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All the fellow interior and furniture design aficionados, pull your seats closer. Also, those who enjoy the quirkier side of the internet. Today, we have a real treat for you!

Welcome to “Sorry For Design,” an Instagram page that labels itself as “visual arts” entertainment and you can’t argue. The account, which seems to be still growing, features an impressive collection of the most eccentric, plain weird and totally bizarro pieces of interior decor.

Think of a tarantula chair or a Jeff Goldblum-inspired bathroom: some of the designs shared here take insanity to an entirely new level. Below we selected the funniest and most eyebrow-raising examples, so enjoy and upvote your favorite ones as you go!

Bored Panda reached out to Katia Tolstykh, a Berlin-based interior and furniture designer, co-founder of OddinShape studio, and the creator behind the Sorry For Design Instagram account. Today, Tolstykh has 9 years of experience in design. In 2020, she along with her husband founded Odd In Shape, a multi-disciplinary design studio that works mainly in digital art, dreamscape interiors, and furniture design.

Tolstykh told us that Sorry For Design was created as a source of inspiration and fun. “Instagram, Pinterest, and other resources focus on beautiful and professional products, while a massive number of things made by non-professionals are left out of the equation,” Tolstykh explained.

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According to the interior and furniture designers, they may be funny, vulgar, naive, or disgusting, but they are all worthy of attention. “My account is a collection of projects by notable designers, and by ordinary people. All these projects are done with soul,” Tolstykh said.

When it comes to eccentric and unusual design, Tolstykh believes that it not only catches the eye but also “cheers people up.” Moreover, “everyone has their own reasons to like this design. It's hard to speak for everyone,” she said.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oooh, definitely. This would go down so well in many horsey places. I can just see people sitting on this bench to try on new riding roots. (Ooops, Iconic is correct, I meant 'boots', not 'roots'.)

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Moreover, the examples shared on Sorry For Design, Tolstykh argues, are really more about art and flamboyance than functional furniture. “They’re about the search for new forms, about scandal, about the rejection of common notions, about the expansion of the boundaries of the permitted and the familiar,” she explained and added that “This is art.”

In many ways, interior design is no different than fashion. It has its own trends, styles that change with years, seasons and people’s lifestyles. Various external influences are also to blame for fleeting interior design styles, social change and technological advancement included.

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Previously, our fellow Bored Panda writer Rokas spoke with an interior architect and lecturer at Vilnius College of Design named Judita Striukienė. According to her, nowadays eclectic solutions are on the rise; it's really popular to combine different interior design styles

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That feeling when you're being interrogated under a bare lightbulb, but your interrogators got really cute with the decor.

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"In fact, it's quite rare to discover a place that is true to just one school. When you say a home was designed according to a certain style, you usually mean that some elements have an advantage in that place over the others or there is some sort of leitmotif throughout the entire space," the interior architect told Bored Panda.

On the other hand, there exist main aspects of good interior design that defy time and trends. According to Striukienė, living spaces have to be functional. Everything else is more or less decor, creating a certain mood," she said.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Jules Verne: novelist, playwright, master of bathroom design

Nobody
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

not the room you would want to be in after a night on the turps

Cassi Lyris
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's on the bright side but it beats the pants off every gray and white bathroom I've been in for the past 11 years...

Tigressa101
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I actually love this. It sucks the tub looks plain. That's the only thing making this a bad design

Patrick Heining
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In an artist's home: Wow! In some kind of night club: Hell no! Can you smell it too?

Kari Fitch
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was like "meh", til I noticed that all of it is made with a billion tiny mosaic tiles. Just, "Wow"

Lizard Queen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow this is amazing and I would certainly love to take a bath in there!

Okatango
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The floor needs the same treatment as the walls, or something that resembles sand in the blueish light of the shallow ocean.

Fieke Engelen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The bath looks so out of place. Couldn't they have figured something out for that?

Shirley Heyn
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

. . . and never have a relaxing bath again, but look how this design has just "opened up the room". . . creativity in a box! The windows should be aquariums, then you'd have it all.

Stymied Egan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The pink floor and counter bother me more than the rest of the room.

Robsaint
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

More colourful than the little mermaid. I sure Ariel would love it.

Nul Nemo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I imagine archaeologists of the future uncovering it and marveling at today's works of art. "Must have been a shrine for the sea gods!" they will say. 😂

Sarah Nunns
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hello dear, yes I finished tiling the bathroom but I may have got slightly carried away.

Gypsy Lee
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Only if Yellow Submarine played on a loop and I could lock people in from the outside. - Come on, you know you've already thought just who that person would be....

Laura Probst
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For the right kind of house, I'm sure this works perfectly. Seriously, who "curated" this list? Someone who thinks only beige and white are acceptable?

Impetus
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I could get with it if I wasn't totally sure I'd hit my head on the periscope

Daniel Fury
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Argh this hurts my Dyslexic colour blind brain. Chaos and not the fun kind. Yuck

Randy BluntRandyo5
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A bathroom @ a "Sea World" hotel room for kids? If this, is for a kid's sectional, then how cool is the parents' bathroom? Vic

catmom3
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Uhhh.....interesting that the plumbing hasn't been updated since the 1950s.

Deson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If that periscope is hooked up to either a scene or the roof I would be so in love with this.

Starhawk Hunt
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Finally one I don’t absolutely love….but that’s only because it’s a little busy and pink.

Pat Tamarin
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What you get when an oceanographer and mosaic artist get married.

Dave Fontana
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dude almost none of these are bad designs...did I miss something here?!

Louloubelle
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's making me a bit dizzy just looking at it. I don't think I could bathe here.

🫠Nobody pathetically🫡
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

“Ah, don’t you just love to take a bath, an look up to see the dolphins?” “ D: what”

Mistiekim
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’d bonk my head on that periscope way too many times. Plus imagine if the power went out!

SewingStaffy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This would work really well, if they just toned down the walls and ceiling. I can see the reasoning and actually like it

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This is why many interior designers start the design procedure by getting to really know the person or family who are going to live in a particular space. Their lifestyles, preferences, likes and dislikes all make up the end interior the designer comes up with.

Although most people would agree on what they call a bad or a good interior, that doesn’t mean that tacky and eccentric interiors don’t find their audience. On the contrary, it's no secret that the internet has been fascinated with quirky interiors, bizarre furniture, crazy McMansions and everything in between.

These unusual spaces seem to both transgress universal aesthetics on what we consider appealing and common sense, and show that there can also be no rules whatsoever.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Finally you can actually blame the chair for all those sounds you make when sitting down.

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Spider Bed, Spider Bed / Groovy place to lay your head / Is it safe? Heaven knows / He's got radioactive toes / Hey you (who?) / Jump in the Spider Bed. (For the tune, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OP8keCbSVU)

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For the real chocolate lovers.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This little pig's expression sums up this sofa.. That's a whole lot of sofa for one seat...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah yes, this must have been made when humans had two knees per leg

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looks like this would be uncomfortable. Bring cushions. Better yet, throw the cushions on the floor and sit there.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The wheels are a nice touch. They allow you and your partner to play some kind of agarian bumper-car game in the house.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What is the porpoise of this? Who put it dolph-in the lobby?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, the house with the melting chocolate bar bed needs this!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I guess this is the poor man’s version of the piano couch….

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I can only imagine what the rest of the house looks like! Oh, my head hurts!

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As the tornado struck many residents feared the movie Sharknado was real

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Charly Armchair 1981.

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