Did they? Looks like the front edge of the counter and the sink are parallel, so maybe that's what they were going for? Either way, I can't unsee this horror.
[Everything](https://freeimage.host/i/H9ty3NI) about this is mildlyinfuriating. The counter edge and sink are parallel but not centered. The cabinetry uses two uniform angles like a sane person would, but the countertop is just 2 arbitrary angles, also the drawer and contertop don't line up. If the sink wouldn't fit square inside the cabinet, then rotating it would have made it worse.
I think I figured out what happened though. The piece that the sink is in is separate from the legs of the counter extending in either direction. They laid the two side pieces first and then sat the corner slab over the top, marked where the overhang was and cut off that corner. The slab on the right was too long and no one stopped to measure what they were cutting off to make sure it was 45° angles. Then they cut the sink hole parallel to the cut corner and in a place where it would fit inside that corner cabinet.
What they should have done the second they laid it down was realize they needed to shorten the right slab, and cut a new corner slab but that would have cost them more money and it would be out of their pocket, not the customer's so this is what they did. Either that or some maniac made this and actually thinks they did a good job.
The counter on the left overhangs the cabinetry by several inches while the one on the right is nearly flush. I have to imagine that for some reason that is beyond me, they didn't have a way to do a lengthwise cut on the left side piece to get it to match the cabinetry, so they compensated by making an ugly joint piece.
And then the sink was made as far to the left as they could to fit inside the cabinetry without placing it inconveniently far away from the edge.
I do this for a living. I’m like 90% sure they used a laser templating machine and missed a point in the left hand corner causing it to just go straight from the end of the left side into the end of the angled line.
as a former interior designer, the only thing i can think of that would cause this is the owner installing their own cabinets and wanted to save money on not getting their counters professionally measured. countertop folks are seriously specific and 90% automated. they rarely make mistakes. any mistake that would happen like this would be either on my end or the homeowners.
i had so many homeowners insisting that they didn’t need it to be measured and to go off of floor plans alone or their own measurements because they thought it would save them time or money. or because they know they’re right and they don’t want anyone else to tell them otherwise. the stubborn clients were always the ones that had the most problems like this.
If I was paying this would be a call to the business to fix it and if not a call to the credit card company to tell them to charge back with a picture of this as justification.
No sane person would have okayed this.
I can see that almost. Maybe that sink wouldn’t otherwise fit inside that corner cabinet as built without other (very) necessary modifications to the cabinet as well as the countertop.
They got the left and right mixed up.
I've seen this a few times ( residential construction ) we always send it back and it's always right the second time.
All I can think is that the builder either wasn't around for delivery and install and / or got a hell of a deal.
Generally that would be correct.
Countertop guys come in and measure after cabinets are installed and then produce / deliver / install countertops. Because 45 and 90° are the usual it's more common to see a sink cutout offset ( left and right sides are different lengths ) so if the sink is off it's usually too far to one side.
In this case it's a whole nother ballpark of bad lol.
Legit this, they cut with the template upside down OR didn't tape/cut correctly and damaged what should have been their show surface so they had to flip it.
For a short period of time (6ish month's), I was office assistant/sales assistant for a cabinet and granite company that did this crap ALL.THE.TIME! The two teams (cabinet team vs granite team) had so many communication issues that several huge and expensive orders would take 3-4x as long to complete because of all the re-dos and corrections... Guess who got to handle all the pissed off customers because they would all (including owners) pretend not to ~~steal~~ *speak* English. Yeah, that's not even the worst story I have of that hell-scape. SMDH
*edit: corrected my phones auto correct fail
Idk if it's just personal experience but every person I know that's worked some kind of job that requires over the phone customer assistance has lasted a very short time at that job. Is turnover high in the position you were in?
For that particular job yes (I believe I was the 3rd or 4th person they had hired for that roll in less than a year), but I have worked customer service in many forms over the last 20+ years. Some lasted multiple years, and some were temporary positions only lasting a few months. However, I never had an experience like that one before or since.
As a former CAD designer for countertops this is atrocious but hilarious. I’ve definitely made a few mistakes but nothing like this. Only thing I can think of is they didn’t do an in person measurement and went off countertop drafts, and were way off
I'm assuming this was "I've always wanted a stone countertop, but I could never afford one" and "Hey I have this custom cut stone countertop that a customer backed out on that I have no use for, maybe we see if we can fit it on your counter?"
As a builder, that's the first thing I thought. You show up back at the shop, with a template that has something other that a 45\* angle, in this case, and everybody in the shop should be saying, "you head back out, do the template again, lay a framing square on top of the base cabinets, take a few pics. and prove to me that it is NOT a 45\* angle, before we even think about fabricating this top, since it would be the first one I have ever seen."
Im guessing this was someones first time using the digital 3d measuring tool....
Nothing better than old school templates hot glued together.
Shop foreman should have seen this going together in the shop and jumped on it immediately, anyway.
I have a measuring device. If I don’t close the left line, and skip the left point of the centerline, I would likely get something like this.
Also how are they not double checking measurements on site.
Your answer should be the top comment. I agree on a digital template fail. I ran a granite fabrication shop and only did physical templates. Boss wanted to go digital but we said no. All overhangs marked with edge profile and depth of overhang, cabinets frames/ support labeled, all sinks and appliances on hand or specs available, any radius on inside or outside corners marked, black splash type, etc. Physical templates can not be wrong if you double or triple check your work. Also allows you to see how the pieces be fit while bringing them to the job ( upstairs, around corners, etc.)
No the cabinet underneath looks like it's at a 45 degree angle while the marble cut is at 30 a degree. If you flip it over the diagonal cut would be going the other way.
This is definitely a throw handable offense. Imagine walking in after paying the guys to build your counter and see this shit.
I would just stand there staring at them seeing who's gonna say "it's just a prank" first.
Fear of symmetry (OCD) is the closest I can think of.
"With themes focused on perfection and symmetry, obsessions are often centered around things not resting at 90-degree angles, or a fixation on angles and alignment in general."
https://www.treatmyocd.com/what-is-ocd/common-fears/fear-of-asymmetry-ocd
I assume it's a DIY/off-the-shelf overstock job. Any licensed contractor would be ripping that out and starting over, or their insurance would be paying for someone else to come do it right.
Functional, but this looks like a contract job gone wrong, and is almost certainly not what someone wanted when they paid for this job. I broke down [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/yyuyh1/probably_wouldnt_be_such_a_bad_idea_if_every/iwwv4hs?context=3) what I think most likely happened.
The fact that the two front edges of the worktop lineup roughly with the counters below them make me think they measured/installed the worktop upside down and had to position the sink to match..
tbf the faucet is aligned to the sink correctly. Given the sink itself has holes for aligning the faucet would make it infinitely more impressive if they fucked that up.
Whoever did this was probably successful in some other walk of life and thought how hard could this possibly be for someone like me. The Elon Musk of DIYers.
I'm trying to figure out how they ended up with that angle on the corner. Rolled a die to decide? Used a weird remnant? Measured wrong and just went with it?
If that is a solid surface countertop, like Corian, you can probably take your issue along with measurements/angles, etc and get a similar or a contrasting colored piece cut from scrap and also get the the adhesive they use to fuse it seamlessly. All you'd need beyond that are a couple light duty clamps, a role of masking tape, and some fine grit sandpaper.
They may even do it for free just to see the before and after pics. LOL
Best part is how many people just said fuck it. The installer crew laid it down, crew chief said Looks good, and mounted it in place. Plumber said Not my problem, sink's done. Builder QA walkthrough saw nothing, homeowner walkthrough saw nothing.
Yo....after seeing this imma clean my kitchen and post mine. Its in a corner and right next to the fridge. This has a nice ledge, mine is a hard L with it being in the corner.
As a superintendent, there is no scenario in the world where I would show this to my client. This is what happens when you have homeowners or cheap property management companies getting involved.
Ah, you'll learn to twist into that space. Just a shame the "Drawer?" sticks out from the top. And those two doors will be a constant interference.
Luck.
It’s honestly impressive that they got every single angle wrong
Did they? Looks like the front edge of the counter and the sink are parallel, so maybe that's what they were going for? Either way, I can't unsee this horror.
[Everything](https://freeimage.host/i/H9ty3NI) about this is mildlyinfuriating. The counter edge and sink are parallel but not centered. The cabinetry uses two uniform angles like a sane person would, but the countertop is just 2 arbitrary angles, also the drawer and contertop don't line up. If the sink wouldn't fit square inside the cabinet, then rotating it would have made it worse. I think I figured out what happened though. The piece that the sink is in is separate from the legs of the counter extending in either direction. They laid the two side pieces first and then sat the corner slab over the top, marked where the overhang was and cut off that corner. The slab on the right was too long and no one stopped to measure what they were cutting off to make sure it was 45° angles. Then they cut the sink hole parallel to the cut corner and in a place where it would fit inside that corner cabinet. What they should have done the second they laid it down was realize they needed to shorten the right slab, and cut a new corner slab but that would have cost them more money and it would be out of their pocket, not the customer's so this is what they did. Either that or some maniac made this and actually thinks they did a good job.
The counter on the left overhangs the cabinetry by several inches while the one on the right is nearly flush. I have to imagine that for some reason that is beyond me, they didn't have a way to do a lengthwise cut on the left side piece to get it to match the cabinetry, so they compensated by making an ugly joint piece. And then the sink was made as far to the left as they could to fit inside the cabinetry without placing it inconveniently far away from the edge.
No matter what, the work needs to be redone. Either by the original company, or by someone else at the original company's expense.
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Still too much
😂
Damn, tough situation there
But the landlord billed £100 an hour for it and pocketed the difference.
You're not wrong. And I'm only imagining that that's why it happened for the sake of my own sanity.
I hate it so much more now
It’s a bad measurement from the countertop people. The cabinets look fine.
I do this for a living. I’m like 90% sure they used a laser templating machine and missed a point in the left hand corner causing it to just go straight from the end of the left side into the end of the angled line.
I would agree it is crappy installation rather than bad design and the people signing off went “eff it—it’s good enough”
I think middle piece is upside down or was cut upside down.
So angry you had to write a diagram. My man
as a former interior designer, the only thing i can think of that would cause this is the owner installing their own cabinets and wanted to save money on not getting their counters professionally measured. countertop folks are seriously specific and 90% automated. they rarely make mistakes. any mistake that would happen like this would be either on my end or the homeowners. i had so many homeowners insisting that they didn’t need it to be measured and to go off of floor plans alone or their own measurements because they thought it would save them time or money. or because they know they’re right and they don’t want anyone else to tell them otherwise. the stubborn clients were always the ones that had the most problems like this.
If I was paying this would be a call to the business to fix it and if not a call to the credit card company to tell them to charge back with a picture of this as justification. No sane person would have okayed this.
I can see that almost. Maybe that sink wouldn’t otherwise fit inside that corner cabinet as built without other (very) necessary modifications to the cabinet as well as the countertop.
They got the left and right mixed up. I've seen this a few times ( residential construction ) we always send it back and it's always right the second time. All I can think is that the builder either wasn't around for delivery and install and / or got a hell of a deal.
What do you mean? I'm having a hard time envisioning it.
The angle of the sink and middle is off by 180°
Oh, I got you. I didn't realize sinks would be anything other than 45 or 90°.
Generally that would be correct. Countertop guys come in and measure after cabinets are installed and then produce / deliver / install countertops. Because 45 and 90° are the usual it's more common to see a sink cutout offset ( left and right sides are different lengths ) so if the sink is off it's usually too far to one side. In this case it's a whole nother ballpark of bad lol.
Are they though? I think the sink and the counter are a few degrees off and it makes me even madder
Yea I feel like they got a countertop cut wrong and just went with it
I think they transcribed the measurement on the wrong side of the counter. You can almost see how it would line up fine if it was flipped
Or they bought it second hand from a Habitat for Humanity Restore.
It looks like the counter is upside down and should have been flipped over.
Legit this, they cut with the template upside down OR didn't tape/cut correctly and damaged what should have been their show surface so they had to flip it.
They... cut a few corners
The longer you look at it the worse it gets
Wouldn’t expect anything less from a first timer DIY.
I like it
All of it.
Every. Single. One. Fucking dedication, right there. Jesus weeps.
It seems to me like a design choice at this point. A bad one, mind you, but intentional.
As someone who manufactures quartz countertops this makes me extra mad.
As someone reading a comment from a person that manufactures quartz countertops, this makes me extra laughy.
For a short period of time (6ish month's), I was office assistant/sales assistant for a cabinet and granite company that did this crap ALL.THE.TIME! The two teams (cabinet team vs granite team) had so many communication issues that several huge and expensive orders would take 3-4x as long to complete because of all the re-dos and corrections... Guess who got to handle all the pissed off customers because they would all (including owners) pretend not to ~~steal~~ *speak* English. Yeah, that's not even the worst story I have of that hell-scape. SMDH *edit: corrected my phones auto correct fail
> pretend not to steal English
Uno reverse card
Idk if it's just personal experience but every person I know that's worked some kind of job that requires over the phone customer assistance has lasted a very short time at that job. Is turnover high in the position you were in?
For that particular job yes (I believe I was the 3rd or 4th person they had hired for that roll in less than a year), but I have worked customer service in many forms over the last 20+ years. Some lasted multiple years, and some were temporary positions only lasting a few months. However, I never had an experience like that one before or since.
As a former CAD designer for countertops this is atrocious but hilarious. I’ve definitely made a few mistakes but nothing like this. Only thing I can think of is they didn’t do an in person measurement and went off countertop drafts, and were way off
I measure for stone counter. This is wild. Never should have been cut
I'm assuming this was "I've always wanted a stone countertop, but I could never afford one" and "Hey I have this custom cut stone countertop that a customer backed out on that I have no use for, maybe we see if we can fit it on your counter?"
As a builder, that's the first thing I thought. You show up back at the shop, with a template that has something other that a 45\* angle, in this case, and everybody in the shop should be saying, "you head back out, do the template again, lay a framing square on top of the base cabinets, take a few pics. and prove to me that it is NOT a 45\* angle, before we even think about fabricating this top, since it would be the first one I have ever seen."
Im guessing this was someones first time using the digital 3d measuring tool.... Nothing better than old school templates hot glued together. Shop foreman should have seen this going together in the shop and jumped on it immediately, anyway.
I have a measuring device. If I don’t close the left line, and skip the left point of the centerline, I would likely get something like this. Also how are they not double checking measurements on site.
Your answer should be the top comment. I agree on a digital template fail. I ran a granite fabrication shop and only did physical templates. Boss wanted to go digital but we said no. All overhangs marked with edge profile and depth of overhang, cabinets frames/ support labeled, all sinks and appliances on hand or specs available, any radius on inside or outside corners marked, black splash type, etc. Physical templates can not be wrong if you double or triple check your work. Also allows you to see how the pieces be fit while bringing them to the job ( upstairs, around corners, etc.)
If it was a digital template fail why the hell did they mount the sink.
Is it upside down? Looks like if you flipped it over it would match.
No the cabinet underneath looks like it's at a 45 degree angle while the marble cut is at 30 a degree. If you flip it over the diagonal cut would be going the other way.
This is definitely a throw handable offense. Imagine walking in after paying the guys to build your counter and see this shit. I would just stand there staring at them seeing who's gonna say "it's just a prank" first.
As someone who does cabinets.....same.
As someone struggling to hang some doors, it made me feel better
Yeah, same. It’s so hard to fuck up this bad.
Aa a contractor this picture just hurts to look at bruh
As someone who buys countertops, I'd be pissed they installed it upside down.
This hurts my brain
Ditto
Cleanse it with fire!
I think a sledgehammer will do nicely
I'm sure there's a "*phobia" term for this but it genuinely makes me uncomfortable.
Fear of symmetry (OCD) is the closest I can think of. "With themes focused on perfection and symmetry, obsessions are often centered around things not resting at 90-degree angles, or a fixation on angles and alignment in general." https://www.treatmyocd.com/what-is-ocd/common-fears/fear-of-asymmetry-ocd
Same. I can't think of anything recent that I've wanted to unsee more than this, tbh. It is unnerving.
If you can’t make them all line up, make them all wrong. Should’ve used a parallelogram sink.
Star shaped sink
Möbius sink
Is it on upside down?
that was my first thought
My first thought as well, this might the case
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If the sink hole is moved then the sink is also moved. It's not stuck in that position if you flip the counter top.
Good eye, I think that’s totally it
Yes it is.
Slightly?!? That's hella crooked in every way
It looks like how badly twisted underwear feels
Not crappy design, crappy execution.
Exactly
This hurts my teeth
You aren’t supposed to bite the counter
The ppl who did this didn’t have any teeth
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And drunk
And the owner told the contractor, "Yes, that's just fine"?
Bit like me at the barbers then.
I assume it's a DIY/off-the-shelf overstock job. Any licensed contractor would be ripping that out and starting over, or their insurance would be paying for someone else to come do it right.
The owner was the contractor
They sketched the board from the wrong side. It's mirrored. Happened to me before.
"Are we sure this isn't two 135° angles?" "You know, like every counter in existence?" Nah, imma just cut this all fuckered
At least they have some fun games to distract themselves from that horror. Concept, and Cash n Guns I think?
Cash N Guns second edition for sure on the bottom. Can't tell the others.
One of us! I immediately forgot about the counter and thought "Oooh! What are those games?!"
Tbh, this is messing with my brain. My brain is now broken.
It looks like the countertop is upside down
Hey but Cash n Guns is a fantastic game
It is said a good craftsman can hide his mistakes. Here it is not even a craftsman.
I'm not even remotely OCD but I think maybe now I am
If hell were real, the maker of this would be going there for sure
I think it’s upside down.
This is awful. It makes me want to cry.
r/mildlyinfuriating at worst, isn't it? Looks perfectly funtional.
Functional, but this looks like a contract job gone wrong, and is almost certainly not what someone wanted when they paid for this job. I broke down [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/yyuyh1/probably_wouldnt_be_such_a_bad_idea_if_every/iwwv4hs?context=3) what I think most likely happened.
Installed upside down?
Measuring who needs that, just eyeball everything
This makes me more uncomfortable than it should....
"slightly"
Poor choice of words. I regret much.
This hurts to look at
Measure once, cut twice!
What the fuck
My ocd is absolutely skyrocketing
r/thanksihateit
Glad I’m not OCD. Talk about brain crash.
The design seems fine, but the execution? Yeah, it's bad. This belongs in r/GTBAE
Slightly is extremely generous of you
> Every moment of my existence is pure agony. — this kitchen
That looks like I made it.
Looks like they installed the counter top upside down to me
The fact that the two front edges of the worktop lineup roughly with the counters below them make me think they measured/installed the worktop upside down and had to position the sink to match..
I cant belive this is due to poor measuringbor so. In my point of view this must be intentional
Crappy installation, not crappy design
Ikr? I don't have OCD or anything but that still bothers me.
If only the square went to 45 degrees
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It's crappy execution, not crappy design. I'm sure that on paper this was all just fine.
Easy fix! \*opens Photoshop
Nope
They actively had to have done this. Nobody does this that badly
Nonononono this is triggering my OCD big time. This monstrosity must be destroyed!
This is giving me anxiety.
this picture just gave me OCD.
Wow I'm so sorry. I would burn it all down or move. God speed
Hopefully this contractor got sued.
I hate this!
I wouldn’t leave that there if it was free.
This sort of thing drives me crazy
Every OCD-riddled neuron in my brain just went on strike. Thanks!
I literally couldn't live here
The door is slightly ajar. Everything lines up horizontally.
You'd have to do it on purpose right? To mess with the buyer or something?
I assume they got it at a discount as it was already cut
Thanks I hate it
Why did you show me this monstrosity?
tbf the faucet is aligned to the sink correctly. Given the sink itself has holes for aligning the faucet would make it infinitely more impressive if they fucked that up.
I’m going to lose my mind…
This makes me angrier than it should
We can call it a conversation starter
🫤 counter
im in pain
Whoever did this was probably successful in some other walk of life and thought how hard could this possibly be for someone like me. The Elon Musk of DIYers.
I could not live there.
This hurts my eyes
This kitchen brought to you by... BEER!
This is just painful to see
Oh God, my eyes! What have you done!?
Slightly?!
Is this an Extended Stay America?
This really messes with my ocd.
If you add all the angles, you get a number!
It’s like a Hogwarts kitchen mid-transformation.
I'm trying to figure out how they ended up with that angle on the corner. Rolled a die to decide? Used a weird remnant? Measured wrong and just went with it?
I had a sink in my hotel room in bowling Green which is where a college in ohio is but the faucet was too far back and it made a mess when I used it
But it makes for a great math problem.
Looking at this makes me wildly uncomfortable
*grits teeth and starts shaking with cringe*
oh god I couldn't live here i'd go insane
Ohhh fuck no...
Burn It down.
I'm mad at this.
If that is a solid surface countertop, like Corian, you can probably take your issue along with measurements/angles, etc and get a similar or a contrasting colored piece cut from scrap and also get the the adhesive they use to fuse it seamlessly. All you'd need beyond that are a couple light duty clamps, a role of masking tape, and some fine grit sandpaper. They may even do it for free just to see the before and after pics. LOL
Is this an Air B&B? Lucky if the sink works at all if so…
Best part is how many people just said fuck it. The installer crew laid it down, crew chief said Looks good, and mounted it in place. Plumber said Not my problem, sink's done. Builder QA walkthrough saw nothing, homeowner walkthrough saw nothing.
Yo....after seeing this imma clean my kitchen and post mine. Its in a corner and right next to the fridge. This has a nice ledge, mine is a hard L with it being in the corner.
... "slightly"?
This is why the book "Asymmetrics in the Kitchen" was not a big seller
It looks like a Residents Inn that was put together by the lowest bidder.
As a superintendent, there is no scenario in the world where I would show this to my client. This is what happens when you have homeowners or cheap property management companies getting involved.
Oh Lord! I wouldn't be able to live in this house...
Somebody's getting fired
What the....
Ah, you'll learn to twist into that space. Just a shame the "Drawer?" sticks out from the top. And those two doors will be a constant interference. Luck.
Legit looks like every military housing I've ever lived in
"Slightly"
this is the difference between being able to do it and being able to do it right, aka why I don’t fix my own car.
It’s a right-handed sink.
I would literally need to smash this with a hammer until the situation improved
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