#bad interior design

[mcmansionhell]

we've found it folks: mcmansion heaven

Hello everyone. It is my pleasure to bring you the greatest house I have ever seen. The house of a true visionary. A real ad-hocist. A genuine pioneer of fenestration. This house is in Alabama. It was built in 1980 and costs around $5 million. It is worth every penny. Perhaps more.

Now, I know what you're thinking: "Come on, Kate, that's a little kooky, but certainly it's not McMansion Heaven. This is very much a house in the earthly realm. Purgatory. McMansion Purgatory." Well, let me now play Beatrice to your Dante, young Pilgrim. Welcome. Welcome, welcome, welcome.

It is rare to find a house that has everything. A house that wills itself into Postmodernism yet remains unable to let go of the kookiest moments of the prior zeitgeist, the Bruce Goffs and Earthships, the commune houses built from car windshields, the seventies moments of psychedelic hippie fracture. It is everything. It has everything. It is theme park, it is High Tech. It is Renaissance (in the San Antonio Riverwalk sense of the word.) It is medieval. It is maybe the greatest pastiche to sucker itself to the side of a mountain, perilously overlooking a large body of water. Look at it. Just look.

The inside is white. This makes it dreamlike, almost benevolent. It is bright because this is McMansion Heaven and Gray is for McMansion Hell. There is an overbearing sheen of 80s optimism. In this house, the credit default swap has not yet been invented, but could be.

It takes a lot for me to drop the cocaine word because I think it's a cheap joke. But there's something about this example that makes it plausible, not in a derogatory way, but in a liberatory one, a sensuous one. Someone created this house to have a particular experience, a particular feeling. It possesses an element of true fantasy, the thematic. Its rooms are not meant to be one cohesive composition, but rather a series of scenes, of vastly different spatial moments, compressed, expanded, bright, close.

And then there's this kitchen for some reason. Or so you think. Everything the interior design tries to hide, namely how unceasingly peculiar the house is, it is not entirely able to because the choices made here remain decadent, indulgent, albeit in a more familiar way.

Rare is it to discover an interior wherein one truly must wear sunglasses. The environment created in service to transparency has to somewhat prevent the elements from penetrating too deep while retaining their desirable qualities. I don't think an architect designed this house. An architect would have had access to specifically engineered products for this purpose. Whoever built this house had certain access to architectural catalogues but not those used in the highest end or most structurally complex projects. The customization here lies in the assemblage of materials and in doing so stretches them to the height of their imaginative capacity. To borrow from Charles Jencks, ad-hoc is a perfect description. It is an architecture of availability and of adventure.

A small interlude. We are outside. There is no rear exterior view of this house because it would be impossible to get one from the scrawny lawn that lies at its depths. This space is intended to serve the same purpose, which is to look upon the house itself as much as gaze from the house to the world beyond.

Living in a city, I often think about exhibitionism. Living in a city is inherently exhibitionist. A house is a permeable visible surface; it is entirely possible that someone will catch a glimpse of me they're not supposed to when I rush to the living room in only a t-shirt to turn out the light before bed. But this is a space that is only exhibitionist in the sense that it is an architecture of exposure, and yet this exposure would not be possible without the protection of the site, of the distance from every other pair of eyes. In this respect, a double freedom is secured. The window intimates the potential of seeing. But no one sees.

At the heart of this house lies a strange mix of concepts. Postmodern classicist columns of the Disney World set. The unpolished edge of the vernacular. There is also an organicist bent to the whole thing, something more Goff than Gaudí, and here we see some of the house's most organic forms, the monolith- or shell-like vanity mixed with the luminous artifice of mirrors and white. A backlit cave, primitive and performative at the same time, which is, in essence, the dialectic of the luxury bathroom.

And yet our McMansion Heaven is still a McMansion. It is still an accumulation of deliberate signifiers of wealth, very much a construction with the secondary purpose of invoking envy, a palatial residence designed without much cohesion. The presence of golf, of wood, of masculine and patriarchal symbolism with an undercurrent of luxury drives that point home. The McMansion can aspire to an art form, but there are still many levels to ascend before one gets to where God's sitting.

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#architecture #design #mcmansion #mcmansions #ugly houses #interior design #bad architecture

[weirdhome]

#worst interior design #weird home #weird architecture #weird interior design #bad interior design

[bun-parade]

Tonight I learned that the steam from my shower can set off the smoke detector.

I have a couple questions:

1. Why is there a smoke detector right outside the bathroom door?

2. And why is there a smoke detector right outside the bathroom door when there is also a smoke detector less than a foot away in the kitchen?

3. AND WHY IS THERE NO SMOKE DETECTOR IN THE FUCKING KITCHEN???

#this is my villain origin story #my one bad day #all im asking for is some FUCKING PEACE IS THAT SO HARD #buntalk #personal rant #apartment living #bad interior design

[shitgoblindingleberry]

i like to think that sung hyunjae’s house decor is just really fucking ugly. not because it’s like. badly arranged or messy. but because where there should be your typical rich person ‘famous painting on the wall’ type stuff there is instead some framed thing and when you get closer it’s just the fucking rosetta stone. and people will be like how do you even have that??

but anyone (anyone who is rich*) can get a painting. there’s famous art on every world. shj wants something new, something novel. something that is undeniably specific to earth. something that’s hard to get, regardless of whether he even likes it or not. because he’s also more interested in showing that he CAN get whatever he wants than actually WANTING anything.

his entire aesthetic also probably changes every month because once he gets bored of the items decorating his house they go off into a seseong guild closet somewhere

#the apple that dropped on newton’s head is actually rotting in shj’s pantry rn #but tbh his house is probably flawless he’s too gay to be bad at interior design #sung hyunjae #tscir #the s classes that i raised #tsctir #sctir #my s class hunters #god how tf do i tag this fandom guys

[happyheidi]

#this!! #I want this so bad!! #cottagecore #flowers #flowercore #nature #naturecore #warmcore #interior #urban cottagecore #home inspiration #interior design #bedroom #bathroom #eclectic #plants #books #warm aesthetic #city aesthetic #city architecture #cottage academia #moodboard #home inspo #grandmacore #photography #cozycore #cosycore

[eldrichfuck666]

My pathetic attempt at furnishing a nursery ~

#ts4 screenshots #sims 4 screenshots #ts4 interior #sims 4 interior #idk how to tag #i guess #pls say its not terrible because in comparison to everyone elses builds and interiors its truly is pathetic #sorry for being bad at everything #maybe i should have deleted my simblr when i started #i just feel like... #its not enough #i wish i was even a tinnest bit as good as everyone else #it may sound stupid and i understand it but its kind of... painful? #*olya's pathetic tries at interior designs (sorry to your eyes)

[cosmog-mcgee]

(Click for better quality I think ??)

Had a thought about an AU where Sun & Moon run a sweet shop yesterday and rushed to draw Sun's design JSHSJDF !! He's based off of those gummy sweets that are half fruit gummy and half sugar foam—like haribos and randoms

Link to Moon's design

Parts of the design (especially the apron & some of the face) were inspired by @crabsnpersimmons Rain Or Shine AU, which everyone should check out because it's So Cute !!

(Textless version and close-ups with more detailed ALT text under the cut !!)

#dca fandom #fnaf daycare au #fnaf dca au #fnaf daycare attendant #fnaf sun fanart #fnaf sundrop #fnaf dca #fnaf daycare fandom #fnaf sun #I got told my art style looks like sweets and I Had to take advantage of it JSHDHFGJ #I don't think I've ever had a mango & pineapple flavoured fruit gummy but I HAVE had pineapple & mango sorbet before and it was Great so !! #I struggled so bad with settling on a design for the sleeves I just knew I wanted him to have them #Thinking that the shop's just gonna be called Superstar Sweets and I'm SO excited to design an interior I love doing room designs #Either way this was super fun !! #arty mcgee #au mcgee #starsweets au #(Just using that as short hand so I can find this in the future HSJDGF)

[keepingitneutral]

The Weave House, Navsari, India,

The BAD Studio

#art #design #architecture #india #interiors #interiordesign #navsari #weave #luxurylifestyle #luxuryhouses #luxuryhomes #bad studio #sustainability #sustainable architecture #bricks #minimalism

[mcmansionhell]

mojo dojo casa house

Howdy folks! Sorry for the delay, I was, uhhhh covering the Tour de France. Anyway, I'm back in Chicago which means this blog has returned to the Chicago suburbs. I'm sure you've all seen Barbie at this point so this 2019 not-so-dream house will come as a pleasant (?) surprise.

Yeah. So this $2.4 million, 7 bed, 8.5+ bath house is over 15,000 square feet and let me be frank: that square footage is not allocated in any kind of efficient or rational manner. It's just kind of there, like a suburban Ramada Inn banquet hall. You think that by reading this you are prepared for this, but no, you are not.

Scale (especially the human one) is unfathomable to the people who built this house. They must have some kind of rare spatial reasoning problem where they perceive themselves to be the size of at least a sedan, maybe a small aircraft. Also as you can see they only know of the existence of a single color.

Ok, but if you were eating a single bowl of cereal alone where would you sit? Personally I am a head of the table type person but I understand that others might be more discreet.

It is undeniable that they put the "great" in great room. You could race bicycles in here. Do roller derby. If you gave this space to three anarchists you would have a functioning bookshop and small press in about a week.

The island bit is so funny. It's literally so far away it's hard to get them in the same image. It is the most functionally useless space ever. You need to walk half a mile to get from the island to the sink or stove.

Of course, every McMansion has a room just for television (if not more than one room) and yet this house fails even to execute that in a way that matters. Honestly impressive.

The rug placement here is physical comedy. Like, they know they messed up.

Bling had a weird second incarnation in the 2010s HomeGoods scene. Few talk about this.

Honestly I think they should have scrapped all of this and built a bowling alley or maybe a hockey rink. Basketball court. A space this grand is wasted on sports of the table variety.

You would also think that seeing the rear exterior of this house would help to rationalize how it's planned but:

Not really.

Anyways, thanks for coming along for another edition of McMansion Hell. I'll be back to regular posting schedule now that the summer is over so keep your eyes peeled for more of the greatest houses to ever exist. Be sure to check the Patreon for today's bonus posts.

Also P.S. - I'm the architecture critic for The Nation now, so check that out, too!

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#architecture #design #mcmansion #mcmansions #ugly houses #interior design #bad architecture #2010s #2019 #Illinois

[theflyingfeeling]

can't believe I went to the meet & greet today just to complain to Olli about the free poster not matching my interior design and to tell Joel I'd like one Big Mac, a large drink and garlic dip

#olli told me to change my interior design #joel did not laugh #tough crowd #i'm so sorry joel but in my defence i was dared and also your look with the cap really be like that #i also bonded over dachshunds with aleksi #(said hi from our doxies (showed a picture) and that if rilla doesn't want to go out for walkies in stupid wet weather she doesn't have to) #(and aleksi said that's exactly what rilla was thinking this morning) #said hi to niko and tommi #and wondered to joonas about how he and tommi had already finished signing my thing while i had taken my time bullying joel #probably gonna feel bad about having made fun of joel to his face for the rest of the night though 🙈

[blobbei-art]

I usually don't post character design WIPs but they take me so long that I kind of just wanted to share something for once.

A potential anatomical makeover for Theresia! Some kind gryphon-centaur creature inspired by a mix of Dromaeosaurid and Microraptor.

Some more WIPs and a little explanation under the cut.

Drawing her monster form is such a pain because her design is a little overcomplicated and leaves very little room for a clear silhouette, especially when you add wings. And because I liked Lynel Theresia a lot (and also have been hyped by the Dungeon Meshi anime coming out, Falin/Farlyn my beloved) i thought maybe it's time for her to get a little more space to her body to make room for all those details! I also wanted to simplify her stone patterns and set her wings apart from her body.

#character design #creature design #dromaeosaurid #mircoraptor #gryphon #centaur #oc #ocs #theresia #wip #shes supposed to be a statue w a fleshy interior #but the broken wings revealing the armature underneath kind of doesnt support this #so i tried playing around with how to fix that #except all of it looked bad lol #no red for theresia #also she didnt look statue-y enough #and i figured what makes things look like a statue is a uniform colour #like clothes skin hair all that being white or something #which is unfortunate bc i wanted to have colours setting apart body parts for clarity

[bun-parade]

Tonight I learned that the steam from my shower can set off the smoke detector.

I have a couple questions:

1. Why is there a smoke detector right outside the bathroom door?

2. And why is there a smoke detector right outside the bathroom door when there is also a smoke detector less than a foot away in the kitchen?

3. AND WHY IS THERE NO SMOKE DETECTOR IN THE FUCKING KITCHEN???

#this is my villain origin story #my one bad day #all im asking for is some FUCKING PEACE IS THAT SO HARD #buntalk #personal rant #apartment living #bad interior design

[covertblizzard]

Superman: uncertain and asking advice Wally: good and sound advice Superman: wow maybe you're right...

Kyle: hi 

Wally: TIME TO BE STUPID COMPETITIVE

Superman: Kyle's presence is annoying. Not anything he's doing, no. Just that the second he appears Wally instantly turns from mature experienced superhero to childish brat again

#wally west #clark kent #kyle rayner #flash #superman #green lantern #justice league #a few heartwarming things: wally thinks quite highly of ollie #clark being lowkey placating and all interior design lost a genius wally lmaooo #kyle bringing out the child in wally (not always in a good way but you know probably not always a bad thing too) #do you think barry and iris watching over wally like kyle's influence on wally or not #anyway i thought of titling this something click-baity af like the real reason why superman does not like kyle #he makes wally dumb

[gailynovelry]

The great thing about being in charge of our own book design stuff is that we can, in fact, decide to go through a ridiculous amount of effort to create custom headers for every chapter.

We've gotten about two thirds of the way through Shadow Herald's headers right now. Downside; every time a chapter takes place in a new location, we have to draw that location. Upside; every time we draw a location, we can reuse it later. My gods do the shop interiors take forever.

#book design #writeblr #writing community #booklr #indie books #look we finished Charlan's shop today and it is very charming but it took us two days to do #only locations left in this book are the World's Wound and the interior of Silamir's temple #i think we're gonna . . . cheat a little for camp Veldin and either just reuse the (six different seasonal) forest BGs for full mileage #maybe add an overlay layer with a couple tents to make it Specifically Camp Veldin as opposed to just any ol' part of the woods #we will have to. draw the inside. of the Matrius' palace. and also the royal registry. #but i think the registry will not be too bad probably? #the question is simply where is it fine to cop out a little and where do we decide to doodle every object in a story despite knowing that #we will need to slap an unfocus blur + dents filter on anyway #it's necessary #because that is what ensures that the bgs are JUST bg and not making it hard to make out the PoV characters #o shit and we have to get Crislie a “:(” expression #Navaeli has a “:)” and a “:(” expression #Mep only has “>:(” because he is Mep and that is usually how he looks but i think he will get a “:(” too

[calware]

you should add to your FAQ "are you the op of the color theory post?"

i think people should learn about it through chance. it's like a jumpscare that way

#ask #shortcakeproject #still thinking about the time my roommate and i were talking about interior design and they were like ''there are no bad color palettes'' #so i went to pull up that ''horrible color palette'' drawing challenge with the ''my wife left me'' palettes and stuff #but they went ''are you going to show me that girl boy color post. because they're not that bad the op just arranged them badly'' #and i was like. there is no way this is real this CANNOT be real..

[bilbao-song]

Detail from an ad for Viking Appliances, scanned from Florida Design, Summer 2001.

#vintage #vintage interiors #2001 #y2k #early 2000s #2000s #blue #2000s aesthetic #y2k aesthetic #retro #vintage advertising #vintage ads #hsc:fd* #uploads* #queue #im obsessed w these florida design magazinessss i want more so bad but they're so expensive on ebay #i got two for 50 cents at a thrift store