Uncomfortable, Weird And Dumb Moments Of DIY Construction

Eric Lund

Apr 26, 2022 4:00 PM EDT

Building a house seems simple until you realize how easy it is for something to go wrong. "It's just four walls, a few pipes and a couple toilets, how hard can it be" is the first step to living in a death trap of your own making. The corners people are willing to cut can result in some extremely unaesthetic living conditions. For example, why do people invariably decide that the best place for an electrical outlet should be in a bathtub?

For every right way to do things, there are at least a hundred ways to do it wrong. And as much as we'd like to try sitting on a toilet that's conveniently raised six feet in the air, it's probably sort of uncomfortable. Though it likely does make one feel like a lord to be able to survey their land while dropping a grumpy.

Here are some perilously uncomfortable rooms with all bad vibes.