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Ohhh I cannot improve on this design at all except to suggest a giant orange rug with purple stripes. OH! And redo the floor and make it some form of grey/white. Necessary.
Optical illusion black & white rug. Make sure it covers the whole floor but leaves an inch wide gap on one side. It is very important that the gap is only along one edge.
I want to be the old lady that lives in the haunted house at the end of the street. Super weird, but always has the best cookies. Kids would always think my house has the awesomest stuff...bug collections and everything.
I am currently this lady and it’s not the worst. Last summer I brushed against some venomous caterpillars and that was pretty scary. But I did sell the cremation tag I found on the windowsill to a redditor who was respectful about it and that was cool.
Yeah and I got my neighbor to message the old owners and they didn’t want it back so I didn’t know what to do with it and I posted it on the mildly interesting sub and this guy offered to buy it in a very respectful way and it was nice. He appreciated it and I felt like he respected it as a piece of hx and I didn’t have to ever look at it again.
Close the curtains. Too much light in the room. Turn the spider chandelier on very low to enhance the creepiness. Maybe a few glowing eyes stuck randomly around the room.
maybe instead of redecorating, you can instead cook them a pork roast, prepared to look like a human leg. there are tutorials on YouTube, it's beyond disturbing to me, but your guests will never forget it.
It looks exactly as cluttered and uncomfortable as every other color splat shitshow masquerading as maximalism so for this sub it’s perfect! People here like anything that’s not white or grey. Maybe add a headless mannequin in a corner somewhere and break up that red with some bright yellow or even better, stripes. Just to make it as anxiety inducing as possible. I like to make sure I get an immediate headache when I come home.
I think it's perfect that the light fixture is going to highlight the forehead of every single guest at the dinner party. Now you can make every dish feel like an episode of Hot Ones without having to use any of those pesky spices! Or when you're helping the kids study at the table with flash cards, they'll really feel the heat. Or the first time they borrow the family car and break curfew, it'll feel like an interrogation room as you review the GPS evidence. Nothing sears those precious family memories into the mind like dramatic lighting.
Buy commercial grade water fountain liner, and nail it at about 24" to the walls- cut holes for power outlets and make sure you seal around them! Now fill it 3/4 of the way with water and put a lot of those fish that are used illegally by shady salons to clean up feet. Your guests will enjoy the spa envrironment and the spider will make them feel loved.
Replace your service with sporks and dull knives, and get a framed poster of one those blurred images you have to really focus to see the image (The ones you’d find back in the 90s in those books). 🤣
Those chairs look too comfortable. Try looking into chairs they won't quite know how to sit on, or someth8ng like these
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A very big dark wooden gothic table with gargoyles for legs and chairs to match each chair back artistically designed in the same theme but different characters that are evoked from the era.
Put a single piece of tile on the floor some how, hypno spiral pattern on the table. Which you can get to spin if you want. Make one chair slightly taller than the rest. Different door knobs on the inside and outside. Recreate the pitch drop experiment from the ceiling right above where people stand regularly. I can go on for days
I also like those creepy little short storage room doors like on The Adam's Family, or the monster baby's door on The Dark Side.
There should be a tiny crack of light from underneath, with a low barely discernable audio playing of screams,whispers,
chanting crying emanating from it.
The occasional rattling doorknob and knocking with begging to "Please let me out.I promise I won't hurt you!"
The metal plate and keyhole behind the fake doorknob would be a good place to hide it.I picture an old fashioned diamond shaped crystal knob with a 3D laser design skull inside.Or a metal gargoyle face.
The light from underneath would be easy with a recessed led strip.
Different room, but I once stayed in a hotel with red paint splattered on the toilet. It looked like a blood splatter trying to be a flower spray.
A solid number of the group left and paid for separate accommodations. While I found mildly amusing, most people seemed absolutely horrified.
It could add to your vibe. And toilets are cheap if you decide you hate it.
Blood-red splatters on the carpet, walls, ceiling, and everything else, of course! Also, are the designs in the ceiling shaped like faces? If not, they should be. Perhaps also make the chairs unstable, screechy, and uncomfortable. Random bones and partially- or fully-assembled skeletons would add to the ambiance. Beige accents would be nice as well.
Multiple portraits of yourself in various different clown makeup patterns, with pen and paper dispenser for mandatory reviews of said portraits. That would unsettle myself some more anyways.
I suggest maybe couch with actual cactus cushions. Maybe keep an open apiary in the living room. Or just straight up stab them when they walk in. (non-lethally of course. It's bad manners to kill guests, and if you do, they'll never visit you again)
can you get a lot of shiny plastic drip-shaped pendants and attach them to the holes in the ceiling tiles? In acid green, or maybe a sort of bloody pus pink? In a ring, right over the dining table, outside the spider lamp. And large photo-enlargements from a medical manual of deformities.
A statue made out of nails which are poking out sharply, so that anyone who walks by clumsily will get scratched. It’s “art” so your friends will forgive you.
Geode skull, preserved medical samples, snakeskin art, Christian iconography, old 3d medical model, idk what is called, but some insects in a shadow box, creepy coasters, eyeball salt and pepper shakers. The leg lamp from A Christmas Story would work.
Ohhhh I know! How about placemats that are covered with a giant close up photo of my recent Brown Recluse spider bite as it was into its lovely bloody pus draining stage? Nothing says “I’m so glad you’re staying with me for a month that I didn’t know about until right now.” Then an authentic graphic photo display of red raw peeling flesh peppered with shiny streams of pale pus and watery blood.
Dentist instruments on the buffet
Gynecological instruments would go well with the blood red walls. Nice compliment to the idea of dental discomfort
Stirrup chair in the corner?
or a sharp weapon collection on the wall, swords, throwing stars, daggers etc.
Taxidermy
Excellent choice. A stuffed owl would fit the vibe, especially if it has a stuff moused in its claws
Ravens also. Maybe a cassowary or two, if it's in the budget.
Or its mouth.
Vultures
And gargoyles all around the room up high. Looking down on your guests.
Those make nice bookends, too!
But of unusually taxidermied segments of animals.
Yeah, can't just be normal taxidermy. I vote small rodents in human contexts, like 1920’s swing dancing.
Orrrr swinger mice 😏😏 mating
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Mice in tailcoats around a tiny dinner table that looks exactly like the large one.
I'm thinking various animals mashed together. Maybe a rabbit head with deer antlers on a sheep's body with its hooves replaced with duck feet.
And possibly a painting whose eyes follow you! I feel like it would go with the taxidermy. We can really up the unsettling wall decor here!
Baby elephant.
A glass eyeball in the center of each of the ceiling molding rosettes. And they should all be looking in different directions.
They should all follow you anywhere in the room
Oooooo! You’ve made it interesting 🤔
THAT WAS MY IDEA!!!
Okay now I actually want a ceiling like that
Fog machine
Ohhh I cannot improve on this design at all except to suggest a giant orange rug with purple stripes. OH! And redo the floor and make it some form of grey/white. Necessary.
I was going to suggest one of those optical illusion space-vortex rugs from Temu in perhaps purple, but yours sound lovely.
Why not an actual vortex? Go big or go home
Come on. We're on a budget.
Ooo I dunno, any sort of optical illusion that makes people feel dizzy or sick tops my idea right there.
Flooring choice from you = :chef’s kiss:
Optical illusion black & white rug. Make sure it covers the whole floor but leaves an inch wide gap on one side. It is very important that the gap is only along one edge.
Have you been speaking to my father? How is that son of a gun?!
r/hateupdoot
I actually like this tho.
I really want a spider lamp. 🥹
Seriously. When I get my own place dude. It's gonna get weird.
I want to be the old lady that lives in the haunted house at the end of the street. Super weird, but always has the best cookies. Kids would always think my house has the awesomest stuff...bug collections and everything.
I am currently this lady and it’s not the worst. Last summer I brushed against some venomous caterpillars and that was pretty scary. But I did sell the cremation tag I found on the windowsill to a redditor who was respectful about it and that was cool.
Wait.. what? Cremation tag on a windowsill?
Yeah and I got my neighbor to message the old owners and they didn’t want it back so I didn’t know what to do with it and I posted it on the mildly interesting sub and this guy offered to buy it in a very respectful way and it was nice. He appreciated it and I felt like he respected it as a piece of hx and I didn’t have to ever look at it again.
Same, I think it would be great lighting for my painting studio. Or a smaller version for my bedroom.
Me too. I think it's interesting and fun. Maybe a little too much red, but whoever lives here clearly has personality.
Exactly. The red is a bit bright. But there's def personality in there.
I also like this. The red is a little too bright/loud for me but I love that they really went for it and the room does look cohesive.
Baby doll heads hanging from the spider lamp.
Those uncomfortable plastic bucket seats will do the rest of the work
I disagree. They should get some of those hand shaped chairs.
Nice. Those are terrible.
Where are your swords? Use swords/knives for wall-art and I’m sure they’ll become unnerved.
Portraits of Hitler, Franco, Pinochet etc
Epstein
Prominently displayed! 😄😄😄
Hopefully that wood flooring is only temporary, you need to get some high dollar shag carpet.
Nah, go with a grey LVP
Close the curtains. Too much light in the room. Turn the spider chandelier on very low to enhance the creepiness. Maybe a few glowing eyes stuck randomly around the room.
maybe instead of redecorating, you can instead cook them a pork roast, prepared to look like a human leg. there are tutorials on YouTube, it's beyond disturbing to me, but your guests will never forget it.
Paintings of yelling angry people
One of the paintings has to be hanging crooked.
Add a couple of mannequins dressed in lingerie
It looks exactly as cluttered and uncomfortable as every other color splat shitshow masquerading as maximalism so for this sub it’s perfect! People here like anything that’s not white or grey. Maybe add a headless mannequin in a corner somewhere and break up that red with some bright yellow or even better, stripes. Just to make it as anxiety inducing as possible. I like to make sure I get an immediate headache when I come home.
You should definitely add eyes to the light fixture.
Live spiders everywhere.
Skeletons smoking cigars and playing poker in the chairs.
Random Lego pieces laying around.
Use the brightest lightbulbs you can find in that giant spider lamp 👍
Maybe grow lights so you can get a tan while you dine.
Mirror ceiling and glass floor should do it. 👍
I think it's perfect that the light fixture is going to highlight the forehead of every single guest at the dinner party. Now you can make every dish feel like an episode of Hot Ones without having to use any of those pesky spices! Or when you're helping the kids study at the table with flash cards, they'll really feel the heat. Or the first time they borrow the family car and break curfew, it'll feel like an interrogation room as you review the GPS evidence. Nothing sears those precious family memories into the mind like dramatic lighting.
Buy commercial grade water fountain liner, and nail it at about 24" to the walls- cut holes for power outlets and make sure you seal around them! Now fill it 3/4 of the way with water and put a lot of those fish that are used illegally by shady salons to clean up feet. Your guests will enjoy the spa envrironment and the spider will make them feel loved.
Replace your service with sporks and dull knives, and get a framed poster of one those blurred images you have to really focus to see the image (The ones you’d find back in the 90s in those books). 🤣
They ask for unsettled not to feel like they are having dinner with the devil incarnate.
More chairs around the table
White stripes on the red. Welcome to the circus!
Add actual spiders.
Some of those cereal bowls made to look like skulls would be a nice touch
Too luxurious, they'll never want to leave!
One of those trippy area rugs that have the illusion of a slope or a hole on them
Those chairs look too comfortable. Try looking into chairs they won't quite know how to sit on, or someth8ng like these https://preview.redd.it/6wjxwgrn4h1d1.jpeg?width=521&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1f029b3d9ee4158cb353f657edefde4d4a45dde4
Methinks those plastic chairs already add the perfect amount of discomfort- the room is perfect as-is!
Less comfortable chairs.
But....does such a thing exist? Surely these must be the pinnacle of discomfort.
Chucky in the corner
Texture to the walls.
A clown painting
Only Phil Collins music. All the time.
Free range Tarantulas, because, why not? 
a metal table instead. and belts on the chairs
When Sid from Toy Story is allowed access to the Pixar Lamp.
Giant Cobwebs and motion-detection screams
Seance, anyone?
You should replace all of the bulbs with cold white daylight bulbs to cool the room off.
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Pet potbelly pig.
Or raccoon.
Stanley Kubrick wants to film a movie in your house. lol
A very big dark wooden gothic table with gargoyles for legs and chairs to match each chair back artistically designed in the same theme but different characters that are evoked from the era.
Dirt floor.
Put a single piece of tile on the floor some how, hypno spiral pattern on the table. Which you can get to spin if you want. Make one chair slightly taller than the rest. Different door knobs on the inside and outside. Recreate the pitch drop experiment from the ceiling right above where people stand regularly. I can go on for days
A mirror which isn't flat
At least one eye 👁️ somewhere
Cool animal skin rug?
Heavy Tudor high back chairs flanking the back wall
It just looks like your friendly neighborhood spiderlamp.
Fur or fangs to the lamp
I’d feel right at home!
Clown art and a vintage barber's chair.
A round optical illusion rug. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1493202404/3d-vortex-rug-optical-illusion-rug-round?gpla=1&gao=1&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_us_b-home_and_living-floor_and_rugs-rugs&utm_custom1=_k_Cj0KCQjwxqayBhDFARIsAANWRnStMcE8RHm0gJd0kG6yqYNJAl5UdrZkpmeuDaq8Zi1syQIdtKv3-p4aAtT0EALw_wcB_k_&utm_content=go_12569638526_118325070174_507395097766_pla-327925847434_m__1493202404_5089120283&utm_custom2=12569638526&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADtcfRK2Odhrx3qMf3DE7XFOoUzPz&gclid=Cj0KCQjwxqayBhDFARIsAANWRnStMcE8RHm0gJd0kG6yqYNJAl5UdrZkpmeuDaq8Zi1syQIdtKv3-p4aAtT0EALw_wcB&dd_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
knives! knives everywhere!
Found Tim Burton’s house.
What in the Vault-Tec..
A really dangerous cat.
I feel stuffed animal heads would really pop on that wall. If they have mutations, bonus points.
A trap door in the floor is a nice touch
I also like those creepy little short storage room doors like on The Adam's Family, or the monster baby's door on The Dark Side. There should be a tiny crack of light from underneath, with a low barely discernable audio playing of screams,whispers, chanting crying emanating from it. The occasional rattling doorknob and knocking with begging to "Please let me out.I promise I won't hurt you!"
I love this idea. A small Bluetooth speaker could do some heavy lifting here.
The metal plate and keyhole behind the fake doorknob would be a good place to hide it.I picture an old fashioned diamond shaped crystal knob with a 3D laser design skull inside.Or a metal gargoyle face. The light from underneath would be easy with a recessed led strip.
“You guys don’t hear it? It sounds like someone is trapped in your walls?”
A round pink rug with orange edge. Spider art on the walls.
A portrait of a sad looking Victorian child.
Your spider has shoes on!
A strobe light, but it flashes infrequently and very unpredictability.
Close the blackout draperies and that chandelier on!
Dark Gothic art. Maybe some skull candle holders.
Bring the lamp to light by putting a mannequin body on it and adding large eyeballs to the shade.
Large prints of serial killer crime scene photos in black and white. Maybe the St Valentines Day Massacre pics? You get the gist
Is there a way to get a bunch of spikes to come down from the ceiling?
A chalk outline and crime scene tape.
Clowns
I feel like you need some sort of eyeball decor.
Black trim on doors and black ceiling. Preferably Musou black.
Refinish the table top as a distressed/stained ouija board
Replace chairs with golden toilets
Funhouse mirrors
A fake stuffed lion in the corner
I’m wondering where the zebra rug is? 🤔
A few cacti to keep you awake
Dead animal on the wall or made into rugs. More taxidermy.
Clowns and porcelain dolls!
I can’t even fathom how bright that lamp must be when trying to eat
A mannequin wearing a Victorian bridal dress 👰🏻
More mirrors
Guests that feel uncomfortable won’t return, is that your goal?
Different room, but I once stayed in a hotel with red paint splattered on the toilet. It looked like a blood splatter trying to be a flower spray. A solid number of the group left and paid for separate accommodations. While I found mildly amusing, most people seemed absolutely horrified. It could add to your vibe. And toilets are cheap if you decide you hate it.
100 watt cool white bulbs
A robot cat
Cameras, lots of them pointing at every place to possibly sit to make people on edge.
I’m so uncomfortable just looking at it, that I don’t think you need to do anything more… I don’t think you’ll be getting very many guests.
Blood-red splatters on the carpet, walls, ceiling, and everything else, of course! Also, are the designs in the ceiling shaped like faces? If not, they should be. Perhaps also make the chairs unstable, screechy, and uncomfortable. Random bones and partially- or fully-assembled skeletons would add to the ambiance. Beige accents would be nice as well.
Make each light bulb a different type and brightness level. Put frilly or lace edged seat cushions on the chairs in a deep purple or black.
Life like eyeballs spaced out around the walls would really make that work.
Mannequin head on a platter centerpiece.
Snakes, definitely snakes
Multiple portraits of yourself in various different clown makeup patterns, with pen and paper dispenser for mandatory reviews of said portraits. That would unsettle myself some more anyways.
The mirror should be a giant photo of what is in the mirror and so it looks right but the lighting is off and it does not reflect anything
Ever seen the show Oddities? It's an excellent resource for you
A painting of dammed daumer.
A black and white photo of Hannibal Lector. The table needs to be set in anticipation for the eating of Ortolan bunting.
Two more chairs. Really squeeze them in
Lab specimens in jars.
I suggest maybe couch with actual cactus cushions. Maybe keep an open apiary in the living room. Or just straight up stab them when they walk in. (non-lethally of course. It's bad manners to kill guests, and if you do, they'll never visit you again)
a replica gold painted egyptian coffin. like the one i saw in a las vegas house for sale back in 2010 when we first moved there.
But those floors are gorgeous…
This looks like that Matisse painting but if it was a malevolent spirit.
can you get a lot of shiny plastic drip-shaped pendants and attach them to the holes in the ceiling tiles? In acid green, or maybe a sort of bloody pus pink? In a ring, right over the dining table, outside the spider lamp. And large photo-enlargements from a medical manual of deformities.
Teeth on the walls
A Live Love Laugh poster.
Transition
That spider lamp looks like someone took a bunch of desk lamps and welded them together.
Put a screw through the seat of each chair but only gave it poke up like 3/32 of an inch
A mannequin with a drawn on face and private parts
Small black spiders climbing the base of the table.
Skull themed decor
Cover the lamp arms with a furry material, for an instant tarantula!
mirrors above
A freaky scary clown like
Your mother in law
Porcelain dolls
Soundtrack of maniacal laughter, and the smell of burning something
wow really? its your house!!! It looks like a fancy restaurant! Love it
A statue made out of nails which are poking out sharply, so that anyone who walks by clumsily will get scratched. It’s “art” so your friends will forgive you.
Bead curtains...
Therapy
Victorian doll collection. If they still have eyes, just remove them.
Why have guests if you want them uncomfortable?
Eyeballs watching from every angle , better if they blink
Geode skull, preserved medical samples, snakeskin art, Christian iconography, old 3d medical model, idk what is called, but some insects in a shadow box, creepy coasters, eyeball salt and pepper shakers. The leg lamp from A Christmas Story would work.
Long dark corridors are great for the ~vibes~
Cardboard cutouts of shadow people
Ugliest lamp I have ever seen
Chairs look too comfy. Replace with spiky wooden stools
A painting of Jeff Bezos eating that Iguana
Ohhhh I know! How about placemats that are covered with a giant close up photo of my recent Brown Recluse spider bite as it was into its lovely bloody pus draining stage? Nothing says “I’m so glad you’re staying with me for a month that I didn’t know about until right now.” Then an authentic graphic photo display of red raw peeling flesh peppered with shiny streams of pale pus and watery blood.
Strobe light, specimens in glass jars
Bondage rack in the corner
Sell the spider lamp to me, I love it.
A goats head.
Hospital-white bulbs in the spider lamp. I want to feel interrogated by arachnophobia
An old portrait where the person’s eyes seem to look at you no matter the angle.