“Hardcore Is Not For Everybody”: This Instagram Account Collects Decor Items That Capture The Essence Of Bad Taste (35 Pics)
Taste is subjective, isn’t it? While some people find minimalist interior designs and perfectly staged aesthetics inspiring, others see them as downright boring. Getting sick and tired of posts where everything is filtered and carefully arranged, we love a bizarre-looking account that challenges our perspective.
We're talking about Decor Hardcore, an Instagram account that offers anything but bland, basic, or benign. Created by Berlin-based designer Ksenia Shestakovskaia, it showcases some of the most peculiar design choices out there. "Hardcore is not for everybody," she wrote in the description, and from the looks of it — she has a point.
If you have a passion for strange, wacky, and tacky things, this post might be just what you were looking for. Bored Panda has selected some of the most over-the-top images the account had to offer, so check them out right below. Upvote on the ones you liked most, and be sure to let us know what you think about them in the comments!
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It might come as no surprise that bizarre-looking items and weird design solutions are things that tend to grab our attention and not let it go. After all, there’s some amount of beauty in any imperfection, even when it leaves us surprised, delighted, or a bit shocked.
Today, people and projects that show the opposite of what is considered to be good taste often get branded as bold, courageous, and adventurous. And Ksenia Shestakovskaia is one of them. The textile and graphic designer created Decor Hardcore in 2015 as a collection of unusual images of curiosities she came across on the web.
"I was running into quite specific images and I started to collect them. I had to share it! I’d show these crazy pictures to people and they’d say, 'I remember my Grandmother had something like that,'" she told AnOther Magazine.
I actually kind of like this, I’d feel like a mermaid princess or something sitting in that tub
Agreed. This is just someone sick to death of their neighbours. I feel their pain.
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Until some a*****e with a drone started taking pics
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Why is this even on this list? This is just someone who was sick of living in a place with no trees, for whatever reason. Maybe because the wide open space is depressing. It is like a wasteland without trees.
This is probably in the middle of farm fields. They plant trees like this to serve as windbreaks and I'm sure they love the privacy too.
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Half of the homes on the plains of the US look like this as they are surrounded by trees where the wind always blows. In the winter those trees keep the 12 foot drifts from blocking your front door. In the spring they choke the dirt thrown up from every farmer plowing so your whole home isn't covered in a layer of dust. In the summer when the ground around the home is radiating the heat back at you, they provide shade and as well as transpiration cooling. The act of photosynthesis as the trees suck water up the branches and release it into the air lowers the temperature of your home several degrees. Most importantly, until you've spent time somewhere where the wind blows incessantly for months at a time, you can't really comprehend how much it destroys your soul because you never get quiet. Those trees save marriages by providing a temporary reprieve.
So what kind of house do you search for? Well, i hate people so..... Okay say no more!!!
Why do so many here assume it's a house for people who hate compagny and insist on complete privacy and solitude. It can be perfect for social people who like to life in a more natural setting and surrounded by wildlife.
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My house looks like this. Most of my neighbors never replanted trees after the last big hurricane, and I am providing the only home for wildlife in my neighborhood. (Also, I don't want to see my neighbors with their desertification projects) This design only makes sense to me.
a green wind break in northern Wisconsin or northern Minnesota... this can save a lot on winter heating bills... not tacky, very practical... I'm sure the owners enjoy the privacy too... nurseries in the upper midwest sell trees in bulk that make the best sort of windbreaks...
I've seen this picture before, and think it was in Kansas, where this would be a plus thing, blocking winds.
Shade in summer, protection from cold wind in winter. I have seen it with deciduous trees on the south facing side so in summer when the trees are in full leaf, they provide shade from the sun. In winter the trees are bare and let the warm sun hit the house. Coniferous trees would provide a barrier to winds all year, especially winter. When your house is in the middle of farmland you would like some protection.
For anyone who lives out on the flats, this is done to create a wind-break and add some shade. Rural folks understand this ...
Practical, not tacky. Farmers would have evergreens surtounding the houses as it cuts down on the wind and blowing snow. Helps keep the heat in winter more in the house.
You would feel like you're in the forest with no one around. 💯% 😃yes please.
OK y'all need to redo this to show what's in the title because so far you're failing this is lovely. My gram-gram's place was almost like this with really tall hedges until right before her death and it was awesome
Most people who have homes out in the boonies do this. How is this weird or bad taste??????
While the nearest house is 3 miles away, the HOA is still very serious about privacy hedges...
This is both brilliant and depressing. You get seclusion, but at the price of being the only place with trees...They should plant more! Make a personal forest!
Looks like perfection to me. (If I could find a way in!)
I'm not sure if I want to kill my neighbors for cutting down all the trees or applaud this guy for planting all of the trees...
Looks peaceful, unless you live in the Midwest and the wind is always blowing and a tree falls on your house. But I wouldn't really know bc I live in the PNW and most of our houses are like this already.
This is a model. Unless it's the centerpiece of the dining table, no problem. I think they stole it from their kid's train diorama.
This type of tree-surround landscaping is for weather protection, esp. in areas like Nebraska where cold winds whip thru.
If you live in the north, this would be sound thinking. It would protect you from the wind.
The way the world is right now, along with how people are, this is perfect
So, they wanted privacy. Why is that bad taste. So for this whole thing has not shown any real "bad taste"
For privacy? But would also take away sunsets, sunrises, storm clouds on the horizon. Looks like it in a very large prairie, but that would be claustrophobic for me.
On the prairies many homes and barns have tree wind breaks surrounding them. It's not tacky, it's practical when you live on flat terrain with no other natural protection.
What's wrong with this? A little privacy and a break from the wind.
The trees are a windbreak so the house doesn't get swallowed in a snow drift.
The beginning of a horror movie " a friend of my that you guys don't know and never will be mentioned again has a nice house far far away without WIFI and not a soul around who's interested?"
Some people cherish their privacy. And then again, some people are NUTS !
The forest was there when the house was built. Then all but his wood was taken by greed. In America, you have to replant every acre you clear-cut.
Our is a version of this...except the trees continue. Nearest neighbor - one side 1/4 mile the other sides...over a mile. No further development ever on all sides. :)
Someone miscatagorized this. Not tacky, but an Introverts Dream.
This is the dream! Lol. I'm in the process of buying a house right now and if I could find a property like this I'd buy it in a second. Who wants neighbors? Or atleast.. who wants to see them?
This is my idea of zombie. . . .great fields of fire, totally flat . . . .nice
What are they doing in there that they need such privacy. They need a social service call immediately
Ever since she started posting on Instagram, she has amassed quite the audience. As of today, the account has more than 375K devoted fans who admire her online collection full of pink living rooms and rose quartz baths. "At the beginning, I was wondering what would happen if I ran out of material because I post a lot," she said. "But every time I went on, I realized it was endless. It’s like an ocean of treasures! So I’m not concerned."
When it comes to design, she mentioned that she sees emotional connection as the most important thing. "It has to create a little heart-pinch. I’m pinched quite often when I see these pictures, I’m completely overwhelmed." Other times, she comes across objects that are very aesthetically displeasing but deserve to be noticed. "Sometimes it’s so extreme that I have to post it! These might be things I would never buy for myself, or as a present, but the pictures are incredible."
I want one with a Cheshire Cat and Alice Through The Looking Glass theme.
Michael Garrett, one of her best friends and business partner, later joined curating the account and helped develop Decor Hardcore even further. The duo has created a line of merch, a creative studio, and they’ve even got the opportunity to partner up on campaigns and projects with brands like Gucci and Versace.
"Fashion started to bore me to death," Shestakovskaia told Vogue. "I was in the same place with fashion, bored and disillusioned," added Garrett. "When Ksenia began showing me early glimpses of Decor Hardcore, which at the time was still just her private collection of eBay images, I got hooked."
Their vision "is all about not taking design or anything too seriously, and proving that heaven is indeed a place on earth," she told i-D. Well, if heaven is full of pink velvet, over-the-top bathrooms, and inflatable bouncy castles, it seems they have succeeded.
Shestakovskaia is constantly keeping an eye out for the perfect picture and looks for a range of criteria, whether it’s unexpected solutions or simply lucky accidents. The designer enjoys coming across the story behind an image, feeling the atmosphere, and understanding people’s decisions. "Decor is not only my work, it's my entire approach to life, my attitude, dreams, and sometimes nightmares," she said. "When I'm not working on it, I'm fantasizing about situations or things, and then I try to discover if they exist."
"Decor Hardcore is about the variety of choices, not about certain aesthetics," Shestakovskaia added. "So much design is confined to 'must have' or 'must be,' looking proper, and trying to make sense. Our brand fulfills the lack of a certain offer for fun, and something unpolished or unexpected. To me, it's natural that a girl would have a bath that looks like a seashell because it's beautiful and magical. I just look around myself, or I search for things that entertain and make me happy. Apparently, they make many other people happy, too!"
Does anyone else feel we need more context on a lot of these images?
Note: this post originally had 112 images. It’s been shortened to the top 35 images based on user votes.
Many are over the top and tacky, but there are so many on here that should not be in a list of "bad taste" decor.
'bad taste' seems to be the new synonym for 'not what the majority likes'. Since when are people so much into uniform design?
Seems like a lot of BP’s have good, or at least odd, Taste. And it’s a well known fact - I like odd!
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Most of these are awesome. The only tacky thing about this is the dull and lifeless ones who think these are tacky. Get a life.
According to this post, my taste is pretty bad. I enjoyed most of them as I found them creative, bold and different. Nothing I want in my own home, but fun to look at.
It seems like the people who live there would be fun to hang out with
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Gotta admit I liked quite a few of these. But then I've never been accused of being tasteful.
I liked quite a few, some where ok and only a few I disliked. I thought they were fun and joyful.
Most of these were fun! I wouldn't decorate my house that way. But I'd definitely go visit somewhere like that!
So many of these are nice, but over the top. Not bad taste per se, but definitely too much of a good thing.
Some of them would be nice to visit, a hotel say, just not to live with
Some things are not "bad taste". Why does everything needs to be "same"? Some of the designs are just fun, funny, whimsy...
I would love to eat a bunch of mushrooms and go to anyone of these places
Half of these I refuse to believe are real, they just look too perfect
My takeaway here is that waaaaay too many people are over the top obsessed with the colour pink.
I disagree with these all being bad taste. A lot of them are a ton to take in, even difficult to do so. But a lot of them are cute and pleasant in a way that like. I respect it and if I lived in, I would be super obsessed with it. Because they are beautiful from different sorts of beauty. Not being minimalist doesn't make something ugly.
I think most of these are beautiful and imaginative and I wish I could afford them!
mane of these are definitely not "bad taste"- the title is extremely misleading
Many are over the top and tacky, but there are so many on here that should not be in a list of "bad taste" decor.
'bad taste' seems to be the new synonym for 'not what the majority likes'. Since when are people so much into uniform design?
Seems like a lot of BP’s have good, or at least odd, Taste. And it’s a well known fact - I like odd!
Load More Replies... Most of these are awesome. The only tacky thing about this is the dull and lifeless ones who think these are tacky. Get a life.
According to this post, my taste is pretty bad. I enjoyed most of them as I found them creative, bold and different. Nothing I want in my own home, but fun to look at.
It seems like the people who live there would be fun to hang out with
Load More Replies... Some of these should come with an explanation as to what we are looking at.
Gotta admit I liked quite a few of these. But then I've never been accused of being tasteful.
I liked quite a few, some where ok and only a few I disliked. I thought they were fun and joyful.
Most of these were fun! I wouldn't decorate my house that way. But I'd definitely go visit somewhere like that!
So many of these are nice, but over the top. Not bad taste per se, but definitely too much of a good thing.
Some of them would be nice to visit, a hotel say, just not to live with
Some things are not "bad taste". Why does everything needs to be "same"? Some of the designs are just fun, funny, whimsy...
I would love to eat a bunch of mushrooms and go to anyone of these places
Half of these I refuse to believe are real, they just look too perfect
My takeaway here is that waaaaay too many people are over the top obsessed with the colour pink.
I disagree with these all being bad taste. A lot of them are a ton to take in, even difficult to do so. But a lot of them are cute and pleasant in a way that like. I respect it and if I lived in, I would be super obsessed with it. Because they are beautiful from different sorts of beauty. Not being minimalist doesn't make something ugly.
I think most of these are beautiful and imaginative and I wish I could afford them!
mane of these are definitely not "bad taste"- the title is extremely misleading
