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Favorite Comment: Fixer Wackybeans says, “You know what this house needs? [Looking around carefully, one hand on hip, gently gnawing the temple arm of a wildly outdated pair of eyeglasses, and suddenly awestruck by the brilliance of his own inspiration, he continues softly...] “A shanty town.”
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Really really want to see this in action
Wonder why they had to label it?
Trying to impress the ladies
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Structurally inbound.
The schnozzberrires taste like schnozzberries! The disgusting brown flowers taste like..well..um…
Dude weird much?
Dingleberries?
It’s from Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory..
We know. I’m pretty sure that J-Dude 1 just wanted to use the word “Dude.”
Dude. Duh.
Littering and …. littering and …. littering and ….
Littering and smokin the reefer
Awesome. I love schnozzberries!
The cost of feeding a pet lion is one thing but the cost of the cat-flap is an entirely different story.
Beautiful tiling and tapestry!
My eyes are burning.
… and curtain too!
Well, half a curtain.
where is the Iris? close the iris! the mini Jaffa could come through any time!
I’m trying to understand the motivation behind this kludge. Is this just a kid’s fort, or is there some reason they would need to make you crawl to get into the kitchen?
I’m at a loss as well.
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That house must belong to Samus, who else do we know that would do that? The stove is probably powered by her power beam.
but then the hole would be smaller, she can do the ball thing pretty well.
The harder you work for your food, the more you appreciate it, that’s all Mom’s trying to say here…
Well, considering that the place looks to be in need of *ahem* updating, this might be containment for some sort of messy and/or noxious work happening on the far side of that room divider. My guess: ceiling’s down. I’d bet they’ve got the tunnel passing under some scaffolding and out a door on the other side that has been similarly cardboarded off.
New weight loss trick. If you have to crawl through a tunnel you eat less often.
EPIC ******* WIN
What’s EPIC here? I still don’t get the kludge. Too stupid I guess!
No, you’re fine. J-Dude 1 just wanted to say “*******.”
If you keep the picture in view, but do up-down on your mouse wheel quickly, the wallpaper on the left looks like it’s waving in the wind.
crazy ôo
Are you talking about computer equipment, or my giant mouse wheel that goes with my giant mouse tunnel?
The passage to Narnia is just trying to get people to come in now. It doesn’t want to be hidden anymore.
What the hell am I looking at?!
You mean besides the world’s ugliest tile, wallpaper, drapes and paneling?
Besides those things, I think it’s mostly cardboard.
Either that wallpaper goes, or I go…
No no no. It’s “the wallpaper and I are in a duel to the death, one of us as got to go.” I know. I have an oscar fan friend quote it at me often.
Well this will keep the dogs out of the kitchen…
oh darn.
No clue why… but thumbs up!
The 1/2 Tiles going up the wall…
Never a good idea.
Baseboard is cheap. Use it.
the tunnel looks awesome. is the mind bending mix of colors and textures the real kludge?
And why does the linoleum bend at the wall. Is it really that hard to cut off?
Coraline emerged from the tunnel and found herself in a magical world of kludgery. It appeared that everyone was replaced with kludged copies with buttons for eyes. Weird.
Realtor: This charming home has only been on the market since 1962. The previous owner ran a funhouse over on Maple Street until he went insane. All of this can be yours for the unbelievable price of $15,500 as long as you don’t ask anyone what happened in the kitchen…NEVER EVER…mmkay? Now if you’ll follow me though the tunnel to…wait! Where are you going? I haven’t even shown you the master bedroom of mirrors!!
Biggest. Mouse hole. Ever. This is what happens when Rick Moranis Experiments on mice.
The bridge to Terabitia,version 2.0.
I’m pretty sure that’s Coraline’s house.
I do want to know … where does the tunnel lead to? I can just imagine crawling through the tunnel, making all sorts of twisty turns left and right, up and down, looping round and round, then … coming to a little brown wooden flap, going through it and find yourself … back in this room.
Lyke teh Man Who Fawlded Himself?
Did you ever see Being John Malkovich?
And you realize you can still see the person you were following… just his back… across the room at the end of that cardboard tunnel… and you realize he’s wearing *your shirt*.
Best adjoining hotel room door ever.
….um, totally baffled….jaws up again…
errrr….this is a 100% WTF!?!?!? WIN!
…but it is impossible to see throu the makers eyes…how on earth!?!?!? :O
You’re in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.
The stage of Coraline. With budget cuts.
GOING TO NARNIA, BRB.
Ahaha, another clever trompe l’oeil painting’s got me again. First Wile E. Coyote put that railroad tunnel on that boulder, and now this guy and his crappy “faux entrance” only a giant guinea pig could love! Good thing this one isn’t where the bathroom entrance is supposed to be, because that’s one friendship that may not soon recover…
Source:
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/8993/matthieu-lavanchy-the-great-indoors.html
It’s not exactly a kludge, it’s meant to be art.
I see…. I will say, then, that this is not at all my favorite installment out of the collection of photos. I am, however, now weighing the merits of duct taping over an entire window for the winter months as a means of shutting out cold air.
with un durrline on “meant.”
I should have guessed it was ART. It’s not as clearly absurd as some of the other images in that set (the bed boxed inside screening that doesn’t look easy to remove) nor as clearly realistic (freshly dead plants in a crude greenhouse) or practical in an unconventional way (duct tape over the window frames)… it’s just plausible enough to puzzle.
“The mice say not to go through leetle door.”
I think the cardboard is a major asthetic improvement over the flower-print wallpaper.
Thats one big mouse!
Fire hazard FTW!
If I crawl through that, will get to be John Malkovich for an hour?
Nah, the Malkovich people had a better production budget.
If you go through this one you get to be Gary Burghoff, somewhere post-MASH but pre-After MASH..
Hidden doors to Narnia take on different dimensions each instance.
This must be in this house:
http://www.designverb.com/2007/06/11/tunnel-house/
Spongbob!
The varmints have gotten so big that we had to create a special playroom for the hamster wheel.
I like the idea of crawling through a tunnel to get somewhere, it’s more fun!
Im pretty sure that this one doesnt lead to Narnia
Where did they get the set from ‘Out of the Box’? I loved that show..when I was six.
this reminds me of a nightmare I’ve had….
I… Can’t imagine what this kludge is for.
This is what I call “Thinking outside the box”
What the hell is it for? Do they have really big dogs? Is it to annoy the housemates? To protect something while they let off a paint bomb? What? I don’t think this one gets kludge status without an explanation on what it improves.
I’m thinking its to disguise a hoarding problem….. that itty-bitty tunnel USED to be normal-door-height, but the pressure of all the STUFF behind the cardboard compressed it.
“You know what this house needs? [Looking around carefully, one hand on hip, gently gnawing the temple arm of a wildly outdated pair of eyeglasses, and suddenly awestruck by the brilliance of his own inspiration, he continues softly...] “A shanty town.”
so long, farewell
to you my friend
goodbye for now
until we meet again
it’s been great
to play and sing together
(in the box)
but now it’s time to say goodbye (shuffle snap clap)
goodbye for now
until we meet again!
…anybody else? no?
Remember the “MR FIX IT” van. Well this is his dry wall job.
Just put ‘ugly’ wall paper and that wall would have always been there!
He was’nt very dry when he hung this rock.
Narnia?
I think everyone is over-thinking this one. It’s obviously the result of drywall contractors who had some LSD slipped into their Egg McMuffins at breakfast.
The wallpaper and the floor and the curtains look like they came straight out of the 60s
They are from the 60s, which are frozen in time somewhere in suburbia. So be careful what tunnels you decide to go crawling through, because once you enter through this one, you’ll discover a world where TV is still in black and white, and most of the food is served in the shape of a jell-o mold.
Okay, if the little door in the office leads to John Malkovich’s head, who does THIS thing lead to?
“Say, has anyone seen my 62-box collection of Cat Fancy magazines…I want to rearrange them according to/OH…MY…GOD!”
Don’t you see, the person who took this picture traveled through a corrugated-fiberboard wormhole to a time when interior design was ruled by irony.
“tricksy redneck hobbitses!”
911…Where is Vern Yip when you need him?
the whole thing seems surreal.
Bob tries to cover the trap door to where he keeps the bodies…
“You know what this house needs? [Looking around carefully, one hand on hip, gently gnawing the temple arm of a wildly outdated pair of eyeglasses, and suddenly awestruck by the brilliance of his own inspiration, he continues softly...] “A shanty town.”
cardboard rocks
Heh, this one is actually kind of awesome. I know I’d be curious enough to go into that cardboard tunnel. The rest however, really need to go.
Children’s Theater set from hell
Um…………….Huh??????????????
Being Les Nessman.
It’s a time Machine…muahahaha
I think there was an episode of the X-Files like this… Mulder & Scully are about to come running out chased by a liver eating mutant.
where do you think they’re hiding the dead bodies..?
Possible “Man Cave”?
extreme makeover – hamster edition
Where is the glory hole?
Picasso tries his hand at renovation but is sadly fired
At Barf Construction we will throw it up. We use cardboard instead of wood. It goes up twice as fast.
“Visiting Grandma’s house was never the same again after she got hooked on playing the Metroid series of games… at least she could never figure out how to require a beam weapon to open the door to the bathroom…”
Due to NASA’s greatly reduced budget recycled materials from Earth have been used to form the latest module & passageway on the International Space Station.
WTF are we looking at?
I think that Fixer Wackybeans may have provided the best, ironic comment anywhere, ever.
Watch me magically teleport to the kitchen from behind this curtain
If I lived in that house I’d build a den to hide in too.
Where are the bungee cords and duct tape hiding? everyone knows that you need to have the power of the Bungee inorder to have aproperly equipped kludge
I’m not sure what this person was trying to do, but it seems like a poorly made great idea XD
Spelunkin’ right?
U know u’ve hit rock bottom when u are sleeping in a hole in the wall.
coraline movie…
my guess was setting up for a haunted house but i was only trying to thing logically in an illogical world so i dunno
EPIC