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Have you ever walked into someone’s house and wondered “what on earth were you thinking?” Some people are born to design or decorate. Some get by on the bare minimum of creativity. And others clearly have no cooking clue. While trends change as times move, there are certain things that will just always be a “no!”

Instagram account "Please Hate These Things" has been created to warn you about the biggest mistakes you could ever make while decorating or designing your living space. The brains behind the page is an established interior designer called Dina Holland. She started it as a laugh for her friends, but it's grown to clock up and impressive 616, ooo followers. As the account's bio notes, it's a gallery of "absurd, ugly & just plain stupid things in home design." Bored Panda has picked the worst of the worst from the page so you can check yourself before you wreck yourself during your next home design project...
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    Staircase with excessive ceiling and wall lights creates a design disaster needing to be shamed.

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    Campy
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They're really good light fixtures but after a few years they start to sag.

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    #13

    A fridge and wall oven installed awkwardly in a poorly designed kitchen setting.

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    Kise Miarse
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am a short person and I do not approve. Also . . . how is the back of that fridge getting any ventilation? The bottom vent doesn't do it.

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    Bathtub design disaster with tiles extending into a seating area, raising questions about practicality.

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    Pages ByTheSea
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    P. Diddy's breakfast bar. Out of shot to the left is a 55 gallon drum of baby oil.

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    Poorly designed door cut around a ceiling light, a clear design disaster deserving to be shamed.

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    Agfox
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    3 weeks ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "What is this recessed light fitting of which you speak?"

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    #20

    A house with uneven window placement and mismatched porch pillars, representing design disasters.

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    Anxiety Panda
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought it was a sweet little house until I found the door. Now it is an abomination. Burn it down and try again.

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    #25

    Design disasters: door with holes patched beside utility meters in a cluttered utility room.

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    ZGutr
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Someone spent seriouse time on measuring, check, measure, check, measure, check, measure, check, measure, check, measure, check, measure, check, measure, check, measure, check, measure ....... cut cut cut cut

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    #28

    Design disaster featuring a mismatched balcony and doors with a utility pole obstructing garage access.

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    Karina
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    for a moment i thought the "joke" was a cat lying in the nest of wires. There is no cat, is there?

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    Bad design with a wall outlet interrupting decorative paneling, showcasing a design disaster deserving to be shamed.

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    Daniel Atkins
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The wall stud is most likely to the right of out let just a poor placement of the trim

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    Tabitha
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    3 weeks ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wouldn’t be so sure of that, if you had to live in it. See, I used to like pink when I was a kid. But then we moved into a house where I got what was obviously the previous owners’ daughter’s room. It was floor to ceiling pink. Pink carpet, pink paint on the doors, pink wallpaper. I had to live in it until my parents got around to redoing my room. Having to live in that Pepto-Bismol nightmare absolutely killed my liking for pink. When my parents asked me what color I wanted my room done in, I said blue. They asked if I wanted to keep any of the pink, and I said absolutely not. So I ended up with a lovely tranquil blue bedroom. Shame too, because the wallpaper was a lovely Japanese print that I actually liked, except the entire background was pink—-and if you know anything about Japanese art, you know there’s a lot of appreciation for the blank spaces between the people and objects in the picture, so the wallpaper print had a load of blank pink space on. Had it been just about any other color, I would’ve kept it.

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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oooooo now yes I’ll have that ty I adore purple lol my bedrooms purple n I’m 60 n a white witch so hand it here that’s gorgeous ❤️

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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This looks like one of those glow in the dark floors that people make.

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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Sorry, we can't center the entrance to the door because of the gutter downspout."

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    Data1001
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm sure there are no 2-year-old bits of dried up toothpaste and soap scum stuck in between those rocks.

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    Bill Swallow
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Looks like a Looney Tune where you just *know* sooner or later some poor hapless cat is going to get dragged through that downspout. Backwards.

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    A. Br.
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ugh... looking at this picture; I can smell the mildew emanating from the carpeting.

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    nomnomborkbork
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Obviously designed from the inside point of view without caring about the outside elevation. Tsk tsk.

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    Dan Lewis
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have one of those sinks in my apartment. It's not stylish, it's freakin' useless. Give me some storage!!

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    zims
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Someone replaced two inches of baseboard and it's not an exact match. Boohoo.

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    Agfox
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tile paint is your friend here. I'd be tempted to paint the border & both upper & lower tiles

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    Bill Swallow
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just waiting for a janitor to come along with a dripping, soaking wet mop.

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    zims
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The walls are cute, the floor needs to be split into three different designs.

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    beck speck
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    just something to stub my toes on at night when I'm sneaking a snack

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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Honey, are you sure you don't want to hire a contractor?" "No way. Any idiot can install a countertop! Duh."

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    Kise Miarse
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm thinking maybe there used to be a porch there and they didn't want to build a new one.

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    Data1001
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I feel like this was done by somebody with a sense of humor, just to see people's reactions.

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    Carl Roberts
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    3 weeks ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not so much a design fail, but more of a buying the wrong type of range fail. Should have a slide-in range, not a freestanding range. For those confused by the terminology... https://www.whirlpool.com/blog/kitchen/slide-in-vs-freestanding-range.html

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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this is what happens when you don't have a mitre saw or the skills to pull off a join like this by hand

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    DowntownStevieB
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is fine. A lot of old homes weren't made with indoor plumbing, so when they added it, bathrooms got creative.

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    Bill Swallow
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean. And so between the both of them, they licked the platter clean."

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    Sarah Suelzle
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    First get rid of the carpet but then you have lots of space to accessorize!! 😀

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    Wendy P
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We literally just had a new home built and our plumber put the clean out too low. I just baseboarded over it. I have never used a clean out in my life, so I figure I can always pull off the baseboard. I was really ticked about that. But what do you do after the fact?

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    Floeckchen
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Would have propably taken way too long to rearrange them after construction works

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    Tabitha
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    3 weeks ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Let me guess. There used to be a large glass window next to the door, and a smaller one above it, but they both got smashed and the building owner is too cheap to replace them, so the whole entryway is no longer secure, but wide open to anyone, including people who don’t live there. Real swell for the occupants. /s

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    Data1001
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, it probably helps keep you from accidentally sticking your finger in the outlet when you fumble for the light switch in the dark...

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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hey, sometimes you have to come up with creative solutions to bizarre circumstances.

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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I assume it's the rainspouts that we're supposed to be looking at here? Without the sloping angle, the rain wouldn't have much downward momentum.

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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think they did a great job camouflaging those utility boxes

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    Bill Swallow
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Works for me. Might not be the most esthetic, but I am tired of pitch-dark living spaces. Put me on Team Well-Lit.

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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is actually an old prison turned into an apartment building. It's in the US I think.

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    Carl Roberts
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    3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where's the design fail? This is clearly a basement bathroom with a couple of kitty litter boxes

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