Prince's Childhood Kitchen?

Housewives: it's always best to match your outfit to your cupboards. Then you can literally just blend right in.[Retrocrush]

Room Design by M.C. Escher

...and Harpo Marx, who contributed his trademark horn. I've always wondered what walking down an xylophone staircase sounded like.

Keep Your Lute Handy

When the mood strikes, just grab it off the wall and pluck away!
[from Lileks...I think]

Pepto Abysmal

I feel this room could make me happy... if I was color blind.[Plan 59]

Fake Flower Bed Not Included

This retro-futuristic piece is quite confusing... I don't know if this is a table or a seat, but I think the aluminum siding overhang really makes it. [Plan 59]

Lemme guess...you like GREEN?!

[Eurobad.com]

Decorate Like it's 1999!

Apparently this is what 1999 was supposed to look like in the world of interior design. HAL would fulfill your every whim from your odd chair/console center. (Of course, he'd eventually take over the whole household and create a mutiny with the dishwasher.) And I bet if you sit on the chairs in the foreground you'd roll off the back immediately.

The one saving thing in this whole monstrosity is the dotted orb decorations around the console. I'd make fish bowls out of them. [Lileks]

Possible Captions for this Design Disaster

- Posh Spice's cross-dressing nephew, Bryce, makes sure she's wearing knickers.
- Back in those days they called that style of mirror "The Groucho."
- How proper is it to have a fern plant perched so precariously on that pedestal? (And how much did you spit saying that sentence aloud?)
- Did someone vomit lasagna on the wall or is that just the wallpaper?

Any others?
[OModern]

Gone to Pot

I wonder if this designer knows that there are more colors in the world than diarrhea and puke? Well, at least the colors are appropriate inspiration for the room.

[Courtesy of Omodern]

This Room Brought to You By the Number 2

It's not very often that you find a jumpsuit that matches your sofa and curtains. Or any kind of jumpsuit you'd wear out in public. CAUTION: Do not stare directly into the couch. It could burn out your retinas.

[Courtesy of Omodern.com]

Design Disaster: Scottish-Style

Lookin' aht this deesine hare, ah found oot whit it all means in mee life!
Ah've learnt a hale new wey o' communicatin'!

This is what happens when you don't Scotch-guard your couch. It just explodes into one big plaid heap that even descends up the walls.

I think I wore an outfit like this when I was 9. Gold buttons and all.

[Retrocrush]

Think of it as a Clip Show...

So sick of it all that I bailed from work early to pack a bag and get the hell out of town. I'll be gone all weekend, so you'll just have to deal with reliving the dear moments that I've already posted.

Peruse to your will, but my favorite posts are:

Dumpster Drama: Act I - the one that started it all.

Sanka Saved This Family - the story of Billy, and the social worker that saved his fanny.

"Va Va Vodka" Ad of the Day - favorite vintage ad with the Lounge's favorite gal Julie London.

I Want the Name of this Decorator - the Lounge's first Design Disaster.

...Or check out the categories to the right for your favorite topics.

Enjoy! [exit theme music, mild applause]

Sing Along Everyone!

PICTURE YOURSELF IN A BOAT ON A RIVER
WITH TANGERINE TREES AND MARMALADE SKIES
SOMEBODY CALLS YOU, YOU ANSWER QUITE SLOWLY
A GIRL WITH KALEIDOSCOPE EYES

[Courtesy of Retrocrush]

Record-Breaking Room!

"...And the award for 'Best Use of Records' goes to..."

Who's idea was it to put the random stuffed bear in the room? What does a polar bear have to do with records? Then again, what does wicker or bamboo have to do with records?

The truly tragic thing is the design of this room is completely lost on kids these days. They don't even know what the hell that round black thingie is.

[Courtesy of Ephemera Now]

Interior Design Disaster: The Potty Edition

flowers
flowers
flowers
FLOWERS
FLOWERS!
FLOWERS!!
[Courtesy of Retrocrush]

Huh?

I'm sorry, what did you say? What? WHAT?? I'm sorry, I can't hear you over this room.

[Courtesy of Retrocrush]

Familiar Bedroom...

Is it just me or does this remind anyone else of the kids' bedroom in "Escape to Witch Mountain"? Bet you there's a Winnebago parked outside; Jason is waiting for Tony to make the harmonica play itself thereby distracting the bad guys.

Man, I love that movie. But, yeah, this bedroom sucks.

What Kind of Cowboys...?

The Cowboy Bar in Jackson, WY

After the building developed both leprosy and hemorrhoids, attendence at the Cowboy Bar drastically declined.

[Courtesy of Lileks]

Fuzzy & Orange...a great combination

How many Muppets had to die to furnish this bedroom?
[Courtesy of omodern]

Too...Many...Flowers.

Holy Flower Power, Batman.

It's almost like the "I Love Lucy" episode, where Lucy wallpapers over the windows, the light sockets, the door...I think there might even be a person hidden in here somewhere.

[Courtesy of Retrocrush]