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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!

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.

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

I actually kind of like this, I’d feel like a mermaid princess or something sitting in that tub

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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."

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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.

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

Sorry it is the law. Someone has to do it. Why did the mushroom go to the party? Because he's a fungi!

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"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.

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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!"

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

Looks like it'sin someone's own backyard so I'm good with that on a clear night to see stars. IF...this is a Air B&B or rental, nope, just nope.

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

My guess would be this isn't a dentist, but at a science museum aimed at kids... start of the digestive tract exhibit or something like that

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

I think you're right. This was posted here before and someone mention that it was NOT a real dentist office.

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

It just needs better lighting. Obviously an orifice that's for small children. I mean office.

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

Social distance rules require to remove some of your teeth!! Sorry

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

I'm glad my seat is built-in (wheelchair), wouldn't want to try sitting on those.

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

The “OB” is separate from the “GYN.” Might be a language difference but it’s either OB or GYN or OBGYN— not OBG. Not a big deal of course I’m just being a**l 😅

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

Creepy, ...scary to younger children. Looks like something I'd dream about after the visit.

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

Oh at first I thought it was a strange "Boys room" and the teet was urinals...😆

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

Kind of expect the teeth to be toilets for some reason... this list is clearly massively messing with my brain

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

Oh FFS, don't show Nathaniel. He'll take this to another place

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

ISTR that's part of a children's museum, not a dentist's office.

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

It's been proven that our tongues don't have taste zones, so not only is this horrible to look at, it is scientifically incorrect.

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

Ok so you’re all checked in. Please just have a seat on the mandibular first molar and the doctor will be with you shortly.

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

Wherever it is, it has a widely debunked "taste bud map" on the floor/tongue, so probably not someplace science related.

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

I think I'd change dentists if they redid their office to look like this.

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

Jesus Christ, just.....why??? Fear of the dentist is a common fear so you decided to compound on their fear with this creepy s**t. I'd walk in, see that then walk right out. Ugh.

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

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

Don't you dare to sit here if you don't at least fart glitter and poop rainbows!!

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

Oh this is because of the mud. Its currently mud season in Kirov and people also put out old doors and wardrobe bits so you can get around the city without getting your shoes soaked or sucked off

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