Crap At My Parents' House is a hilarious blog that, as you may have inferred from the title, documents readers' submissions of random crap they find at their parents' houses. Joel Dovev just created a new hardcover book with 70% more crap to peruse if you enjoy learning that your parents are perverts with really bad taste.
There is no "good design" here, no redeeming qualities to discuss. Each of these images takes us to a dark place where parents' attempts at decorating their spaces fail miserably. The only thing we can do is laugh along with all of the other children of parents who keep a lot of crap at their houses.
Personally, I think the voluptuous bronze statue in the yard would have gotten me ridiculed the most as a kid. What is your most embarrassing piece of parental crap?
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The room full of dolls is absolutely horrifying! It belongs on an episode of hoarders. Either that or a horror movie entitled The Room Full of Dolls.
oh my god.. the dolls. It should be on Hoarders except it looks fairly "clean". Reminds me of a "house tour" I went on once. One house the woman said she "worked for Disney". who knew she meant she worked at a disney store! The whole house looked like that doll room only with disney stuffed animals. What a joke.
I don't see that the first is much worse than a vinyl decal headboard. The rest, though, are inarguably pretty awful. Bonus awkward points go to the cross-eyed owl painted on what appears to be a turkey feather.
Yeah, I think it is funny we're all giggling at the painted-on headboard, but we swoon whenever someone draws one on their wall in chalk. Yes, this one is dated, but a close cousin of the current ones.
I kind of like that nose thing, though.
I totally hate "stuff" painted directly on walls... but I have to admit, the work and talent of the painter in the headboard thing... is absolutely beautiful!!!!
I don't know why, but I hate tissue-face significantly more than any of the others. Gross.
Those dolls are freaky. How do you even walk in that room??? I guess you don't.
My mom's basement if full of knick nacks, sports Memorabilia, collections of golf balls, pint glasses.... you name it, literally filling up all of the walls down there. I get anxiety just being in there. It is completely opposite of the clean lines and minimalism that I like.
I actually dig the painted headboard. It's a little Raggedy Ann, but I like it.
Regarding the horror of the doll room, when my great aunt died and we were packing up her house we deliberately put all of the dolls in one room just so we could document the sheer horror. I hope thats what happened in that room as well
Hahaa! Well my parents' house doesn't have as many 'decor sins', but my Dad does own a Robo-Cut. He actually uses it regularly to cut his hair! He wins the prize for owning strange tv infomercial products.
Hilarious! Sadly I have no pics of my parent's crap. The only things that really stand out to me are the busts of a bullfighter & a Senorita, and a large figure of a fighting bull. Everything else I LOVED and most of it I have in my own now now!
After all I've seen on Rate My Space, this doesn't surprise me.
My dad's crap is significantly worse than my mom's crap (divorced). On display in one of his living room bookshelves are: a formerly-functional "Zack Morris" style cellular phone, several healthcare administration procedure manual binders, a deflated football signed by the Dallas Cowboys, a few knick-knacks from my grandparents' home and an incense burner shaped like a log cabin. Dazzling.
My mom has some pretty awful "country chic" items that are still collecting dust from the 90s, but overall she's gotten a lot better.
This site makes me thankful for my mom's good taste and my dad's willingness to stay out of decorating.
Neither of my parents really have any weird crap in their homes. My mom really loves hazy paintings of deer and waterfalls with Bible quotes underneath them, which is the weirdest that it gets. My stepmom has a LOT of stuff, but none of it is that weird, really. Maybe this is why I kind of appreciate those things - the owl painted on a turkey feather, the tissue box man - they're so funny!
Oh! But my boyfriend's dad has a lot of geeky prints of nude women. Funny when he's not standing next to you, uncomfortable when he is.
http://crapatmyparentshouse.com/post/7084568153/hes-not-sleeping-hes-in-a-medically-induced
paint it black, glue on some picture frames and voila, cool stuff! :P
When I was a kid, my friend's dad owned a company that sold and rented pinball machines and video games to local businesses.
I guess that's why the walls in their home's basement were covered in wallpaper featuring photos of naked women draped over pinball machines.
I like the bronze...
Personally, I think the voluptuous bronze statue in the yard would have gotten me ridiculed the most as a kid.
Only by the girls. The boys would have been dropping by for a visit all the time ;-)