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What is the ugliest room in your house?

Asked by ANef_is_Enuf (26839points) June 14th, 2011

What makes it so ugly? Is it on a list of to-do fixes around the house, or is it beyond help?

Every time I walk into my basement I want to cringe. It is a typical, 100 year old unfinished basement… more like a dungeon. Damp, unlevel concrete, peeling paint, mismatched walls and floors. I am humiliated every time a meter reader or repairman has to go down there.

Do you have a room in your house that you’re embarrassed for people to see?

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OpryLeigh's avatar

My bathroom. It’s stuck in the 70’s! I hate having an ugly bathroom as this is the most important room in the house for me. I dream of a beautiful cosy bathrom with an enormous free standing bath!

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

The basement where I throw clay.I would not be suprised to see the Crypt Keeper or a monster named Bubba down there.

Lightlyseared's avatar

The room with the pc and all the consoles (9) in it. It’s the wires and all the TVs/monitors.

Dutchess_III's avatar

Right now, the bedroom. It’s been a paint/work in progress for 5 weeks. Everytime I start making headway I come across another crack that needs mudded and taped…PLUS we have a king size water bed that is making one wall extremely difficult!

Jude's avatar

Bathroom. They have “new oak” cabinets in there. I want to string that puppy with lights to distract you from the oak. Barf. Also, a not so pretty sink.
I rent.

QueenOfNowhere's avatar

My maid’s room… this sounds bad. But she doesn’t even sleep there so I guess its okay.

Blueroses's avatar

My downstairs bathroom. It was decorated when the house was built – 1978. It’s oh so hip! Bright green and yellow huge flower power wallpaper above the rail, blue and green and yellow stripes below.

I can’t decide if it’s cool or tragic, but it’s staying as a time capsule.

wundayatta's avatar

I have a hundred year old basement, too. Home to vast amounts of bugs, spiders, mice and rats. The rat infestation meant we had to remodel the corner of the basement at 4000 dollars mind you. The Pargeting had all worn off over that 110 years, and now it needs a new coat. At 4000 dollars per eight of the basement, you can forget about it. But at least once corner of the basement looks ok.

erichw1504's avatar

My man-cave. Let’s just say: what happens in the man-cave, stays in the man-cave.

YARNLADY's avatar

My husbands office/library.

marinelife's avatar

Our guest room is very, very tiny. The bed takes up almost the entire space.

muppetish's avatar

The backyard is in an awful state, but if this is limited to spaces indoors then I would go with the shared bathroom upstairs. Almost nothing in there works.

Haleth's avatar

My study, because it’s a hot mess. There are cleaning supplies here that are actually gathering dust because I never use them, around five tiny little table lamps, a shitload of dirty coffee mugs, posters tacked on the wall, crusty old paints, canvases, curtain rods, an iron, a dusty fan, empty wine bottles, office supplies, old food wrappers, an ugly office couch, and it’s anchored by a huge, hulking monolith of a plywood desk. I’m stubbornly proud of this room.

Dutchess_III's avatar

@Haleth You’re grounded till you clean your room!!

bubba3778's avatar

My own room sadly. It’s sort of like an over-sized closet and still has rainbow wallpaper from when I was a kid! I can’t wait to re-model it..whenever that day comes…

dannyc's avatar

My small weight room. The weights sit there taunting and torturing me to actually use them after 5 years.

Neizvestnaya's avatar

My bedroom. Since we moved last summer then there are unpacked boxes torn into, stacks of stuff on the floor with no homes made yet, crooked curtain rod hung by my mother, ugly mish mash bedding and two dressers with papers, bills and other garbage overflowing. Everything I hate about how a house should be kept is represented in my bedroom, it’s eerie and wrong.

Cruiser's avatar

The left bay of the garage that is an atrocious dump of a fishing boat buried by junk.

Berserker's avatar

My roomate’s bedroom, which was my storage room (it’s actually a bedroom though) is nasty as shit. The walls are painted Kraft Dinner orange. And when I moved in there, the light bulb on the ceiling was covered in dried blood. I kept it. It’s nasty, but awesome at the same time.

mazingerz88's avatar

Can’t say I have one right now in the place we’re renting. We pretty much decorated rather nicely. My friend’s 100 year or so basement is something else though. I go down there once in a while and honestly, if for some reason anyone here notices I’m not Fluthering and cares enough to investigate, I’m sure that’s where you will find me. But you would have to do some digging. And bring a wooden stake and garlic and Holy Water just in case. : )

Berserker's avatar

@mazingerz88 Haha awesome. I love old basements. Mine is gnarly, I like it. I wanna see yours!

mazingerz88's avatar

@Symbeline What? Gnaaarrly?! Lol. What the heck kind of a basement is that? Are there Druids there? Lol.

Berserker's avatar

It’s made of concrete and wooden beams. There’s a huge wooden table that looks like a torture rack, which I’ve decorated with chains and old knives I wouldn’t otherwise need anymore lol. That was nearly six years ago. It’s all the more awesome now, cuz it’s full of dust.

mazingerz88's avatar

@Symbeline Perfect, we can now shoot the next horror movie hit along the Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity kind. : ]

YARNLADY's avatar

OK, if we are not limited to a room in the house, I will change my answer to the enclosed patio, where I am forced to store most of my sewing supplies and my treadmill with the TV/DVD viewer.

With two adult grandsons with their own rooms, and two toddler grandsons with their playroom/sleeping room, I have had to move my sewing room to the enclosed patio, and it is a complete mess.

Berserker's avatar

@mazingerz88 Yeah, and ours will rule because it has actual decors in it, not just random trees or some dude’s house. XD

cookieman's avatar

My laundry room. It was the finished part of my basement until heavy storms caused street flooding and about three inches of water in my basement. It took weeks to dry out (even with sump pumps and a dehumidifier). Saturated walls had to be torn out to avoid mold. So there it sits – a mess.

BarnacleBill's avatar

@ANef_is_Enuf, it sounds like we have the same basement. Barring that, either the kitchen which needs redoing, or the small den off the kitchen. Both the kitchen and the den share a severely uneven floor, thanks to the problems in the basement.

tranquilsea's avatar

Our kitchen is the last room in the house to be re-modelled. It is really ugly. The worst aspect is the early 80s linoleum. It is a yellowish, goldish, brownish pattern that is cringe-worthy.

ANef_is_Enuf's avatar

@BarnacleBill mine stinks today. Like incredible dampness creeping up the stairs. I’m pretty mad at my basement today.

@tranquilsea isn’t all 80s linoleum yellowish/goldish/brownish? :)

Brian1946's avatar

@ANef_is_Enuf

“isn’t all 80s linoleum yellowish/goldish/brownish? :)”

The linoleum in my kitchen is those colors, and it was here when I moved into my house in 1974. :-o

ucme's avatar

The bathroom after a night on the piss & a curry supper.
Caution Radioactive Toxic Waste!

Bellatrix's avatar

I like all the rooms in my house. The outside though, the patio is yet to be renovated and it’s a mess. Looks a bit like a builder’s yard at the moment.

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