaurant or something near the beach
Had to come back and check the pic and then the comments to make sure I wasn't the only one who saw carrots :)
Load More Replies...That feeling when you're being interrogated under a bare lightbulb, but your interrogators got really cute with the decor.
I saw a picture of a clock that looks like a flying squirrel spread out like in this one and the numbers were all nipples
Not relevant to the thead but was friends with someone who changed their Facebook name to "Sa Rah" and this kinda reminded me of that.
Load More Replies...It almost looks like it’s a combo light & ceiling fan. I wonder if it spins..
I wondered that as well. I don't like the bare bulb, otherwise it's cute.
Load More Replies...Creative. I don't like the bare bulb but, I don't know how else you would do it.
"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.
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.
Jules Verne: novelist, playwright, master of bathroom design
I feel like this would have been good in a larger bathroom, but it's overpowering in a small one.
It's on the bright side but it beats the pants off every gray and white bathroom I've been in for the past 11 years...
I like this for some reason it kinda reminds me of Edgar Allen poe, or a raven
I’d be the idiot making tracks everywhere using the feet to freak people out.
Saw this on Antiques Roadshow. The vintage ones are worth a bit, but they are still being made today.
reminds me of this burger place i saw with burger ingredient cushions for the seats
It's at a sidewalk cafe! How could it not work for that environment!?
I saw something similar recently, it had ice cream scoops on the top, it was the outdoor tables of a sweet shop, pretty cool
I don't think so, there are four feet and they are almost as wide as the top.
Load More Replies...You could buy two of the seats above and then buy this table and then boom you'd have a set
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.
I grew up in the 80s and 90s and to me this pattern is definitely more reminiscent of the 1980s. If you watch the movie Clueless or the original tv show Sabrina the Teenage Witch, those clothes are more reminiscent of 1990s fashion (even if it is a little exaggerated or idealized for film or tv). That type of pattern was probably still around, it just wasn't in style. Eleven wore a similar pattern in the 3rd season of Stranger Things which was supposed to be around 1985. But you definitely aren't the first person I have seen associate that pattern with the 90s.
Load More Replies...Please sit down on the violin.
Finally you can actually blame the chair for all those sounds you make when sitting down.
Don't want to be that guy, but those are obviously cello neck(sorry, I play cello, so I like to make sure it is known). It would be a very small chair if those were violin necks
As a cellist, i will burn anyone who says this is a violin.
Same! It was great until I scrolled down a little further and saw those 😬
Load More Replies...Eggsellent!
Is it just me, or for all the padding it still looks really uncomfortable?
I love this. My late grandfather used to race pigeons. I actually want this table
Reminds me of this photo of Nastassja Kinski and a boa constrictor: https://magazine.artland.com/stories-of-iconic-artworks-nastassja-kinski-the-serpent/
I remember that from when I was a teenager. It was an extremely popular poster.
Load More Replies...As a girl who really wants to be a snake lady, I approve this table :)
I was holding it together and then I saw the toes. Oh heck no
I lost it with "nope" as soon as I saw the face nvm the toes
Load More Replies...It's not a piece of furniture, it's a political cartoon by a very famous cartoonist. And as a satirical artwork it's brilliant!
Oh hell no! That thing is creepy AF, and I don't care if it's a cartoon or not. It's creepy.
It's political art, making a strong statement. It's not for actual use, thank goodness!
Load More Replies...I feel like this is the squishy comfort char I need when I just am not having the best day 😂
Omg, get in my house please! Every single one of these seats. I ADORE all of them! So much fun, and I'm pretty sure this is a big bean bag.
This would be great by a pool. Dare to be a little silly and fun, jeez!
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)
Imagine waking up at 3 in the morning, walking into the dark kitchen, then get jump scared by a dolphin under your feet XD
I bet the owner is annoyed he didn't snag that matching dolphin couch!
It's a bummer that the resin floor has yellowed so much over time, but I give this home owner a huge high five for making her house look how she wants it to be, not what the market says will sell fast.
I thought it was the overhead light before I scrolled down ;-;
fr alex would love this. goes with the interior decor of his house too
Load More Replies...Is it supposed to be a metallic green catsuit, or just a strange green woman?
Load More Replies...This just screams "I tried to kidnap a lady and make her my table, but she kept running away" so I settled for this.
My favorite part of this one (for some reason) is how she has boots, gloves and a swimming cap on but the rest of her body is nude, complete with visible, uncensored private parts (that means nipples). I kinda wanna see the back-side, tbh. Anyone saying they don't at least want to see it is lying. LOOK AT THIS THING.
I dont. I legit dont. This is a disgusting piece for so many reasons. So if this is the only time I see any part of it, I'll be happy.
Load More Replies...Under-the-sea bedroom
As a kid I would've loved this to pieces. I'd age it up a little for me now, but it's unique in fun way.
And when I tried it with butter, everything changed!!
Load More Replies...Lol. That was the first thing that came to mind. Perfect birthday gift.
Load More Replies...There are lilies on which it was based right next to it.
Load More Replies...Susan, the majority of flowers look like labias. That's just how it is. Look at any lily, orchid, or any light pink flower and you will see a labia.
Load More Replies...Over brutality.
In fact, that's kinda clever way of fire protection if you like the style.
Na dude, that is One dangerous piece of ..... Imagine stumble on One of those teeth, or worst imagine for what ever reason some One falls and hits its head on that bucket or teeth, that is a bad idea to have in a house, you can still get a protection for the " stove " that is not even more dangerous than the stove it self lol.
Load More Replies...I would be the one to break my toes on the claw, whilst coming out late at night to load the stove.
It really is no harder on toes than a cement or brick step, and people don't go around breaking toes on those... My parents' fireplace used to have a brick ledge all around, and no one ever got hurt during the 30yrs it was there. Both my grandmas' too.
Load More Replies...For the real chocolate lovers.
I disagree. Those are Hershey bars. Real chocolate lovers love real chocolate. Hershey is garbage. 🤷🏻♀️
Reminds me of the Prince of Pondicherry from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...
I know right!! I'm half expecting to see a chocolate lamp and desk to go with the bed somewhere on this list
Load More Replies...It's all fun and games until Kyle gets drunk and tries to wheel you around
Yes! Stealing this idea for my brothers barn bar..your too drunk? Sit in the wheel barrow! Your outta here!!
Good for getting that last guest out the door after the party is over.
I'll be darned, the perfect comment does exist!
Load More Replies...If you want to punish the kids, you ask them to comb it.
It's pretty, but looks like it would get dirty pretty easily?
Ok, this one's not practical enough to use. Ok, I grant you that this one is pretty bad, in a technical sense.
Just needs a lampshade instead of a head and it would be perfectly kitsch.
The head works, but bulbs at the horns, and a shade.
Load More Replies...They made a lot of these in the 90's. I remember there was a zebra table and an elephant one too.
I swear I have seen something like this before in a furniture store in the 90s. No wait! A Piers One in the 90s. Yes!
Come to Papa
Okay I like the idea but I think they could have made it look better
This little pig's expression sums up this sofa.. That's a whole lot of sofa for one seat...
Weird, but it'd go great in the kids' playroom with that big corn cob.
Yes, but they're all very high end, whereas this looks very poorly made. 😕🤷♀️
Load More Replies.... . . more Photoshopped food, these must be for art homework assignments?
I think that I saw somewhere that they put plastic moulds around the young fruit, which then fill the shape of the mould...China, I think..
OMG I never noticed that until I saw your comment
Load More Replies...This makes me uncomfortable. Maybe it's because I'm already having leg pain tonight.
Reusing materials, looks comfy, is interesting, nope don't see the problem here.
Really sorry.
Serves Ken right for not leaving clearer instructions for the funeral home.
Looks like this would be uncomfortable. Bring cushions. Better yet, throw the cushions on the floor and sit there.
If this is someone's idea for a dentist's office I would hate to see their idea for the gynecologist.
There was a dentist who had an office like this when I was a kid. Scared me so much!
Yeah! It's the Children's Museum in San Jose, Costa Rica. Tbh it isn't the weirdest room at that place XD
Load More Replies...The wheels are a nice touch. They allow you and your partner to play some kind of agarian bumper-car game in the house.
Yep, and run over sibling toes. Just be careful to not run over dog toes
Load More Replies...These are art works by the Lalannes, very important French artists couple. Just in case you were wondering.
If I had a mansion with too much space and a bunch of silly stuff that never actually gets used, I'd put this in my 'french country' parlor with the vintage grissaile wallpaper.
This makes me want to be a kid again, take these to the top of the road my grandparents lived on (it was over half a mile straight up a mountain) mount up with an empty wrapping paper tube for my joust, make my cousin get on the other and just pitch off into the great unknown! I have soooo many scars from doing stuff like that on that road, there was only 3 families that lived up there and we were all related so we weren't in danger of traffic, just each other and our ideas!
This reminds me of a Golden Girls episode where Blanche's niece starts hooking up with a cop whose apartment was decorated like Miami Vice. Rose is sitting in a chair in the apartment and petting a sheep that looks just like that.
Luck of the Irish, perhaps. Luck of the stylish, I think not.
Load More Replies...I can see someone trying to get comfortable and the chair actually starts to feel comfy. Like it's molding to the shape of your body. By the time you realize it you're trapped, consumed by the marshmallow goodness that comes from a Lucky Charms chair. Someone walks by and comments that it's a nice chair. Quickly it slurps your shoelaces away, the last sign of you ever having been there.
Why were you downvoted for this? Ugh, people are so uptight apparently
Load More Replies...You dress as mustard and I'll be ketchup and we can have a saucy night together in bed
OK, Ted, let's go over this again. You do NOT rule the Roman Empire. You are not a ruler of ANY kind. Say it with me?
It looks more like the couch Gru had in Despicable Me but gold.
Load More Replies...At least provide an opening to put a pen or pencil in a handy location.
One of my favorite things is to sit by the pond and watch the different birds do this, their feathery butts in the air as their legs sort of flop around. I always get a laugh out of it!
This is one of those products on which I feel like folks who can just waste their money for show!
No, actually the heads are backwards...Think of the wings' orientation.😳
Load More Replies...When you are convinced that your small flat is actually a mansion...
What is the porpoise of this? Who put it dolph-in the lobby?
When the series finished Flipper retired and went in to a home...not rrealising that he'd be a seat
This w the apple, hotdog, egg, avocado, ice cream, burger and watermelon
When you’re in Emperor mood
I don't fancy trying to sleep 'under water', with an elephant floating above me. It's a big NOPE! from me.
It doesn't feel like a bedroom because it looks more like a bathroom but then feels like a butchers but can't be because of the bed.
Mother Nature always inspires
They were tripping on something when they made this, that's for sure
Load More Replies...When you‘re really like this pattern
I took ages but I would stare at the wall then sudden I could see a couch .
It’s like “where you going babe ? I said you could sit here “
Load More Replies...As the tornado struck many residents feared the movie Sharknado was real
Charly Armchair 1981.
By Roger Tallon 1967
Yet another BP post of "horrible" designs where most are, in fact, wonderful, whimsical, and beautiful.
The second part of the entries were pretty weird though. Especially the double amputee chair *shudder*
Load More Replies...Yeah, I didn't hate any of them, and loved most of them.
Load More Replies...Some of these are abominations (pig couch and human chairs, looking at you), but most of the rest are charming, clever, and quirky. Maybe we can stop shaming anything a little different? Not everyone is going for understated and tasteful. Some of us just want to have a little fun!
I'm getting the feeling some of the folks at BP don't know us and our tastes very well.
Yet another BP post of "horrible" designs where most are, in fact, wonderful, whimsical, and beautiful.
The second part of the entries were pretty weird though. Especially the double amputee chair *shudder*
Load More Replies...Yeah, I didn't hate any of them, and loved most of them.
Load More Replies...Some of these are abominations (pig couch and human chairs, looking at you), but most of the rest are charming, clever, and quirky. Maybe we can stop shaming anything a little different? Not everyone is going for understated and tasteful. Some of us just want to have a little fun!
I'm getting the feeling some of the folks at BP don't know us and our tastes very well.
