35 Design Fails So Bad They Might Be Crimes Against Furniture

John Summers • Contributor

Jun 19, 2025 9:00 PM EDT

Look, I'm not an interior designer. I'm not even interior design-adjacent. I wouldn't know a color palette from a cheese platter, and if you asked me to "create flow," I'd probably just turn on a fan. But even with my zero credentials, I know that a door should open all the way, and that windows should not, under any circumstances, be placed diagonally.

And yet, here we are.

The internet is full of design decisions so baffling, so aggressively wrong, they make you question if the people behind them were just trolling us all. Misaligned toilets, staircases to nowhere, kitchen counters that dare you to reach anything - it's a glorious mess of human error and "but why though?" energy.

So if you're ready to scream "WHO APPROVED THIS?!" at your screen at least 35 times, you're in the right place. Welcome to the worst of the worst in the world of design. May your home never suffer the same fate.