20 Poorly-designed items that are almost impossible to clean

Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor

May 8, 2024 3:00 PM EDT

We're all for interior design, but some of these things are beautiful… and impossible to keep clean.

Cleaning is a never-ending chore. You'll always have to do dishes and laundry, and those floors won't mop themselves. In any house, there are bound to be a few hard-to-reach corners or crevices. When that's the case, people tend to just ignore it. Who cares if the top of a cabinet is dusty, or if that one crawlspace has built up some dirt?

Well, it's a whole different story when it's a prominent light fixture… or one of your bathrooms. Yes, there's an entire bathroom here that's made of smooth stones, dozens of them. It looks uncomfy to walk on and sit on, and cleaning it must take hours! Sometimes things look really cool, but have no reason to exist. The stone bathroom is a good example of that.

There there are things like the tumbleweed light fixture. It looks like the kind of lamp that gets installed in a millionaire's summer home that they only visit once a year. I'm sure someone is paid big bucks to stand there with a duster or some Q-tips and get every speck of dust off of it. For the average homeowner, though, I imagine some spiders would be happy to make their webs upon it.

After you check out these oddball items that are going to be a giant pain to get cleaned, read about the go-kart employee who was stunned and bewildered by one dad's request.

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via u/TheWitchySniffy
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Pretty and sharp, I'm sure

via u/Into-the-stream

Imagine dropping a bar of soap in here… you'd have to spend all day cleaning it out.
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Forget about hard to clean, this seems impossible to drink out of

via u/jonmpls

No matter what angle you sip from, surely some coffee would spill out the other crevices.
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Not only is it a tripping hazard, but that floor will be gritty from now on

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This is where the dust bunnies live

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That's one way to ensure you don't sit for too long

via pixiepebbles
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via u/Into-the-stream
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Please say this isn't at a restaurant where the same glass gets used over and over again by strangers

via DrB****man
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Stunning!

via u/Into-the-stream
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That's so foul

via u/jonmpls
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Only the bravest window cleaners would tackle this job

via u/jonmpls

What a terrifying place to live in!
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via u/jlkunka
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This person reports that the light fixture is "Impossible to clean and ugly"

via u/Blurrybrains
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Folks, this here is a "beach basement"

via u/jonmpls
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Some bright white stairs that'll be a giant pain to clean (and to climb)

via u/Virmire_Survivor
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via u/dukisuzukii
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We all know this simply won't be cleaned, ever

via u/gkar56
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via u/Joobes
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This shell fireplace will have you dusting for hours

via u/Captain_Hampockets

It's a cute idea, but it somehow ended up looking creepy.
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Tumbleweed? Nope, just a wacky light fixture

via u/jonmpls

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20 Poorly-designed items that are almost impossible to clean

Pretty and sharp, I'm sure

Forget about hard to clean, this seems impossible to drink out of

Not only is it a tripping hazard, but that floor will be gritty from now on

This is where the dust bunnies live

That's one way to ensure you don't sit for too long

Please say this isn't at a restaurant where the same glass gets used over and over again by strangers

Stunning!

That's so foul

Only the bravest window cleaners would tackle this job

This person reports that the light fixture is "Impossible to clean and ugly"

Folks, this here is a "beach basement"

Some bright white stairs that'll be a giant pain to clean (and to climb)

We all know this simply won't be cleaned, ever

This shell fireplace will have you dusting for hours

Tumbleweed? Nope, just a wacky light fixture

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