Home Design Fails That Make You Feel Better About Your Own Home

Home Design Fails That Make You Feel Better About Your Own Home
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[@NightcoreNewbie]

What's really interesting about all of these isn't the design itself. It's about the approval process. Someone looked at the design/finished product and said, "That's a good idea to put that there. Absolutely nothing could go wrong with this being here."

[@catmip]

I think it’s likely most if not all of these didn’t pull permits.

[@davidcat1455]

I am desperately clinging to the conclusion that all these fake. If the people that actually built these are living amongst us I see no alternative except cutting my own throat with a rusty bread knife. Because obviously there is no hope for humanity.

[@joetwo7951]

I'm sure a lot of the photos were in area without many building codes. Most likely older buildings that they need to update and had no space

[@TopHatNat]

Definitely not council approved. Having a toilet in your kitchen @5:03 is totally unhygienic, gross, impractical and weird. All the toilet related ones were the worst for me. Like, wtf !!! lol

[@sandraday6955]

I mean maybe maybe like the carpeted bathroom it was someone who bruised easily and needed to have soft surfaces?! Not sure what is wrong with the elevator that empties in to the bathroom I have ran home many times and the first place I needed was the terlet.

[@jeniphirtaylor-mcintire81]

The martini tub was probably not in a living room but in a "romantic" honeymoon suite in a Poconos hotel in the 1970s.

[@OldLadyRocker]

They've still got them!

[@silviac221]

Thanks for this! Now I feel that my average-looking one-bedroom flat is contemporary design at its peak.

[@phoenixonfire2998]

After watching this, the Winchester House makes sense.

[@rickhibdon11]

And every single one of these people thought they had a perfectly logical and good reason for it

[@JF-kv1gm]

Quite so...which is pretty worrying.

[@onespiceybbw]

Mostly concerning the fact that the house probably didn't have a bathroom before and the person putting the bathroom in had to connect to plumbing that may have not been very accessible.

[@MsGrandunion]

more likely just a landlord trying to cram as many people as possible into a small space. They will have converted the bathroom into another bedroom and then have to merge the bathroom and kitchen.

[@seanberry1]

This makes me so thankful I live in a country that has building regulations. There's no regulations covering bad taste though unfortunately...

[@TheGahta]

And half of these had a contractor think to themselves "Geez that sounds really stupid, but hey, a jobs a job, just have to make sure ill be paid in advance"

[@brandistonestreet5382]

even the oven is terrified by the pleather cabinets

[@beverlykaufman81]

i was checking to see if anyone else had noticed that...poor oven.

[@dizzysdoings]

My thoughts as well 🤣

[@oneminuteofmyday]

6:50 I was in a similar bathroom back in the late-1970’s/early-1980’s. The tub was straight in that one, thankfully. Even by 1970’s standards, it was…yeah. It was one of those things where you just did what you came there to do and made an internal agreement with yourself not to ask questions when you rejoined your host.

[@frankhooper7871]

I can remember when carpeted bathrooms were a "thing" in the '60s.

[@ritalowrie1296]

We bought our house in the early '80's. The MES was carpeted with this horrible mustard coloured carpets. 🤮 The first thing did was rip them out and tiled. As for the rest of the house it was perfect 👍

[@al.the.]

the one at 0:53 is actually good- sound isolation for bowel shy person, given that nobody's peeing standing in there, and closing before flushing is a must - otherwise not hygienic. and while we're at _shy_ I'm comfortable with my partner's bodily functions (or not, ie, not liking smells similarly as my own) and I don't see yuck problems with "open space" if it's private area already. That "no mirror, but mirrors design" I was like - you don't plan it but sometimes you need to go at the same time... especially when waking up to work at the same time and if there's no (space for whole) second bathroom, why not do something like that? Another one of those open space was clearly for disabled person, there was a rail? handle (not sure how it's called in English) on the wall by the toilet, (ambulatory) wheelchair users exist, and small bathrooms with narrow doors are not accessible, and disabled people are marginalised and rarely in position to afford everything for them as we'd see even decent, not to mention special adjustments. So tearing down walls might be the only solution for some. (let's advocate for UBI - proper, no questions asked, so no person is out of decent basic living conditions)

[@jezelf2774]

that was still happening in the UK up to 2010 afaik. though it was more that the place I was renting wasn't updated since the 80s. It's still a thing with older folks who have kept it that way - then they die and a new generation will reno it. I was looking at a house listing this week that looked like it hasn't been reno'd since the 70's

[@crosslink1493]

I bought a condo in 1987 that had two carpeted bathrooms. First thing I did was rip it out and put in vinyl flooring (the CCRs prohibited tile except in the ground level units).

[@dontuno]

We bought our house in 1990 and the bathroom had recently been carpeted. We left it in situ till we gutted the room but I kind of miss the beige carpet/magnolia suite look.

[@garysakamoto4007]

7:33 Is that the Weasley residence?

[@sonyasandoval1477]

That's the first thing I thought! "Oh look, it's the Burrows!" It would have been even funnier if some ginger-haired person had been standing in front.

[@123UpNorth321]

I once stayed in an airbnb in Paris which was so tiny that when you were having a dump you were able to stir your meal in the meantime. Not exaggerating!!

[@kireta21]

4:27 I'm guessing when houses in center were build, main road wasn't even in plans, and community was connected with their own road. When main road was laid, houses started growning around it, eventually surrounding orginal neighborhood.

[@stevepatrickjarvis]

I know the guy that lives in that narrow house, people call him Slim Jim.

[@texasstardust6010]

😉😆😂😄.... one of the best comments I've read today!

[@lunarcorpse]

This is what happens when you hire people who don't know what they're doing or the people who don't know what they're doing hire themselves. 🤦

[@ktzep]

And in many cases, both!

[@guymoore2137]

I looked at a condo in Germany which had a mezzanine divided in two parts, with a rope-and-plank suspension bridge connecting them. Couldn't believe my eyes.

[@MsDeeeBee]

That sounds amazing. Which city was it in?

[@WarpigA23]

Sounds fun!

[@Maerahn]

Back in my art student days, I rented a room in a house-share that had the downstairs bathroom inside the cupboard under the stairs, which was in the living room. Tiny, with no windows and a sharply downward-sloping ceiling - and just enough room for the toilet (at the *lower* end of the sloping ceiling, so tall people were practically bent double every time they used it) and then a small sink directly opposite.

[@TheComputec]

3:32 That washer placed above your head while taking a dump... legitimately made me spit coffee all over my keyboard and I do mean literally spray my desk and laptop. I love people and their fucking stupid ideas

[@dieseldragon6756]

Doesn't look at all safe, does it? 😨 The placement's probably OK if the bolts are tightened to the appropriate torque...But a *Whirlpool* washer? That's just _asking_ for trouble! 🔥

[@keti.rg.editzzz]

Not gonna lie...but I would buy this purple kitchen😂💜

[@galaxythedragonshifter]

me too. i would so buy it XD

[@trixie898989]

Thanks Happy Land, I DO feel better about my home. 😂😂Another gem of a video! 🥰🥰

[@Hunter225]

A bathroom in the kitchen is a good way to make you sick

[@AndrewVelonis]

There's an old saying about that.

[@beautifulbrokenangel786]

5:11 I actually liked the way they designed the cabinets it's unique and cool.

[@julesmasseffectmusic]

Taps outside the Shower is a Care Givers dream.

[@randomcuttlefish6778]

You should have had Sims 1 build music as the background.

[@Jess-nc4oy]

A lot of these are like Sims rag to riches, where you can't afford walls yet

[@Maerahn]

Lol, that was my first thought when I saw that one with the bit of roof built onto the balcony - "Oh, someone had a fail with the roofing tool...!"

[@diannelavoie5385]

All I can shriek while viewing these examples of insanity is "WHY"?

[@Andy-hk2qo]

That's why I chose the word disturbing over 'slightly' disturbing. Ahaha

[@TheWareek]

I agree with you most of them require 5 minutes explaining. WHY

[@thesisypheanjournal1271]

I swear that outlet in the sink idea was imported from Korea. They put outlets in the most bizarre and inexplicable places, including in the shower.

[@dieseldragon6756]

We're the opposite in the UK; We tend to put as *few* outlets in as we can get away with... 🙃 That said, we probably have one of the safest codes for bathroom outlets: Single BS 546 (Europlug-style) outlet max 200mA, and *must* be fed through an isolating transformer. (Just don't try and run a hairdryer through it! 😉)

[@NoJusticeNoPeace]

5:48 I think that's _excellent_ design. I don't want to step under freezing water to adjust the taps, so usually you have to lean into the shower to adjust the water while dodging the spray. Here you can adjust the water at your convenience, then step in when the water gets hot.

[@ZuerstJesus]

I am able to take off the shower head so I can aim the water jet to my feet at the bottom until the water is hot enough and then I can put the shower head back into the holding.

[@Lwah0812]

But if you want to adjust the temp in middle of shower?

[@TheEarthCreature]

That doesn't even make sense. Why does your shower spray you and why do you have to reach through water to get to the knob/handle? Every shower I've had has them directly under the shower head where it doesn't get wet at all and take no more reaching than to mid-forearm length to get to. What if you think the water is too hot or cool AFTER you get in?

[@NoJusticeNoPeace]

@@TheEarthCreature I'm 6'5", so I have to lean in and down to reach the knobs, which means dodging spray. You may be a tiny little elf-like manlet, like your buddy Donny Little-Hands, but I'm not.

[@CRanunculus]

@@TheEarthCreature Maybe your spray nozzle has a very narrow spread? First I adjust the knob to the rotation that it's usually comfortable, then immediatly retreat to the back of the tub or shower and wait at least 30 seconds, testing it with my foot.

[@Andy-hk2qo]

I was going to say hilarious and disturbing at the same time....

[@dmcloren]

7:34 - Poor man's Winchester House. "Just keep building!"

[@klausolekristiansen2960]

I am glad I live in a country where the law requires two doors betwen a toilet and a kitchen.

[@federicoalcala9566]

Jokes on you! They have 3 cabinet DOORS!

[@laurielaurie8280]

This is actually how some peoples brains work. Can you imagine 😬 Some scary 💩

[@sweetluvgurl]

Personally, I loved the purple kitchen

[@haniapopowska8966]

it was actually the prettiest and most practical thing here ;)

[@christopherdean1326]

I have seen it in several videos like this, and while it might not be my taste, I have seen a lot worse, and I am always puzzled at why potential buyers cannot see past the colour/design/whatever, and just consider the space itself. Nothing about it is beyond change, if you otherwise like the house, buy it and redo the kitchen. What's wrong with that?

[@Widdershins.]

@@christopherdean1326 What's wrong is it cost $15,000, apparently, to get it to look that ugly. Think how much it would cost to make it decent looking. Add that amount to the probably already inflated asking price. Then factor in the time it takes to find a contractor, get a quote, get it built, and ask yourself if it's no big deal to just "redo the kitchen." It's not like all you have to do is paint a room. This is major renovation.

[@christopherdean1326]

@@Widdershins. "Ugly" and "decent looking" are entirely matters of opinion. Personally, it would take precisely nothing to make it decent looking to me, as I see nothing particularly wrong with it. Alisha and Hania above would probably agree.

[@Widdershins.]

@@christopherdean1326 true. However, it’s a pretty small minority that would not find this kitchen an eyesore that needs to be torn out and redone. Flippers need to understand what people are likely to buy before dropping a ton of money on a reno most people would hate.

[@faithsolomon5036]

The martini bathtub at 2:52 is not in a house. It is a champagne tower in the honeymoon suite at the Pocono Palace in Pennsylvania.

[@CamelliaCorn]

Ohh I definitely knew it was intentional the minute i saw it. Shouldnt be on this list. In a home or a suite that thing is for some kinky shit.

[@dangerousbusinesses788]

My aunt used to live in a townhouse with a strange bathroom situation. First of all, there were more bathrooms than bedrooms (2 bed, 3 bath). Usually, it’s the other way around. Second, and strangest, of all, two bathrooms that shared a wall had a door in between them (jack-and-jill bathrooms?). (In case you’re wondering, yes, both bathrooms had their own doors as well.)

[@HavocGaming]

2:52 Pocono palace resort, i went there last year, it’s nice. Pretty dated design in there, that specific room is called the Roman tower I believe. The lady is standing in-front of a mirror (obvious I think) and the champagne hot tub is connected to the 2nd floor

[@cognition7544]

Ayo havoc

[@little1942]

The purple kitchen could use a little teal.

[@sunnyscott4876]

I don't hate the purple 💜 kitchen. It wouldn't be a deal breaker for me, depending on how the rest of the house looks!

[@sandrafaith]

*$15,000* though, wow. I'd consider the house if it were decently priced then just paint the cabinets white

[@aperson9405]

I would actually love that closet with no stairs to reach it. I would ask others not to put anything up there because it's too hard to reach then climb up and fill it with blankets, pillows, and snacks then hang out in there.

[@honolulu08]

0:34 at least its not blocking the door...😂😂😂

[@jdax21]

I have to reiterate what someone else said: more than one person saw no problems with these designs. Flipping/ designing houses is a process, so there was ample time for someone to stop these atrocities. On the other hand, these designs are an interesting, if disturbing, snapshot into the human psyche.

[@IKEMENOsakaman]

haha this gives me hope in humanity that I'm not the stupidest.

[@vrotties]

You know what? I am not complaining about my house ever again after this....😂😂😂. O.M.G.

[@dorothystovall3539]

Feel great about my 1962 house. Built like it’s gonna be around forever. At least I know now that I’m in the upper 50%. Thanks!

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

If you ever wondered why we have building codes…. You’ve just seen it.🐝🤗❤️

[@rachelmartin3631]

What's up with toilets in the kitchen, or up a flight of stairs...in the kitchen?

[@estherkeizer6080]

I can't say for every house, but a 100 years ago it was normal in the Netherlands. There was so little room for the toilet that they put it in the kitchen. It was also that the kitchen had running water already.

[@BobMuir100]

I very rarely LIKE these things however this gets one!!! Bob England

[@cocolives]

What are you saying Bob

[@BobMuir100]

@@cocolives No agenda simple reason, I just finally liked one presentation. Simple please don’t complicate things. Bob England

[@cocolives]

@@BobMuir100 You don't need to write Bob England after every comment, Bob

[@BobMuir100]

@@cocolives : I agree with your sentiments re the Ukraine, it may become a wonderful story. Now I sign off on every post as people do join in later not all follow from the first post. Also I wish more would be kind enough to say their location as it can help understanding re culture and therefore comments?! I do follow what you say and I do feel dumb at times but I hold to my first thoughts unless you can convince other wise? Bob England

[@andrewholdaway813]

5:13 the oven doors 'face' says it all

[@michaelwurst7165]

necessity is the mother of invention And whoever did the kitchen in purple you rock. I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

[@dragondancer1814]

3:22 Odds are that “atrium” is actually a filled-in indoor pool that the new homeowners didn’t want to deal with the expense and maintenance headaches of, so they found a creative way to repurpose it!

[@melz3752]

I love how the stove in the leather cabinet kitchen was frowning 😂😂

[@beautifulbrokenangel786]

0:40 Omg!!! This bathtub with the stairs below it is a death trap waiting to happen.

[@micmul23]

1:46: Here in Germany, a toilet seat is sometimes colloquially called "the throne". Apparently, the designer of this toilet was inspired by this. 👑

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

The purple marble in the screen cap isn't bad but the matching cabinets make it look like a Barney murder scene.

[@mk74tom]

Dang most of these are pre plumbing homes. Where the bathrooms use to be a closet.

[@trainliker100]

I remember once when a lady friend and I were looking at large mobile homes on a dealer lot. One had been custom ordered and the deal fell through and they had trouble selling it. All of the carpeting was red - kitchen counter tops red - kitchen appliances red (must have been special order I imagine). Awful. More recently, the house next to my lady friend just went on the market and had horrible LIME GREEN kitchen cabinets. Went on the market for 965K. Sold in about a day for 1.1M. This was in a desirable part of California. So it depends on where you are.

[@kissit012]

Cabinets, carpets, and paint can be changed with little expense

[@trainliker100]

@@kissit012 True. But first impressions count. And not everybody wants to buy a "project". And not everybody has the ability to envision in their mind what something could be. On the other hand, those that can might get a bargain price on a horrible looking place when they had plans to remodel anyway. And regarding the expense, what is "little expense". Many home buyers are stretched to the limit or beyond already to get into a house. Especially their first house. One of the problems real estate agents talk about is how they sell a house to somebody who says "I'm going to change this and that", but that never happens often because they can't afford it. When they go to sell the house, they find a different realtor because they are embarrassed to go back to the first one and expose they didn't, or couldn't, do all they changes they boasted about.

[@bernardlevrier8977]

Il faut me laver les yeux maintenant avec des choses belles à voir.

[@maartenvandervalk6062]

The lines under everything where hilarious on top of some rather piculiar design endavours😂 thx a bunch

[@untamedtiger657]

I love the pleather cabinets ❤❤

[@skp6613]

These are super weird but hey it makes the house hella interesting. I love houses that have like secret passageways or crawl spaces and stuff like that. It’s mysterious!

[@melaniem9433]

Hey! That messed up map is a couple of miles from me in Jacksonville Beach Florida!! I used to deliver pizza in that area too - from the strip mall touching it on 3rd and 7th, haha! The shop isn't there anymore, that was over 30 years ago. Love your stuff, thanks!!

[@Marieskeez]

Tbh I personally loved the purple kitchen. Now if I had it I can get all my appliances pink and purple 💜💕

[@realong2506]

When my husband was in the service stationed in Virginia we looked at a one room apartment with the bath tub in the middle of the living room with a fold down top. Needless to say we passed.

[@GoodMusicManiac999]

I love the purple kitchen!!!

[@deerhoda7574]

Some are almost clever BUT most are unimaginable for any reason. Bathroom in the kitchen might be a lifesaver if you live alone, always alone.

[@zavodila9279]

TIL that apparently the bathroom/ bathroom appliances are the most common thing to mess up in architecture and interior designing

[@QueenOfPugs]

The floating table was actually really cool

[@androgyny77]

1:08- wait, where's the toilet? OH MY GOD.

[@Legend_of_one_gamer]

1:42 this gives me back alley vibes, like instead of a man selling you drugs its just a toilet being like "Hey kid want to take a shit"

[@josepherhardt164]

0:32 At least it's a _grounded_ receptacle. 2:14 Someone had no appreciation for the significant weight of water. I've given up commenting on these. These are some of the most frightening photos I've ever encountered. Except for 7:33 : how did this house ever survive the first mediocre thunderstorm?

[@yannickdrmda5295]

Considering how many people are involved in the building process, from design to furniture, it baffles me how NO ONE in the chain said "wait guys... isn't it fvcked up ?" 😂

[@shaynegadsden]

The only one that shouldn't have been in here was the bike light i mean it looked a bit wierd but it was just a novel light idea and good for a laugh also the easiest to change if you didn't like it

[@MrRichaf]

I actually enjoy the concept of the last one at 8:10. That is genious for the small bathroom if you love like bathtubing. And on other side you get a TV stand or whatever stand to use. Brilliant. ;-D

[@TheGahta]

yeah i must admit, its A: still functional B: doesnt involve a elevated risk of premature death and C. isnt hurting your eyes enough to turn us back to b

[@madonnahagedorn5649]

That thing by the stairs looks like it's for a pet to look out the window.

[@laurendoe168]

0:23 This actually isn't all that bad. I'm assuming that there isn't enough room to place the tub against the right wall without getting in the way of the door. The tub's current placement does not block the door or access to the toilet.

[@hevi2866]

The last one makes sense as well (also clever way to save some space with a full sized bathtub). Although it could be a bit hard to clean the feet side of the tub.

[@Typical_Fifi]

Bro... this bathtub is in the kitchen xd and those are main front doors to the appt.

[@laurendoe168]

@@Typical_Fifi And the toilet is immediately to the right of the front doors. :D

[@petersmafield3474]

I like the purple kitchen.

[@g.e131]

I like the purple kitchen actually.

[@kenstrachan1607]

In Derby, England, there used to be a car garage with an up-and-over door, with a telephone call box about 2 feet in front of the centre of the door. Another garage had concrete steps leading up to the door! Pity I didn't have a camera phone in the 1980s.

[@axa897]

In London its pretty normal to have toilet in kitchen in smallests flats . Everywhere else its not normal 🤷😂

[@lynnmartz8739]

Interesting. Glad I'm not faced with that.

[@spiekd]

I want that purple kitchen .Flooring ,cabinets and all .Its beautiful .

[@MasterBaker2020]

Some of these look like they were built by little John from galvanized square steel, eco friendly wood veneers and screws borrowed from his aunt.

[@sylvainforget2174]

I kinda liked some of those designs. You seem to have the same reaction as the one I got from my wife when I described putting a toilet from a jail supply catalogue in whatever home we got. I was working in construction management for a government department at that time.

[@E.C-Creeper_Genis]

2:25 what an great house design, perfect to keep an eye on your partner 🙃

[@dallahan]

5:24 It's a... very optimistic neighborhood, literally

[@airincuach46]

if most viewers knew Russian or even the Cyrillic alphabet, they would enjoy this photo even more ))

[@ElliLavender]

A friend of mine lives in a house that is connected through a BATHROOM to another, smaller I guess you could say "guest house". We celebrated halloween in the guest house sometimes and when you used the bathroom you always had to lock both doors. It was my nightmare that my friends mum would walk into me sitting on the toilet lol

[@user-ku9kn4es3t]

6:37 purple happens to be my favorite color but if you want to know what’s going on with the market you’re totally looking in the wrong direction NOPE The purple is giving me serial killer vibes especially the floor Advice redo the cabinets in a stain or anything but purple 😂

[@blitzcank9482]

Me watching this, as a homeless ~ 😩👌🏼

[@ZuerstJesus]

😟 God bless you! 🙏

[@MsHSpring]

My prayer and wishes for you 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 May all your desires come true!

[@neekeyzonked5574]

Whoa! What were people thinking?

[@juniorlsdmusic]

I do like the purple kitchen

[@Doggystyle944]

i like these alot as long as they still work, its quirky and cool i would totally live in places like these

[@WackoMcGoose]

Ah, so _this_ is why Real Civil Engineer can't stand architects...

[@tonilynn4383]

I liked the purple kitchen cabinets

[@BuddhaFang]

4:29 What the hell was the desired effect? Was it designed to minimize traffic like in wealthier neighborhoods? Cuz take a couple of turns and a car can just jet on thru

[@MrSaemichlaus]

Tiled ceilings are very important for the mornings after mexican food.

[@MadPaperPeople]

15k on a truly hideous kitchen...were you drunk???

[@ZombieLeo94]

The one with the houses At 4:29 Reminds me of my days as a trainee cartographer It was a pain in the ass to mark the roads and foot paths and lanes 😫

[@DavidNYC83]

This video just kept getting better and better

[@texasstardust6010]

Wow, that was interesting! Yes, kinda puts perspective on certain things, doesn't it. ......

[@Leechwife]

Asking seriously: what is wrong with the purple kitchen? It is gorgeous!

[@Мопс_001]

5:22 this is advanced Russian renovation, according to sign at the top lol

[@StickStep]

Also it literally called "neighborhood of optimists". Mmmm, irony

[@StickStep]

Also, in fact, this building was build on place with permafrost. And this kind of problems are not that rare. There's no dangerous situation about that, it's has simple technology to fix, building won't crash and so on. And I think, this stick was there just for fun and meme

[@marianapenameza8218]

Si ,si ,si la esena de Deep la esena de Deep !!!!!!🤣🫂