Home Design Fails That Make You Feel Better About Your Own Home
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- Опубликовано: 19 авг 2024
- Home Design Fails That Make You Feel Better About Your Own Home
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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."
I think it’s likely most if not all of these didn’t pull permits.
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.
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
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
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.
The martini tub was probably not in a living room but in a "romantic" honeymoon suite in a Poconos hotel in the 1970s.
They've still got them!
Thanks for this! Now I feel that my average-looking one-bedroom flat is contemporary design at its peak.
This makes me so thankful I live in a country that has building regulations. There's no regulations covering bad taste though unfortunately...
And every single one of these people thought they had a perfectly logical and good reason for it
Quite so...which is pretty worrying.
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.
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.
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"
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.
After watching this, the Winchester House makes sense.
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!!
I can remember when carpeted bathrooms were a "thing" in the '60s.
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 👍
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)
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
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).
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.
even the oven is terrified by the pleather cabinets
i was checking to see if anyone else had noticed that...poor oven.
My thoughts as well 🤣
I think a lot of these are due to normal houses or apartments in big cities being chopped up by landlords in an effort to make more money off of them. Why not turn your $3000 a month apartment into THREE $3000 a month apartments? So what if you have to put a toilet in the kitchen? This is nothing but just plain greed.
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.
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.
Sounds like the only probable explanation.
The outcome certainly does not deserve a place here. It's just one (old) grid integrated into another (newer) grid. No major roads involved. Some old houses had their land lots cut, hopefully they got some compensation for this. But what was the alternative, tear down the old town completely?
Thanks Happy Land, I DO feel better about my home. 😂😂Another gem of a video! 🥰🥰
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.
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.
But if you want to adjust the temp in middle of shower?
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?
@@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.
@@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.
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. 🤦
And in many cases, both!
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.
That sounds amazing. Which city was it in?
Sounds fun!
5:11 I actually liked the way they designed the cabinets it's unique and cool.
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.
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! 😉)
I know the guy that lives in that narrow house, people call him Slim Jim.
😉😆😂😄.... one of the best comments I've read today!
All I can shriek while viewing these examples of insanity is "WHY"?
That's why I chose the word disturbing over 'slightly' disturbing. Ahaha
I agree with you most of them require 5 minutes explaining. WHY
Not gonna lie...but I would buy this purple kitchen😂💜
me too. i would so buy it XD
They built the house for you, then. I - sincerely - hope you find your wonderful quirky dream home and that you love it.
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.
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.
7:33 Is that the Weasley residence?
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.
Looks like a typical post-ww2 dovecote in my city. Some of these around my parents apartment block were at least 10 meters tall, 3 to 5 levels. These levels (much smaller than in residential blocks) made the dovecote look taller than it really was. Lots of plywood and glass on the surface, but with some over-engineered DIY framing inside. I don't recall any accidents with them, they remained vertical until the city demolished them in the 1990s. The few remaining ones are merely two, at most three levels tall.
I am glad I live in a country where the law requires two doors betwen a toilet and a kitchen.
Jokes on you! They have 3 cabinet DOORS!
If you ever wondered why we have building codes…. You’ve just seen it.🐝🤗❤️
7:34 - Poor man's Winchester House. "Just keep building!"
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
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! 🔥
A bathroom in the kitchen is a good way to make you sick
There's an old saying about that.
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!
*$15,000* though, wow. I'd consider the house if it were decently priced then just paint the cabinets white
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.
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.)
The purple kitchen could use a little teal.
1:46: Here in Germany, a toilet seat is sometimes colloquially called "the throne". Apparently, the designer of this toilet was inspired by this. 👑
Ahaha same in France 😂
I actually like the purple kitchen, although I can totally see why they'd have a hard time selling. Most people just aren't comfortable with quite so much color.
Taps outside the Shower is a Care Givers dream.
Il faut me laver les yeux maintenant avec des choses belles à voir.
You should have had Sims 1 build music as the background.
A lot of these are like Sims rag to riches, where you can't afford walls yet
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...!"
Personally, I loved the purple kitchen
it was actually the prettiest and most practical thing here ;)
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?
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
That elevated 'closet' 1:00 is a utility access door, they usually lead to a HVAC unit, water heater, etc. I've seen a few, they always seem a little odd but it's far better than having to saw a hole in the wall or crawl through a narrow attic channel to access for maintenance.
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.
I was going to say hilarious and disturbing at the same time....
Tiled ceilings are very important for the mornings after mexican food.
5:13 the oven doors 'face' says it all
Honestly, I LOVE the purple kitchen 😅💜
This is actually how some peoples brains work. Can you imagine 😬 Some scary 💩
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!
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!
necessity is the mother of invention
And whoever did the kitchen in purple you rock. I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
Motion picture of still pictures. Words appear at bottom of screen. Dull music plays in background. No one talks. Nothing is explained. No locations given. Just sit and look at a still picture, listening to the dull music, waiting for the next still picture. So convenient! You don't even have to hit 'next'. You just sit there and drool like a vegetable. In fact, it's like watching vegetables grow!
Dang most of these are pre plumbing homes. Where the bathrooms use to be a closet.
You know what? I am not complaining about my house ever again after this....😂😂😂. O.M.G.
0:34 at least its not blocking the door...😂😂😂
I very rarely LIKE these things however this gets one!!!
Bob
England
What are you saying Bob
@@cocolives No agenda simple reason, I just finally liked one presentation. Simple please don’t complicate things.
Bob
England
@@BobMuir100 You don't need to write Bob England after every comment, Bob
@@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
0:40 Omg!!! This bathtub with the stairs below it is a death trap waiting to happen.
TIL that apparently the bathroom/ bathroom appliances are the most common thing to mess up in architecture and interior designing
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!
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.
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
Ayo havoc
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
haha this gives me hope in humanity that I'm not the stupidest.
The floating table was actually really cool
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.
Cabinets, carpets, and paint can be changed with little expense
@@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.
5:24 It's a... very optimistic neighborhood, literally
if most viewers knew Russian or even the Cyrillic alphabet, they would enjoy this photo even more ))
What's up with toilets in the kitchen, or up a flight of stairs...in the kitchen?
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.
6:40. That is a sight for sore eyes. What were these people thinking. 😮,,
The purple marble in the screen cap isn't bad but the matching cabinets make it look like a Barney murder scene.
I want that purple kitchen .Flooring ,cabinets and all .Its beautiful .
This video made me think that maybe it's not a bad thing that kitchen and bathroom stores will only sell pre-made sizes of cabinets etc, and greige seems to be the only option. And I hate the greige era we seem to be in right now. I think I might have nightmares about that stairs that was one big toupet...
In London its pretty normal to have toilet in kitchen in smallests flats . Everywhere else its not normal 🤷😂
Interesting. Glad I'm not faced with that.
I like the purple design in the thumbnail because i am a purple person
i want it :(
Most of these wouldn't pass Building Regs in the UK and would therefore be unsaleable.
6:11 - Eh, I can see that working. You can close the curtains. Though I will say that I would personally prefer that the shower/tub combo have actual sealing doors just for that slight extra bit of air isolation.
1:08- wait, where's the toilet?
OH MY GOD.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bro... this bathtub is in the kitchen xd and those are main front doors to the appt.
@@Typical_Fifi And the toilet is immediately to the right of the front doors. :D
I love the purple kitchen!!!
After seeing these houses I’m extremely happy that I live in the USA in a normal house and not in the middle east, England or Russia where houses look like the ones in this video.
8:08 is interesting. They managed to use part of the bath space to make a bench.
Makes one be glad for our building laws, I can just imagine. Carol
Instances of a toilet installed higher than floor level (such as at 1:47) are normally in a basement (often in an apartment), where putting it on the floor would have put it below the main sewer drain.
I love how the stove in the leather cabinet kitchen was frowning 😂😂
OK the tub work around at 8:10, While not well executed, is a clever work around.
5:22 this is advanced Russian renovation, according to sign at the top lol
Also it literally called "neighborhood of optimists". Mmmm, irony
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
Tree in front of the driveway. That is probably a city tree and the owner had nothing to say about it.
New housing development: I put in forms for a cement walkway from the sidewalk to the existing walkway. the city came in and planted a city tree in the middle of my cement forms. Had to file a form and get it ok'd by the city to remove it. A neighbor actually put in a round circle of bricks for the city to plant the tree and the guy planted it outside the circle. They have their measurements and that's where it has to go. Period.
Tbh I personally loved the purple kitchen. Now if I had it I can get all my appliances pink and purple 💜💕
The lines under everything where hilarious on top of some rather piculiar design endavours😂 thx a bunch
2:25 what an great house design, perfect to keep an eye on your partner 🙃
That thing by the stairs looks like it's for a pet to look out the window.
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?
Wow, "This Monstrosity" at the 8:02 mark was so amazing, I had to hit Pause.
Asking seriously: what is wrong with the purple kitchen? It is gorgeous!
So that walk through window door down steps to some tiny place is 750 pounds per month or 173 per week. Look I know space is tight in London but come on now!
And this reminds me of a townhome I was walking through looking to buy my first place. It was a nice outside place, tour on the inside seemed nice, could not undestand why it was on the market for like 100 days .. then we opened the Bathroom door. Black floor tiles. Black wall tiles. Black tub. Black toilet. Even a black shower curtain. Immaculate yet .. wow. I looked at my sister who dealt with new homes sales and she was just shaking her head.
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
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.
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 ?" 😂
Toilets in or anywhere near the kitchen made me feel nauseous . I refuse to believe those are real. No way.