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People Are Sharing The Worst Bathroom Design Fails They’ve Seen, And They’re Hilarious (30 Pics)
Piped water may be one of the greatest conveniences men have come up with but there's still plenty of terrible bathroom designs. Don't get me wrong, we at Bored Panda love creativity, but putting a bunk bed over a tub isn't thinking outside the box. Heck, I wouldn't even call it thinking. As a testament to our stupidity, we have compiled a list of some of the worst bathtub and shower designs, and they're as hilarious as they're impractical.
For more crappy designs, check out our earlier Bored Panda lists full of funny photos here, here, and here.
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#1
I Feel The Need To Tell The World Regular Faucets Are Ok
We as a society had to go through a lot of epic fails before we created today's bathroom. For centuries, people in big cities got their cooking and washing water from rivers or wells, limiting their consumption to pretty much what they could carry. They dumped their waste into brick-lined cesspits that would be emptied by the night soil men, who sometimes sold it as fertilizer. Liquid waste, on the other hand, would get thrown into gutters in the middle of the road.
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#2
There’s No Hope For Humanity. I Know That Now
The Guardian pointed out that in 1854, in the middle of a cholera epidemic in London, Dr John Snow (not to be confused with Jon Snow) mapped where victims died and found that the deaths seemed concentrated around one of those pumps, at 37 Broad Street. Interestingly, when he had the handle removed from the pump, the cholera epidemic stopped immediately. Thus, the first verifiable connection between human waste and disease was made.
#3
Electric Showers For Everyone!
After people realized that excrement + drinking water = death, parliament passed the Metropolitan Water Act to “make provision for securing the supply to the metropolis of pure and wholesome water”. As a result, pipes delivering water directly to homes started replacing public pumps.
#4
Attached Bath And Bedroom
The next trivial addition to this convenience was the toilet. Believe it or not, the invention had been around for a while. However, it was pretty useless without a water supply.
As it became really easy to just wash the poop away, there soon was so much fecal effluence, it started overflowing from the cesspits. The result of this design fail? Even more cholera and other diseases.
#5
I've Always Wanted An Apartment With A Bathtub, But This Is Certainly Not What I Envisioned
Architects, engineers and homeowners of the late 19th century didn't know what to do. A lot of people had washstands in their bedrooms, so at first they just stuck sinks and taps into them, and put the toilet into whatever closet in the hall or space under the stairs that they could find, hence the “water closet.” However, it didn’t make a lot of sense to run plumbing to every bedroom when it was cheaper to bring it all to one place, and the idea of the bathroom was born.
#6
Taking A Shower In A Hotel In China
Ryo Bakura 5 years ago
Well you don't want to slip recklessly, you could hurt yourself. And that would be stupid.
Since the early adopters, then as now, were the rich with a few rooms to spare, they were often lavish, with all the fixtures encased in wood like the commodes they replaced. But when the bathroom became mainstream and accessible to all classes, it got smaller (cheaper to build). Around 1910, the bathroom started looking pretty much the same way it does now.
#7
My Friend's Bathtub Handles. I-I Just.....what?
#8
My Mom Had Her Guest Bathroom Remodeled While She Was Out Of Town. She Wanted The Shower Head Up High So Tall People Didn't Have To Crouch Or Lean Way Back. Came Home To Find This, Which Shoots The Water Straight Across To The Opposite Wall
Nagawa (Cofa) Kishiki 5 years ago
The tall people no longer need to crouch or lean back, they just need a chair to stand on.
#9
Someone Peaked In High School Geometry
#10
The Shower In My Grandparents New Bathroom Is Very Nice, Except For One Small Problem...
#11
Whatever. Shut Up And Have A Salad Next Time If You Don’t Like It
Luis Milian 5 years ago
if my butt hits the wall after I have already showered, I would feel dirty.
#12
Shower Screen Guy Thought The Toilet Waste Was For The Shower And Screened The Wrong Section. Plumber Installed The Toilet Anyway
#13
Mother In Law’s Suite Is Finally Done!
#14
I Cringe Every Time I Step Foot In This Shower
#15
I Am Actually Speechless. I Mean In What Scenario Is This Required???? Fraternity Rush Week? And What Does One Store In That Prison Locker Built In?
#16
Guest Room Shower
#17
Booked A Hotel In Orlando Through Hotwire And They Gave Us This Room. No Partition Between The Shower, Bathtub, And Bed. I'm Traveling With My Teenage Daughter...
#18
Calgon, Take Me Away
#19
Shower Curtain At My Local Ymca
Luis Milian 5 years ago
eye contact when naked is more awkward than the nakedness. makes sense...lol
#20
The Controls For This Shower
#21
Just In Case You Want A Little Brick Oven Pizza With Your Bath. Sounds Fantastic Tbh
#22
Carpeted Stairs To Shower
#23
I've Always Wanted To Take Bath While Eating Breakfast
Luis Milian 5 years ago
I mean, the curtain gives you the privacy you need if other are having breakfast.
Frozengeckolover 5 years ago
Imagine sitting down to a nice dinner with your friends and family, when your weird aunt Carol (who got wine drunk while preparing the meal) takes off all her clothes and settles in for a nice, hot soak.
Ryo Bakura 5 years ago
Dining room/bathroom is bizarre enough, but then adding a freaking water cooler into the mix takes it to another level.
Frozengeckolover 5 years ago
What do you expect them to do, drink water from the bathtub? That would just be weird! 😅😅😅
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Sreekanth Acharya 5 years ago
You mean you've always wanted to take a bath while watching others eat breakfast.
Kathy Baylis 5 years ago
Is that a partition next to the mirror? Why not an actual wall instead of a retractable one?
Miranda Noble 5 years ago
I was trying to see if maybe there was like a sliding door, but nope. just wide open for the family and neighbors to see!!
R.s. Potter 5 years ago
I really don't want to know if there's a toilet in that bathroom that is also open to the dining room.
#24
The Placement Of This Bath Tub Faucet
#25
There’s A Special Place In Hell For A Powder Room Where The Red Vessel Sink Is The Least Offensive Thing
#26
Wanna Take A S**t? Gotta Climb Over The Tub First
Anne Bleakley 5 years ago
I've been in a suite like this - guaranteed there is a door into the bathroom probably where the wastebin is on the let.
#27
This Is The Room My Friend And I Got In Cuba. The Shower Wall Was A Window & You Could See Into The Entire Bathroom.. Even The Toilet
Julia Sippel 5 years ago
haha I stayed there too! My friend and I got to know each other on a whole new level if we didn't warn about bathroom use! The craziest thing, no one else at the resort was talking about how weird it was that we could watch each other shower and sh*t!
#28
The Way This Curved Shower Enclosure Fits A Square Base, Causing The Floor To Flood And Requiring An Extra Drain
#29
This Bathtub Looks Like Somebody Was Killed In It... Or Worse
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Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
I'm tired of seeing the same images from earlier threads reused over and over and over. Lazy Pandas, just stop.
Cristina Steele 5 years ago
The bathroom in our first house could have been pictured here. The previous owners wanted to call the master an “en suite” so they converted a teeny closet into a bathroom. You had literally 5 inches to squeeze between the edge of the sink vanity and the edge of the shower stall (which were diagonal to each other) to get to the toilet. I always had bruises from hitting either the vanity or the shower stall until we ended up gutting & renovating the bathroom.
Iggy 5 years ago
We moved into a house when I was 15 that had a bathroom with bright pink walls. That wasn't the problem. They had finished the room off with GOLD CARPET!! You can imagine how quickly that was got rid of!
Mary Rose Kent 5 years ago
Carpet in the bathroom—regardless of the hue—is just nasty!
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CookieNeerrrrd 5 years ago
Some of these design fails were so messed up I laughed. but still, I'd probably cry if this happened to me.
Raymond V. Kramer 3 years ago
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Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
I'm tired of seeing the same images from earlier threads reused over and over and over. Lazy Pandas, just stop.
Cristina Steele 5 years ago
The bathroom in our first house could have been pictured here. The previous owners wanted to call the master an “en suite” so they converted a teeny closet into a bathroom. You had literally 5 inches to squeeze between the edge of the sink vanity and the edge of the shower stall (which were diagonal to each other) to get to the toilet. I always had bruises from hitting either the vanity or the shower stall until we ended up gutting & renovating the bathroom.
Iggy 5 years ago
We moved into a house when I was 15 that had a bathroom with bright pink walls. That wasn't the problem. They had finished the room off with GOLD CARPET!! You can imagine how quickly that was got rid of!
Mary Rose Kent 5 years ago
Carpet in the bathroom—regardless of the hue—is just nasty!
Load More Replies... CookieNeerrrrd 5 years ago
Some of these design fails were so messed up I laughed. but still, I'd probably cry if this happened to me.
Raymond V. Kramer 3 years ago
I was looking for an appropriate clarification for modern bathroom models. I much appreciate, administrator, for sharing such awesome substance on this theme. Presently I have all I require about it. Here’s another enlightening substance for Modern Bathroom Models , you will get well-informed data about it here.
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