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Have you ever walked into someone’s house and wondered “what on earth were you thinking?” Some people are born to design or decorate. Some get by on the bare minimum of creativity. And others clearly have no cooking clue. While trends change as times move, there are certain things that will just always be a “no!”
Instagram account "Please Hate These Things" has been created to warn you about the biggest mistakes you could ever make while decorating or designing your living space. The brains behind the page is an established interior designer called Dina Holland. She started it as a laugh for her friends, but it's grown to clock up and impressive 616, ooo followers. As the account's bio notes, it's a gallery of "absurd, ugly & just plain stupid things in home design." Bored Panda has picked the worst of the worst from the page so you can check yourself before you wreck yourself during your next home design project...This post may include affiliate links.
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Bill Swallow 12 months ago
Someone patiently playing the odds to get rid of his mother-in-law and never be accused of a crime.
Bob Brooce 12 months ago
There's no way their liability insurance company knows about this. Or they don't have liability insurance.
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Floeckchen 12 months ago
Did you play "What remains of Edith Finch"? It also has a house like this
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Cpt. Christan "Panda Bombero" 12 months ago
I guess they got a really big discount on windows. This looks like some Kentucky engineering and home additions.
Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 11 months ago
This can't possibly be up to code! Even if the code is from 1930!
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Tabitha 12 months ago
Because some people are simply gross and disgusting. That’s why.
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Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 11 months ago
How much you want to bet its in a men's bathroom in a club or something? They surely don't think it's in good taste? Or any kind of taste, actually
Angie May 12 months ago
Way too tempted to do what? Please elaborate I'd love to hear it.
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Bob Brooce 12 months ago
I'd guess somebody added a 2nd floor to a place that didn't quite have the necessary height.
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Kise Miarse 12 months ago
I feel like there was a better way to handle this than to create a "concussion hallway"
Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 11 months ago
Need a header to support upstairs? Nah, leave it. Cheaper and a conversation starter
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Campy 12 months ago
They're really good light fixtures but after a few years they start to sag.
Bob Brooce 12 months ago
I really hope that this is just an example of very good photoshop skills.
Brenda Spagnola-Wilson 11 months ago
Jesus Christ! Are they afraid of the dark? And I'm sorry, but those are ceiling lights, not wall sconces. They need a "boob job!"
Tom Brincefield 11 months ago
That's a really common fixture. I have 2 in my house. Not in the same room.
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Imjust jim 12 months ago
Still nice to be able to pour boiling oil on carollers and trick or treaters.
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Anne Roberts 12 months ago
You never know when you'll have to fend off an invading army. Where's the drawbridge?
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ZGutr 12 months ago
Not bad indeed... nice and creative work actually! I DO have doubts about the function of the door handle. A standard one would barely work in that position/angle
Load More Replies... Sand Ers 11 months ago
If you can't hide it, highlight it. Common technique in photography.
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Inigo Montoya 12 months ago
Oops! Sorry about the "christening" there, my aim is off.
Load More Replies... Lily bloom 11 months ago
I imagine this started as a joke with one and became a game of seeking thrift store jesuses to accumulate this collection
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The Announcer 12 months ago
And within 3 months everyone on the street had two inch thick glasses
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BossyCloud 11 months ago
K but also why is the grab bar above the toilet like that? What if you need to get into the tank?
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Karl der Große 12 months ago
We have a rectangular sink - corners are a bad design choice for anything that is supposed to drain.
Kise Miarse 12 months ago
To be fair, I don't know where you would find a replacement toilet seat that is square. I'd probably say "eff it" and do this too.
Debby Keir 12 months ago
Problem is that you can only buy the odd shaped seats from whoever manufactured that toilet - they know it, and charge the earth. The time to think about this is *before* you've installed the fancy one - buy a fancy one that a standard seat fits.
WorkAholic1 12 months ago
This is the first square toilet I've ever seen. I hope it's the last one I ever see!
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Kise Miarse 12 months ago
I am a short person and I do not approve. Also . . . how is the back of that fridge getting any ventilation? The bottom vent doesn't do it.
AP 12 months ago (edited)
my parents did this exact thing in our house growing up (fridge wasn't elevated but the oven was and both stuck thru the wall) the garage was on the other side, so they had plenty ventilation. they did this because the kitchen was too small to accommodate a fridge and oven when they remodeled it with extra cabinets and a breakfast booth. if i had to guess on why they raised it, it would be because they were tall people or had bad backs and had difficulty bending over to look in the fridge or oven
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Patrick Casavant 11 months ago
Come on. This was obviously installed to accommodate tall people. Oven like that absolutely no problem, i can guarantee you the ventilation is on the back of this wall. Use your brain instead of being shocked and offended by everything and anything 😂
Binny Tutera 11 months ago
When it comes time to replace the appliances it could be almost impossible to get the same size. Used to work in an appliance store.
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Pages ByTheSea 12 months ago
P. Diddy's breakfast bar. Out of shot to the left is a 55 gallon drum of baby oil.
Vira 11 months ago
Scrolled down to see if anyone said this. It looks like a trap
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Ece Cenker 12 months ago
Why Da Fück would anyone make a door that goes all the way up to the ceiling?!
Tom Brincefield 11 months ago
Right! Because ceilings that are only 72 inches high don't exist! 🙄
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Kise Miarse 12 months ago
It's murder on the way up but . . . . actually yeah you're gonna die on the way down too.
Imjust jim 12 months ago
For people who ARE handicapped or people who want to BE handicapped? That is the question.
StumblingThroughLife 12 months ago
They should make people designing these, try it out themselves.
Upstaged75 12 months ago
This one is a joke. They put the sign there even though it's not really a wheelchair ramp.
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King Of Birbz 12 months ago
if it's genius where do you put your right leg
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Binny Tutera 11 months ago
Should’ve turned the chair and shortened the back legs so a person could sit at the table properly.
Tom Brincefield 11 months ago
If the chair was turned the way you want, the back of the chair would be too close to the table for anyone to fit in it.
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Anxious Aardvark 11 months ago
I've been in bars and cafes in Europe where they might have done this. Tables so close together you can't get out of your seat until you find an opportunity to move the table if someone is seated behind you.
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BossyCloud 11 months ago
Why would they not have made the last window into a door that lines up with the real door so that the picture actually fits instead of looking so out of place?
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Anxiety Panda 12 months ago
I thought it was a sweet little house until I found the door. Now it is an abomination. Burn it down and try again.
Still Going 12 months ago
I didn't even see the door at first, it did a good job hiding!
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Just need to give it a focal point, like a cozy sitting area or potted garden.
Will Cable 12 months ago
I'd put a fake door in the middle and hide the real door with a trellis and plants, kind of a secret entrance.
brie sansotta 11 months ago
Put 2 exact duplicate photos of door evenly spaced next to real door. Let guests guess!
Seymoura Butts 11 months ago
Ugh! Another example of why BP needs to add the zoom function back! I can see it, but I want to zoom in to hate it more.
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Linda van A. 12 months ago (edited)
There's a lady who's sure, all that glitters is gold and she's buying a stairway to ... the wall?
Joanne Earle 11 months ago
I would actually LOVE this for my stuffed animals, or books or jars of marbles and beach glass....
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Lily bloom 11 months ago
Maybe the siding shouldnt have been built around the old railing in the first place?
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Christos Arvanitis 12 months ago
Vinyl siding. That is where the previous post was. They re-did the deck and the new post is in a different spot now.
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Baby Tuna 11 months ago
But it looks overly complicated. Birds will love it though 🐦
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Sue Ellen Jensen 11 months ago
There's absolutely no architectural reason for this monstrosity.
Curt Harvey 11 months ago
$30k MINIMUM for the labor to get someone to shingle that monstrosity.
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Janissary35680 12 months ago
First you have to defeat all the minions, right?
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Michael None 12 months ago
Europeans always complaining about the door gap so you get rid of it and they're still complaining.
Jerry Wyant 11 months ago
This is the "other stalls are all full, but my triple bean burrito is kicking in and I can't wait" toilet. Guaranteed to have ALL of the stalls emptied in under 60 seconds.
Patricia the Grey 11 months ago
Looks like something I see in a pee dream, where I have to go but can't find the right circumstances--privacy, cleanliness, etc.
Bill Swallow 12 months ago
No. And while I'm on the subject, I would like a word with whoever popularized granite (and similar) kitchen countertops that have multicolored stone patterning instead of being a single uniform color. They are nearly IMPOSSIBLE to see stains, dirt, crumbs, whatever, and are a real pain in the neck when you need to clean up after cooking. FAR too easy to miss something that needs wiped up / cleaned off.
Abraxas59 12 months ago
Pretty sure that’s the point 😂no cleaning required for lazy people maybe lol
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ZGutr 12 months ago
Someone spent seriouse time on measuring, check, measure, check, measure, check, measure, check, measure, check, measure, check, measure, check, measure, check, measure, check, measure ....... cut cut cut cut
Bill Swallow 12 months ago
Lemme guess - a house converted into apartments, and the owner wants the utility guy to be able to read the meters without actually having access to the box?
Bob Brooce 12 months ago
The holes don't seem to go all the way through, so when the door is closed it looks perfectly fine. That makes this a simple solution to the problem of closing the meters inside a limited space. That said, I suspect having the meter boxes inside such a small space is a code violation.
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Karina 12 months ago
for a moment i thought the "joke" was a cat lying in the nest of wires. There is no cat, is there?
Panda Panda Bo Banda 11 months ago
The joke is that the used 14 gauge wire when they should have used 12 gauge
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Stygtand 12 months ago
I was so annoyed by the cables , i did not notice the lamppost at first.
Ece Cenker 12 months ago (edited)
I think this space used to be a shop? And meant to go on as one? This doesn't look like it is in a city where you would find garages under homes.
Bettye McKee 11 months ago (edited)
A garage rendered unusable because of that pole.
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Unsure where to start...the rats nest of wiring...the 4 small bolts holding up one whole side of the balcony or the pole smack dead center if the driveway?
Uncle Schmickle 12 months ago
This happened to me once when I bought a just completed home in a new estate. The electric supply company had to move the light pole. Obviously someone hadn't read the plans.
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Daniel Atkins 12 months ago
The wall stud is most likely to the right of out let just a poor placement of the trim
Bob Brooce 12 months ago
The box could have been moved regardless of where the stud is, but the hole would have to be patched. What's stupid about this is that the trim could have been run straight down and most plugs would still fit. Untitled-6...c7472c.jpg 
Annlu Smith 12 months ago
Just need a wooden outlet cover that could have been cut to fit against the trim. Have this situation near some of my doors when I added wider door trim.
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Tabitha 12 months ago (edited)
I wouldn’t be so sure of that, if you had to live in it. See, I used to like pink when I was a kid. But then we moved into a house where I got what was obviously the previous owners’ daughter’s room. It was floor to ceiling pink. Pink carpet, pink paint on the doors, pink wallpaper. I had to live in it until my parents got around to redoing my room. Having to live in that Pepto-Bismol nightmare absolutely killed my liking for pink. When my parents asked me what color I wanted my room done in, I said blue. They asked if I wanted to keep any of the pink, and I said absolutely not. So I ended up with a lovely tranquil blue bedroom. Shame too, because the wallpaper was a lovely Japanese print that I actually liked, except the entire background was pink—-and if you know anything about Japanese art, you know there’s a lot of appreciation for the blank spaces between the people and objects in the picture, so the wallpaper print had a load of blank pink space on. Had it been just about any other color, I would’ve kept it.
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Kise Miarse 12 months ago
I mean - I guess that's one way to hide a pipe. Though now you're kinda stuck with that shelving unit.
Matthew Currie 12 months ago
I would think the next step would be to blank off the bottom shelf. Or put in a door, and throw random stuff in there that nobody needs to see.
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Bob Brooce 12 months ago
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Tabitha 12 months ago
Toilet’s not heavy duty and painted gold, so it, and the rest of the plumbing for that matter, wouldn’t be able to accommodate one of Von ShitzinPants’ massive BMs.
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Keerthi Vardhan 12 months ago
No one: you take the 11, I'll take the 2 o clock. Put sniper at 6.
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The Announcer 12 months ago
"Sorry, we can't center the entrance to the door because of the gutter downspout."
Tabitha 12 months ago
If you’re going for a grand-looking front entrance, be sure you take measurements and think it through first. If this wasn’t a DIY, then that contractor should definitely have known better. Then again, maybe they did, but the homeowner was a real a*****e and insisted they build that entrance exactly like they said to, so the contractor decided to take their money and give them exactly what they wanted.
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Data1001 12 months ago
I'm sure there are no 2-year-old bits of dried up toothpaste and soap scum stuck in between those rocks.
Tabitha 12 months ago (edited)
I don’t even want to think about what could be stuck between those rocks, because I prefer to keep my food down.
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Panda Panda Bo Banda 11 months ago
The sink is such a disaster that I didn't even notice the wall
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Bill Swallow 12 months ago
Looks like a Looney Tune where you just *know* sooner or later some poor hapless cat is going to get dragged through that downspout. Backwards.
Data1001 12 months ago
Isn't this done to slow down the flow of water so that it doesn't come out the bottom with as much force?
Bob Brooce 12 months ago
Maybe by a moron. There are all sorts f things that c an be done where the water comes out to deal with volume and velocity. This monstrosity requires that the one elbow doesn't leak and that the temperature never drops below freezing. That there are shadows that seem to be from tree branches without leaves makes me think the second condition hasn't been met.
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Kise Miarse 12 months ago
If only they made a special plate with spaces for two switches . . .
Bob Brooce 12 months ago
I'm rushing straight out to talk to a patent lawyer first thing tomorrow morning.
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The Announcer 12 months ago
Flipping off everyone and showing the junk at the same time. A big FU to the neighbors.
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Keerthi Vardhan 12 months ago
I can't imagine something rotten falling on that and the smell lasting a century.
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nomnomborkbork 12 months ago
Obviously designed from the inside point of view without caring about the outside elevation. Tsk tsk.
Keerthi Vardhan 12 months ago
Why do people even do this? It looks like some cartoon show or whack a mole on the windows stuff
Vivian McBride 12 months ago
There's probably a stairway in the middle. The windows provide lighting.
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zims 12 months ago
The back of the cabinet is cut to accommodate the sink. Having a cabinet with a gaping hole in the back isn't useful, and the sink will take up a solid third of the storage space available. And the lunatics are trying to sell it for $55.
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Abraxas59 12 months ago
Erm I’m a white witch and I can assure you lol we do not have windows like THAT 😂
Load More Replies... Christos Arvanitis 12 months ago
Very common in New England, especially Vermont and New Hampshire. A cool little quirk...
Nancy Lynch 11 months ago
It's a witch window from New England. A witch can't fly into your house because there's a crooked window.
Panda Panda Bo Banda 11 months ago (edited)
The window is actually level. The floor is at a 45 degree angle.
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K Reed 12 months ago
How exactly does that excuse the rest of the bathroom?
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Data1001 12 months ago
Yeah, those brackets don't look nearly strong enough.
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Keerthi Vardhan 12 months ago
I don't want to be found dead with my pants down and somebody taking a look at what I dumped and remembering me that way. Imagine explaining to people how that happened.
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Bill Swallow 12 months ago
Just waiting for a janitor to come along with a dripping, soaking wet mop.
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Panda Panda Bo Banda 11 months ago
I think it's for breastfeeding, which doesn't make it much better.
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Panda Panda Bo Banda 11 months ago
Why didn't they just make the whole counter a few inches deeper??? 😭
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Kise Miarse 12 months ago
I'm thinking maybe there used to be a porch there and they didn't want to build a new one.
Panda Panda Bo Banda 11 months ago
The worst part is you have to climb a step to get to the left or right sides
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BM Khalid Hasan 12 months ago
The thoughts of the guy are actually genius. It followed the physics!
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Karl der Große 12 months ago
My mom got me a clown cow once. I couldn't sleep because I had run out of things to have nightmares about.
BookFanatic 12 months ago
I know I've entirely missed the point, but the triceratops riding the killer clown cow is making me snort-laugh.
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Carl Roberts 12 months ago (edited)
Not so much a design fail, but more of a buying the wrong type of range fail. Should have a slide-in range, not a freestanding range. For those confused by the terminology... https://www.whirlpool.com/blog/kitchen/slide-in-vs-freestanding-range.html
Fraxinus excelsior 12 months ago
Anyone else think it looks like a centre island in the middle of a mausoleum?
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DowntownStevieB 12 months ago
This is fine. A lot of old homes weren't made with indoor plumbing, so when they added it, bathrooms got creative.
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Mike F 12 months ago
It would be a bit¢h to haul your carcass up those stairs.
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Montanavanna 12 months ago
Bad idea, mountains move around, they are not static things. And that rock looks crumbly as fu.
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Bill Swallow 12 months ago
"Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean. And so between the both of them, they licked the platter clean."
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Wendy P 12 months ago
We literally just had a new home built and our plumber put the clean out too low. I just baseboarded over it. I have never used a clean out in my life, so I figure I can always pull off the baseboard. I was really ticked about that. But what do you do after the fact?
Slap Shot 12 months ago
You should have inspected the house and not signed off until it was fixed.
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Grant Caldwell 12 months ago
And you might get an achievement or open a hidden level!
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Floeckchen 12 months ago
Would have propably taken way too long to rearrange them after construction works
Panda Panda Bo Banda 11 months ago
Looks more like a "not my problem" situation
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Tabitha 12 months ago (edited)
Let me guess. There used to be a large glass window next to the door, and a smaller one above it, but they both got smashed and the building owner is too cheap to replace them, so the whole entryway is no longer secure, but wide open to anyone, including people who don’t live there. Real swell for the occupants. /s
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beck speck 12 months ago
I actually think the idea is cool just not in the kitchen maybe.......... maybe in a living room or sitting room. My university had live trees inside one of the study halls it was kinda cool
Montanavanna 12 months ago
When done well it can look good. Dead center middle of kitchen? I don't think so. That freezer drawer probably can't open all the way, that rock mulch is a daily chore to keep clean and here is a fun fact, trees grow, your house isn't flexible to accommodate that. This is a nightmare scenario.
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Imjust jim 12 months ago
The family that....together, stays together - not that they have any choice whatsoever
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Keerthi Vardhan 12 months ago
It's nice red neck engineering.ore like the military. Male stuff up with whatever you find.
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Data1001 12 months ago
Hey, sometimes you have to come up with creative solutions to bizarre circumstances.
Stygtand 12 months ago
Yeah, but that does not mean its a good solution. There are far better ways to solve this.
Load More Replies... Weasel Wise 12 months ago
I have something VERY similar on the huge sunroof space in our house. In the summer, it turns the upstairs into an oven if it's not covered.
Mary Beth Miller 12 months ago
I did something similar to the skylight in my bedroom. Way too bright without the 'curtain'.
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Data1001 12 months ago
I assume it's the rainspouts that we're supposed to be looking at here? Without the sloping angle, the rain wouldn't have much downward momentum.
Panda Panda Bo Banda 11 months ago
But the rain gutters aren't at an angle
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Bill Swallow 12 months ago
Works for me. Might not be the most esthetic, but I am tired of pitch-dark living spaces. Put me on Team Well-Lit.
Mary Tonningsen 11 months ago (edited)
I'm thinking this looks like a dining area or recreation room for a group home or board & care facility. And all those lights would come in extra handy if the residents are older and can't see well.
Slap Shot 12 months ago
If that’s your turd color maybe you should see a doctor.
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Paloma Vita 11 months ago
I was thinking the same thing.. I am not too fond of the sink but everything else works for me.
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Glen Ellyn 12 months ago
I think the point is that one of the upper windows is behind the chimney. Other than that, I like it, too.
Load More Replies... Kelly Scott 12 months ago
Someone near me recently built a house with a detached garage in front of it. OK, so limited land up here. But they put two huge dormers on each side of the garage roof. I'm assuming there's a room up there. One of the dormers looks out at the road. The other dormer...looks directly back at a second story window in the house, maybe 4 feet away. You gotta wonder.
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halazia 12 months ago
This is actually an old prison turned into an apartment building. It's in the US I think.
Panda Panda Bo Banda 11 months ago
At least they don't have to worry about break-ins
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Carl Roberts 12 months ago
Where's the design fail? This is clearly a basement bathroom with a couple of kitty litter boxes
Karina 12 months ago
the human toilet looks less than clean enough for a cat
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Lexi 12 months ago
Has the toilet been installed backwards? That weird bulge at the front should be at the back shouldn't it? It could be a design i'm not familiar with though.
Kelly Scott 12 months ago
This how old time toilets used to look. There's even a kit in miniature to make one like it: https://oakridgestores.com/dollhouse/1-inch-scale-dollhouse/1-scale-bathroom-furniture/chrysnbon-1-inch-scale-dollhouse-miniature-bathroom-furniture-f-230-victorian-bathroom-kit-plastic-cb2111/
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