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50 Times Common Sense Went Over The Heads Of These Interior Designers
Good design is about finding the delicate yet pleasing balance between form and function. Though a lot depends on what you want to get done, a good rule of thumb is to keep your designs simple, so that they’re easily understood, practical, and aesthetic. But some people throw the rulebook out the window into the dumpster. And then they wing it.
Even though bad home interior designs are something you should practice social distancing from, you can’t deny that they can be hilarious… as long as it’s not your home we’re talking about! Bored Panda wanted to make you laugh and feel better about having to stay in your lovely home during the lockdown, so we’re bringing you the funniest, most facepalm-worthy interior design fails that prove common sense is actually quite rare.
Are you in the mood for some more horrendous examples of design? Well, once you’re done scrolling through this list and upvoting your fave horrible design pics, we invite you to check out earlier posts about design fails here, here, and here.
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Steps That You Can't See
Up The Drain It Goes
My Uncle's House Got A Bathroom Without A Door, Literally The First Thing You See When You Enter The House
Designer Dieter Rams is one of the world’s brightest experts when it comes to design that’s done well. Back in the 1970s, he said that the world was full of “an impenetrable confusion of forms, colors, and noises” and then went on to create his 10 principles for good design. In our opinion, he expressed timeless rules that are as important now as they were back then.
For Rams, good design has to be innovative but also useful. It can’t sacrifice form or function for one or the other: it has to be a blend of both. If a product is self-explanatory, even better! That goes for designs everywhere—if something is over-designed, it can create confusion.
My Friend's Under-The-Stairs "Bathroom" Where The Toilet Is Diagonal And Partially Installed Into The Carpeted Wall
Can't Stop Thinking About This Sink
Kitchen Made By A Sofa Maker
Similarly, Rams argues that good design is honest, long-lasting, friendly to the environment, has a shelf life longer than current trends, and does away with non-essentials. In short, aim for purity. Show the essence of the design. Do away with what’s unnecessary. More is less.
However, we’re not the only ones who think that bad designs can be a lot of fun (and not just a warning about what to avoid doing). The founders of the Ugly Design Instagram page, Jonas Nyffenegger and Sébastien Mathys, told Bored Panda in an earlier interview that bad designs jump out at people from the screen and grab their attention.
At Least You Don't Have To Reach For It
The Almighty Toilet Throne
All It Needs Is A Jukebox And A Soda Fountain
What’s more, atrocious designs also keep on surprising people. Just when you think you’ve reached the bottom of the (Un)Aesthetic Abyss, you realize that it was just the tip of the Iceberg of Bad Taste. What’s more, the founders pointed out that the world would be a very boring place if everything looked tasteful and nice.
Imagine Having To Scrub Or Clean It
so if you filled in the gaps with an epoxy resin, it might be cool, but this looks impossible to keep clean as it is.
I Almost Fell Down And Rolled My Ankle On This
New Kitchen Style
My Barbie had a similar kitchen.... in 1991. She has hired herself an interior designer since and remodeled.
Yes, I confirm. I treated them. Is it time for my promotion yet?
Load More Replies...They better! I paid good money for my jojo siwa kitchen!
Load More Replies...I just had to say I like your name, unusual and fun
Load More Replies...See, I'd be wondering if it was going to be Barbie walking through that door...or Freddy Krueger.
Imagine waking up in the morning And the alarm gives out a warning and thinking you'll never make it on time By the time you grab your books And you give yourself a look you're at the corner just in time to see the bus fly by
Load More Replies...I was thinking Lisa Frank had barfed in there. Maybe they were partying together.
Load More Replies...Of COURSE it had to have a Pineapple (shudder) where are the Flamingos? (Cringe).
Hi, kid's and what we are all going to cook today in playdough kitchin is......
Little girls can be designers too. All it's missing is a unicorn, somewhere.
You know there is Hello Kittie decor in the living room. You just know it.
that thingy covering the side of the cabinet looks like the ones on the children's bikes
Not too fond of the plastic party streamers however I must the commenters that I love this color combination I think it's super fun. I like how they left the cupboards White to not overwhelm.The floor is a bit much I think it would have looked a lot nicer with maybe a lavender and turquoise square tile pattern. I would never decorate my kitchen like this but to each their own and it is very eye-catching. Lately I've been really into purple and I love the color of the door and the refrigerator even the backsplash or the back tiles match the door perfectly and I am pretty sure I see a washer or dryer with the same floor pattern around the door of it which is pretty cool making me think it must be a decal of some sort. It looks like a small apartment kitchen and maybe the person who decorated it needed some color in their life. When I go into a room I have decorated it makes me feel good and happy and I hope that the owner of this crazy kitchen gets the same feeling.
This, THIS!! Is a sensory disorder trigger. If you own this house, do not let anyone that has a sensory disorder trigger come over. Chances are that it will send them into an episode, much like how it sent me into one. If they do get sent into an episode. Get them away from THIS (even if it’s outside) and get them some water and let them be, but ask if they need anything first.
If it weren't for those shiny banners over the- I want to say dishwasher- I could low key get into this aesthetic.
I like it exept for the confetti over the dishwasher pls remove
Someone said "Can you make it look like the 80s/90s threw up in my kitchen?"
I could maybe perhaps live with the purple fridge, but all the rest has to go.
Yippee where are the flashing lights.. love the plastic rainbow whatever it covers
I've never seen a fridge that color. Please tell me this is photoshop!
I would believe somebody if they told me this was just the inside of a dollhouse
This looks like a little kids playhouse. Except... It is way to fancy for a kid. Kids can't cook.
Barbie in the ~DrEaM hOuSE~ honestly this looks like a life size version of Barbies Dollhouse...
Brought to u by the girl no one wanted to work on their house on Trading Spaces.
The tinsel on what is presumably the bin slot really sets it off. No, I legit want it. Quote me?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH MY EEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES
Did the designer let their 5 year old daughter design this after watching an episode of JoJo Siwa?
Maybe Jem and the Holograms too. Reminds me also somewhat of Peewee’s Playhouse, Miami Vice, and the ’80s Apple IIGS video game Tass Times in Tonetown. It had people with hair and clothes in these colors, and new wave dance music. And this reminds me a lot of that zebra dancing at that neon party. But the floor here is 100% Memphis style. Pineapple is the perfect touch.
the first time i've ever commented on one of these, to say - i actually love most of this. the floor pattern can go, however.
I feel like crying, laughing and throwing up all at the same time.
I'm counting 3 shades of 'purple' .... and I have to look away and stop cdounting.
Oh nooooooo, my poor eyes, they're never gonna see the same again - hopefully!!
That floooooor better light up and play "Barbie Girl " every F#$&!nG Time that fridge opens.....and the dishes better Be Rubbermaid if they go in the Washer.......
Isn't this the kitchen at The Max? Kelly and Jeff will be swinging through for an order of fries soon.
Isn't this the kitchen at The Max? Kelly and Jeff should be swinging through to pick up an order of fries soon.
When home is like night club like whit theme rooms this is kitchen then, whole hose would be too much. Or shocking effect in historical decor house.
Its not as bad as the others, honestly if you changed the floor and removed the tinsel it would he tolerable
Am I the only one trying to read the floor just to avoid the rest of the kitchen?
1990s clothing fashion as kitchen decor I guess. Saved By The Bell theme. Gotta get some My Little Pony salt & pepper shakers.
This is just a sensory overload episode waiting to happen. IF YOU OWN THIS HOUSE DO NOT INVITE SOMEONE WITH SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDERS TO COME OVER!!! I’m saying this for both your well-being and theirs.
Oh good grief, I just noticed the fridge is purple! Where on earth do you get a purple fridge???
Ahh.... a lavender colored fridge! 💜 I actually really like the whole shebang 🤷♀️
That is not a fail, but looks like it would be functioning perfectly well. It is just a matter of taste, and I find this particularly cringeworthy, but it might work for someone who is into those colours.
Thanks, I hate it. I could live with the pink handles (maybe) but the floor would absolutely drive me mad!
It looks like a real life 90’s Barbie Dream House kitchen. I hate that my inner child is telling me I want my kitchen to look like that!
If people like this... why not? It's not really a 'fail', just ugly. (except if that floor is carpeted... in the kitchen... then most definitely fail. But I can't really tell.)
That's actually tastefully untasteful! There's method in the madness, it either cheers you up first thing in the morning, or you commit a murder!
good for those trying to lose weight...you'd be way too queasy to eat ANYthing
Well, the colorchoice is ... special, but at least it really eorks as a kitchen unlike other posts here 😁
The floor looks like a hidden word seach puzzle. I'm actually looking to see if I can find any words!
Any one of the pops of color (except for the curtain if mylar) would be OK.
As punishment for your kids if they spill something on the carpet, make them count how many of each symbol or letter in the carpet pattern.
It wouldn’t be too bad, minus the floor and the muti-color tinsel. Cheerful.
I don't love it but the floor hurts my eyes!! Change that it and it's not too bad actually
It was soon after this that Karen decided to no longer design a kitchen while on acid.
This is the house of a Tik Toker.Or Zach Morris.
Load More Replies...It looks really cool. Not something I would put in my house though :D
I like everything except the floor, and the rainbow mylar-strip curtain. I am LOVING that purple fridge, though.
This one is fine. Sure it's not to my taste, but it is purely a matter of taste. Not a weird diagonal carpeted toilet or invisible steps. Presumably the person who had to live with it, liked it.
i love it but i know people are going to tell me its ugly sooo.......
No, just NO - reminds me of the fluorescent orange kitchen I had in a property I rented back when god was a boy ; it was that painful to walk into when the sun was shining (it was east facing, so that was usual in the morning) that I had a couple of friends simultaneously threw up when they decided to be nice and make coffee for the rest of us following a very heavy night out ..... the place was owned by a decorator who'd done the kitchen in paint left over from a contract to outfit a fire station hazard room .... Happy days.
Oooh that's perfect for my real life malibu barbie home I'm building at the beginning of never!
WOW When it comes to being colorful like hawahie call this person because he/she can do it
so litterly no one is gonna talk about how there is a washing machine in the kitchen but no dishwasher???????
Likely it's in the UK, it seems that they tend to have washing machines in the kitchen. I'm Australian and we tend to have them in a laundry room or as in my unit/flat/apartment I have it in my bathroom. Many places in Australia also have a separate toilet room for extra privacy but usually without a sink which is usually in the bathroom. But my current unit has the toilet in the bathroom like what seems to be common in USA?
Load More Replies...Okay so I didn't know I had taken drugs but- Wait I haven't taken any. Then what the hell is this?!
Not my taste, but it's been done really well. This isn't an installation failure, but a matter of taste.
This looks like the dream home of a little girl from about 1992 who desperately wanted a Barbie Dream House and Lisa Frank everything.
Methinks some mushrooms were consumed while choosing a colour scheme...
Why Is There Wood Separating The Hallway In Half
Yup, The Fridge Fit Boss
My Parents Have A Bathroom With Carpet That Goes Up The Bathtub Walls. Bonus Points For The Terrible Wallpaper
Who Says Crown Molding Is Overdone?
I Think My Stairs Fit Here
Middle Class Fridge. Lower Class Aesthetic
It's Not A Mirror, It's A Doorway
A Shower Designed To Be As Hard To Stand In As Possible
Lemme just cling to this rock like a derpmaid while water runs over my body
This Bathroom Covered In Carpet
This Single Square Inch Of Raised Carpet Complete With Lining
I Can Just Imagine The Whole House Shaking Like Crazy
Wash Your Hands You Animals
Imagine Trying To Piss While Drunk
These Stairs Leading To A Bedroom Loft
My Friend Just Finished A Kitchen Remodel
Prayers For The Contractor Who Had To Call These Homeowners And Explain They Needed A Second Set Of Front Doors Because. Math
Today My Mom Hit Her Toe With This And Was Bleeding. I Hate This Kitchen So Much
Why Is The Big Face Bleeding, Why The Monkey, Just Why
This Shower Has Blinds Instead Of Curtains
This "Form Over Function" Kitchen In My Apartment
Social Distancing Looking A Lot Like Being Married For 10+ Years
Toilet Room Design
8000 Magic Cards Covering 39m²
This Staircase Bathroom
Why: 1. They Put In A Sliding Door To A Bedroom. 2. They Placed Curtains On The Outside Of It. 3. They Also Placed The Lock On The Outside
This Entire Kitchen’s Counters And Backsplash Are Covered With This “Faux Mold” Tile
Imagine Being A Firefighter And Entering A Dark Smoke-Filled House From The Outside Through This Window
Is It Possible To Change This?
This Throne Room
Neck Pain And A Head Injury Anyone?
My Grandma’s Bathroom
I bought a used mobile home with the garden tub carpeted exactly like this. They attached the carpet with a staple gun and 49,000 staples. Took me forever to get them all out and toss the nasty carpet.
The Bathroom Door Of The New Place My Girlfriend And I Just Moved Into. I Was Sat At The Dining Table When I Took This
That's clearly an exterior door on that bathroom, it even has a deadbolt lock!
The Queen’s Seat
Clean Entrance
This looks practical for farmhouses and the like for a back door, walk in, wash off all the mud, keep moving. It is like next level mud room.
The Raised Cutout Of This Ceiling Doesn’t Allow The Fan To Suck In Any Air
These Tiles That Are Designed Pre-Worn And Dirty
How Would Any Of This Work
It's a horrible design, but it will work. steam doesn't care if something is perpendicular or what
Creativity
I'm having a Fight-or-Flight instinct just looking at these terrible designs from Hell.
Please do not confuse the work of professional designers with anything on this list.
The best part of this article may have been the comments. Pandas on fire today
After looking at all these tiny little mistakes that others have in their homes I will no longer look at my few lop-sided light switches with the same dislike.
A lot of these fit under the rubric "Why you should never decorate your home while on LSD."
I want to know what's up with all the stairs in the bathrooms. Like, what's under them that they had to make the toilet up on stairs? How crazy is that plumbing....
Drains need to drop 1/4 per foot slope to drain properly. They may be on ground floor or concrete and would be pretty hard to be able to achieve the proper drain slope and be able to get the water supply to it. May not be crazy plumbing but can get VERY expensive and complex depending on what's existing. Someone decided this was the best option.. somehow lol
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None of these are designed by anyone with a degree. These are, horrible, granted, examples of what happens when people make over their own homes.
I've seen some of this in real life especially the carpeted bathroom. Most of those I've seen belong in elderly people. They just love carpets.
A lot of these were sensory disorder triggers for me, so I just want to apologize if anyone else that has seen this post if they got a sensory disorder episode from some of the images
I wish there was a way to save Panda Posts. I have tears streaming down my face from first the pix then the comments. GOOD SHOW PANDAS!!!!
I'm redesigning my kitchen and this has given me nightmares. All the things that can go wrong...
So many of these all I can think is "how do you keep this clean?" Carpet in the toilet? On the walls?
I found this so depressing i could look past #27--yes, some were fuinny, but most were evidence of truly thoughtless, stupid design. God help whoever has to live with these things. Awful!!!
Why type of minds could make these designs! Half of them will injure or kill you!
My grandpa was a general contractor back in the 50sthrough the 80s, and he built a ton of homes with carpeted bathrooms. I'll never understand why.
What's the idea of having all the steps in bathrooms? Steps have always been my nemesis so those "designs" really stand out to me. It's obvious no one has even considered the possibility of not being able to climb or descend those steps due to an infirmity sometime in their future. Having spent months wearing an immobilizer cast while confined to a wheelchair and later on a walker, those bathrooms give me nightmares.
Upvoted. Why would someone down vote your comment?
Load More Replies...I better be f*****g high, because Trump supporters did not just storm the f*****g Capitol building and disrupt the vote count.
Looks like a lot of these were made after the fact. Making a separate suite so another bathroom was added, or altering a older kitchen. Still, a good designer would have been money well spent to avoid these eye sores. But they will always be a conversation starter!
Years ago I worked for a moving company. We moved the first family into a new Townhouse development. The homes were designed so that nothing larger than a double bed could be moved upstairs to the bedrooms. Twisty stairs with enclosed overhangs and windows too small to get anything in from the outside. We tried everything we could think of. They were not happy.
I'm having a Fight-or-Flight instinct just looking at these terrible designs from Hell.
Please do not confuse the work of professional designers with anything on this list.
The best part of this article may have been the comments. Pandas on fire today
After looking at all these tiny little mistakes that others have in their homes I will no longer look at my few lop-sided light switches with the same dislike.
A lot of these fit under the rubric "Why you should never decorate your home while on LSD."
I want to know what's up with all the stairs in the bathrooms. Like, what's under them that they had to make the toilet up on stairs? How crazy is that plumbing....
Drains need to drop 1/4 per foot slope to drain properly. They may be on ground floor or concrete and would be pretty hard to be able to achieve the proper drain slope and be able to get the water supply to it. May not be crazy plumbing but can get VERY expensive and complex depending on what's existing. Someone decided this was the best option.. somehow lol
Load More Replies...Upvoted. Why would someone down vote your comment?
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None of these are designed by anyone with a degree. These are, horrible, granted, examples of what happens when people make over their own homes.
I've seen some of this in real life especially the carpeted bathroom. Most of those I've seen belong in elderly people. They just love carpets.
A lot of these were sensory disorder triggers for me, so I just want to apologize if anyone else that has seen this post if they got a sensory disorder episode from some of the images
I wish there was a way to save Panda Posts. I have tears streaming down my face from first the pix then the comments. GOOD SHOW PANDAS!!!!
I'm redesigning my kitchen and this has given me nightmares. All the things that can go wrong...
So many of these all I can think is "how do you keep this clean?" Carpet in the toilet? On the walls?
I found this so depressing i could look past #27--yes, some were fuinny, but most were evidence of truly thoughtless, stupid design. God help whoever has to live with these things. Awful!!!
Why type of minds could make these designs! Half of them will injure or kill you!
My grandpa was a general contractor back in the 50sthrough the 80s, and he built a ton of homes with carpeted bathrooms. I'll never understand why.
What's the idea of having all the steps in bathrooms? Steps have always been my nemesis so those "designs" really stand out to me. It's obvious no one has even considered the possibility of not being able to climb or descend those steps due to an infirmity sometime in their future. Having spent months wearing an immobilizer cast while confined to a wheelchair and later on a walker, those bathrooms give me nightmares.
Upvoted. Why would someone down vote your comment?
Load More Replies...I better be f*****g high, because Trump supporters did not just storm the f*****g Capitol building and disrupt the vote count.
Looks like a lot of these were made after the fact. Making a separate suite so another bathroom was added, or altering a older kitchen. Still, a good designer would have been money well spent to avoid these eye sores. But they will always be a conversation starter!
Years ago I worked for a moving company. We moved the first family into a new Townhouse development. The homes were designed so that nothing larger than a double bed could be moved upstairs to the bedrooms. Twisty stairs with enclosed overhangs and windows too small to get anything in from the outside. We tried everything we could think of. They were not happy.