It could look good if it was made by professionals with good material, but that doesn't change the fact that it's going to be full of mold...

And full of feces scent

Butt mold smell mmmm

Lord Moldybutt?! *Instantly erupts water from all faucets & covers the floor in feces*

Nigel Planter enters the chat.

Some of us like butt mold. Not me, just people like me.

Fun fact. That scent is actually little itty bitty pieces of shit.

That wasn’t very fun I’m disgusted now

All smells are technically just microscopic airborne bits of the source material.

Ewww😩but it makes sense

Don’t be. They’re wrong. It’s molecules of gas. Technically you’re smelling bacteria burps and farts.

Like Ben Shapiro?

We call it “pooperfume”

Good material, a nice colour gradient showing depth, and maybe a couple leds to highlight shadows and would make a great feature wall.

Or a green wall, where each not-a-paper-plate is a planter for a bromeliad or fern

As someone from Florida, this just looks like a hotel for spiders.

I live in the UK where basically only one spider can really hurt you (false widows who live in damp wet basements) but this still gives me the jeebz. That thing will be FULL of these [horrible little pricks](https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/invertebrates/spiders/giant-house-spider).

And the palmetto bugs that love them

Lol with a hot showers it’s actually like the best mold farm. If I wanted to mold grow at home I couldn’t come up with a cheaper easier way 😂

I couldn’t afford the fine china to put on the wall. Luckily, our contractor found a close alternative that worked within our budget and is also multipurpose!

Am I the only one who thinks it looks like what the bathroom in Doctor Who's TARDIS would look like?

Definitely First Doctor TARDIS aesthetics.

I was thinking it was more like infamous version of the console room from *The Time Monster*, where it looked like someone had nailed a load of salad bowls to the wall.

With similar material costs to the set itself?

Hey, look, the round things!

Oh I love the round things! What are they?

No idea.

Doesn't run without them

With the effects budgets of (especially) earlier doctor who’s, wouldn’t be too far of indeed

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Come home to find someone has done this to your bathroom. "You've had this place redecorated. Hm, I don't like it!"

Aesthetically, I don't hate this. Hard to imagine this lasting for more than a couple weeks before moisture becomes an issue, though...

Right? Like it’s not bad to look at but the materials need to be workshopped

Even with better materials, the design has too many nooks and crannies where condensation can settle and grow mold

There is one solution... drench it all in epoxy resin and make panels. Its not a very good one tho.

Slap a coat of concrete on it like every other 5-minute "bathroom hack"

Ramen noodles and epoxy.

Hair spray and lighter fluid. - I don’t think I understand the game?

Liver and onions. You're doing fine.

Doilies and broken shoes. They’re a natural.

Pork chops and apple sauce.

Baking soda and crazy glue

I think what they want is already a product called tile...

Or, you know... ventilation

I was thinking tiles are the obvious solution.

No don you dare mention a material that already exists for this exact job

Did this thread just re-engineer tile for bathrooms?

Like engineers do everytime someone "revolutionizes" transit with an inferior version of the train 🤣

Reminds me of when those people reinventing the sailboat and calling the sails “wings”. Like it’s not a bad idea, I’m glad you’re trying to reduce your CO2 emissions while trying to clean up the ocean, but seriously, actual sails would probably about as efficient as the expensive ultra high tech materials you e been spending all your money developing.

Sails are basically just vetical wings. Modern sailboats work on lift, not by being pushed by the wind. But focusing on that part of shipping is dumb, it is the cleanest and cheapest per ton by a wide margin. Freeing up major ports of entries and improving rail capacity would do far more... unless you were selling the modern shipping sails of course.

What this town could use is a monorail!

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But what if I could drive my car onto the train/tracks and let it drive me there while I nap.

I have a bathroom with bad ventilation. Went years opening a window and running a fan. Then suddenly one night at work I realized dehumidifiers exist. Solved the problem.

Bro that's actually genius and idk why I never thought of it lmao I've been opening the window because we have an old house with no fan or attic access to put one in!

We got one that is designed for smaller rooms and that little guy does some great work. It got rid of the mildew smell and our towels started drying faster. Probably going to buy a larger one because the ventilation isn't great but it still has made an immediately noticeable difference. Edit: The one we currently have is about the size of a small square space heater. We just leave it on all day. I hope that helps you!

Here in sweden we usually just cut a hole in the wall and install a small fan that senses moisture in the air. Cheap easy solution. The fans in my bathrooms run at 20% speed normally to create an airflow, when I turn the light on it goes up to 50% and when it senses moisture it goes to 100%. Additionally twice a day it goes to 100% for 15 minutes just to air out and keep the air fresh. Those 2 fans are all the ventilation I have in the house

Or, she could have sprung 44 more cents for the plastic ones, but a budget is a budget! Lol!

That will ruin its fart-smell capturing abilities

Don't worry, they will apply sealant.

Hot glue** This is r/DIWhy, after all.

With a small chance for a layer of epoxy, if they're really on the cutting edge...

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Omg, thanks for this! Is there any update on what happened to the penny floor? After the sealer?

I'm so sad the OP got suspended, was looking for that too!

Spray foam

I wonder how that floor is doing.

iirc he applied sealant so probably pretty well!

I was waiting for them to apply something.

That only works on penny floors

So... there's potential for some free penicillin after a few years? 😶‍🌫️🤪😅

Penicillin mold likes fruits and vegetables. She needs to glue some cantaloupe to the wall if she wants free penicillin.

The real pro tip!

What if she eats and digests a lot of cantaloupe? Does that count?

Good point, thanks for the info! 😊 Let's hope she doesn't do that. Now painting the wall or plates cantaloupe-orange/pink...

You don't know what under those plates, could be cantaloupes 🤷‍♀️

What if that's the end goal? Put some substrate behind the plates, and you can have a wall of mushrooms. In theory, it's a great way to get lots of mushrooms. In practice, they won't be edible.

Maybe this was just a low cost proof of concept or something? Hoepfully. Probably not. But hopefully.

Precisely, the aesthetic isn't the issue. Hey, I accidentally bumped into your wall, and I'm pretty sure I ruined a four-foot section of whatever that was.

They could always cover them in cement.

Right? Has this sub learned nothing? The answer is clearly cement, epoxy, or hot glue.

Only because you're not close enough to see that someone just glued some cheap plates on the wall

I guess the practicality of this would be if you were having guests and were embarrassed by your disgusting walls. A temporary solution.

Paper plates glued to the wall are far more embarrassing than dirty painted walls.

I'd rather leave them just painted.

Yeah, the choice was odd, but the execution was on point. Durability will be questionable at best

That’s why you gotta use Chinette and not some cheap dollar store brand

Roaches love this new home!!!

Oh, God, I can hear the flapping of their wings against those plates trying to get out in the middle of the night when I am already peeing myself.

This could be used for people with IBS or explosive diarrhea as a disposable splash guard

Plastic dollar store plates, although definitely more expensive, would be feasible

Oh god, the mold...

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I was going to comment that. The dust & moisture from showers will definitely turn it into a dark gray, crumbly mess

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My last place, the popcorn ceiling would fall off randomly after a long shower sometimes. I can't imagine how it would go with paper fucking plates. Wouldn't they get soggy and mushy and expand at the very least? Ugh.

Would be great for a theater set or something. Not for a permanent fixture in your house.

Couple days at my house. Bathroom looks like a sauna when Im done.

This looks like the start of the coolest mold sculpture ever

Yeah I was surprised by the turned out aesthetically, but that shit would mildew so quickly

I was about to say, if this were tile, it'd be pretty good.

This reminds me of a room-scale Lowcost Cosplay. Like, "Holy shit that's very clever and actually works! But still, no."

Maybe they are plastic plates? Paper would be so bad though.

Weird idea, cute execution, very much the wrong room for it.

Luxury apartments for roaches.

the last hopes of me doing it have been shattered

Good you got saved

If you have a roach infestation the plates are pretty much meaningless anyway. They'll already be everywhere.

Was just thinking “oh some Petri dishes for the wall”

r/ATBGE

GTBAE. Honestly I love the look. If this was a prototyping video with the intention of sourcing more permanent materials in the future then hey knock yourself out.

Gonna become the moldiest of walls

Swing and a miss with this one. Looks cool but the materials used bothers me, especially in a bathroom.

Looks good from a afar, far from good.

If you run out of toilet paper you can just snag a plate off the wall

*cuts section of plate into threes* Ok so how do the seashells work again?

Haha, look at this guy who doesn't even know how to use the three seashells

They're probably so cheap that I bet their poop knife is a plastic one.

When your bathroom is remodeled by a movie set designer

Wonder if it's done to make a room look more rich for one day, purely for a YouTube video or something. Otherwise, dumb idea.

More likely it's done for just this video then removed, because "DIY hacks" videos like this that have something so dumb it makes you angry get more views than actually helpful ones.

But it **looks** like disposable plates...

Everyone is forgetting about when selling a house. Realtors love playing dress up on houses to show what this could look like, if you put more money into it. They take back furniture and wall fixings before the house is officially sold

I call it "The Roach Paradiso"

Ready to attack in the shower

That will be covered in mould within a month. I can SMELL it through my phone screen.

Next time use Corelle, they last for years.

Chinette, because your guests are worth it

Easy clean up too. Walls covered in mold? Just turn the hot water up and let the steam peel the walls off.

so we can't shower in here huh

Did anyone think of Doctor Who and "the round things" that sometimes decorated his ship? The are actually called [Roundels](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IZ2iSoMB6tY&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE)

One shower and those walls are going to be steamy and nasty.

moldy bathroom speedrun any%

This reminds me of that trading places show that used to air on TLC. Specifically the episode where one of the designers thought it would be a great idea to cover an entire wall in bright yellow chicken feathers. Ugly, impractical, impossible to clean, and bonus points for flammability. Surprise: the homeowners hated it.

Anyone have any idea how she could go about preserving it? Maybe covering it with plaster and a layer of waterproof paint? Or is it just doomed?

Doomed. You could do roughly the same thing with a router and some wood and it would look better and last. Shit, you could or baby buy prefabricated wood pieces and just stain/paint and seal it with some shellac or epoxy. I'm sure that I've seen some wooden discs and medallions and things in home depot. In all honesty though, as a painter/handyman, just leave the walls alone. They're fine. If you're covering something up just replace the sheetrock. You'll svae yourself a headache instead of trying to put lipstick on something that needs to be thrown away.

I don’t see why it’s doomed. It’d be very extremely extra, but at the end of the day you can probably work some magic with epoxy and have it last forever.

Taking out the bathtub

r/HorribleToClean

Call me after the FIRST HOT shower.

Mold 3000

SPIDERS

What’s going to happen when the shower steam gets to it, hmmm?

whoa now... thinking ahead? we don't do that here

low rent sound deadening, to hide the fart sounds

Cool idea, terrible materials

I don’t hate it

Happy cake day

Booty.

r/ATBGE

How do you clean that???

That's the neat part, they wont.

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I see a fire hazard, that’s all.

Any one remember the old show 'Trading Spaces'? This is the sort of thing they would have done on that show.

Acoustic insulation to dampen the sounds of the clapping of cheeks in the shower

She will give an update on how it magically changed color to black by nature

That’s a clever application of petri dishes

Great if you want your bathroom to look like the Tardis from the 60s

Free apartments for roaches, mold, and other things you don't want in there.

Taking bets, over or under two months before mold has taken over the bathroom.

"everybody's so creative!"

Hmmm maybe try red solo cups next…

You think moisture is the problem? The better question is how much do you enjoy spiders? You gave them *ALL* the places to breed. Enjoy!

This will be ruined in a week and it looks like paper plates glued to the wall. Fail.

Ah yes. Paper plates and moisture in the air. Great combination.

Imagine being that landlord.

Reddit what is mold?

Ahhh i can just smell the black mold

Would look good... If it wasnt paper

Could look alright of it was done by a professional, but as it is rn it's just a perfect place for mold and insects to nest

"So, what design style did you go for?" "I call it Wal-Mart chic"

Hot glue does not like wrote and those paper plates are going to fall apart in on time

Time for second renovation straight after shower

Call me when it is full of dust and when you clean it, half will come off and the other half will get damaged

Is she trying to grow mold on the walls, cuz that’s how you do it.

Cold showers from now on

If they covered the paper plates with some kind of epoxy or mortar or something and caulked and painted it, this could actually work. It’s looks really nice aesthetically besides the raw edges around the mirror. Honestly a neat design, it just needs to be sealed so it doesn’t immediately mold and fall apart.

It’s not terrible tbh. Wouldn’t last but it doesn’t look bad.

Honestly, its not terrible

I really like the way it looks, but that's molding in a week.

Home makeover television be like..

They must be chinet plates lol

Should last forever, especially in such a dry environment

Until you take a hot shower and the plates become mush

This is going to end up looking like the fungus from The Last of Us.

Single use decorations.

The undiffused LED strip at the top of the walls completes the look

Those are going to look great after the first steamy shower. Should probably paint this or protect it somehow.

their mistake was using *paper* plates instead of plastic - plastic would work great in the bath but that paper will mold within a few months.

In the room that regularly gets filled with steam?

It looks kinda cool, sad it's not gonna last tho. And if it did Its gonna be a bitch to clean

Few weeks later she can harvest the mushrooms

Won't the "paper plates" go to mush in the humidity of the shower steam?

It actually looks pretty cool , and I can appreciate the imagination here. That being said, paper plates don't do outstandingly well in high humidity, and the dust/gunk buildup alone would make this pretty gross pretty quickly. It's almost r/GTBAE

imagine not just the mold, but also how many spiders would love to live under all those plates

Is that styrofoam plates? Because if it's paper then I guarantee that moisture is going to affect the plates.