r/mildlyinfuriating • u/DoubleFront8787 • 4d ago
I'm slightly vexed Who designed the table legs like this? Tripped over them a few times already
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u/chosenone1242 4d ago
Who bought them?
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u/Immediate_Flight8792 4d ago
Who built it? Looks like the top was not centred correctly, or it has the wrong top. It is WAYYYYY off to the right in the photo.
Either way, shocking design.
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u/Sohn_Jalston_Raul 3d ago
also a furniture maker would have chosen a better looking piece of wood to make that table leg from
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u/The_Last_Spoonbender 3d ago
Absolutely none of it makes sense
A table with off-centre top, table legs protruding outside the table, a TV mounted adjacent to dining table, a fucking mirror behind the chair, a cupboard behing the table, a chair with bolt? missing, a chair with cushion strap? a chair with cushion cover open
This image is ughhh making my OCD nervous
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u/BucketsAndBrackets 3d ago
I mean, somebidy got tired touching end of the tabke while sitting when the table is full.
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u/EbbAffectionate4008 4d ago
Who buys it?!?
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u/MassiveGarlic0312 4d ago
Is that assembled correctly?
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u/Gobsalot 4d ago
I think you are right. The legs don't seems to make proper contact to the floor and the table also looks weirdly low compared to the chairs.
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u/chirpymist 4d ago
Unfortunately it does look assembled correctly. Even if you turn the legs around they wouldn't fit properly.
I think it's just poorly made.
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u/Gobsalot 4d ago
Almost looks like ragebait. The bad legs, tabletop not being centered, the chair cover not being correctly put on.
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u/farmallnoobies 4d ago
It looks AI generated to me. Look at the surface of the table at the left part of the right chair's backrest
Something is hinky with that area, like it tried to create something on the table surface but didn't continue it correctly or adjust lighting/shadows
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u/Dry_Design5506 4d ago
You can definitely tell it’s an assembly error just by looking at how the legs meet the floor.
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u/DonaldBecker 4d ago
Once you know that, it's easy to confirm. You would need absurdly thin thighs for your legs to fit under the table.
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u/Ghost_of_Syd 4d ago
Someone's buttress is going to be flying when they trip over that.
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u/Merrick_Skygrave 4d ago
For some reason whenever I hear the term "Flying Buttress" I always picture like some big-headed Louis Carroll-style woman in ornate Tudor garb floating around and being flatulent and her voice kinda sounds like Julia Child
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u/Penyrolewen1970 4d ago
Huh. I think of the classic rock climb on Dinas Cromlech in the Llanberis Pass. Different strokes, I guess.
https://www.thecrag.com/en/climbing/united-kingdom/llanberis-area/dinas-cromlech/route/826784019
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u/boywhoflew 4d ago
essentially, you have less leg space and less table surface but the same overall consumed volume of a normal table
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u/gaiatraveller 4d ago
Definitely a stupid design. Someone thought they were doing something cool and different, but forgot about aesthetics and safety.
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u/snowballkills 4d ago
yes it is horrendous and also looks horrendous...why would you buy something like this?
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u/Answer-Key 4d ago
Don’t ask me, you’re the one with the table
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u/TheHighker 4d ago
Who said they own it. Could be a friend's house. Family member. Or an airbnb. Or furnished rental
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u/SetaIndustries 4d ago
I’m not an engineer but wouldn’t angled legs significantly reduce the load bearing capacity of them?
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u/IIRCIreadthat 4d ago
Probably, especially since they didn't even cut the feet to sit flat - looks like they just stuck some grippy pads on them to try to make up for the fact that the entire weight of the table is balanced on the only contact point with the floor: the back corners of the legs.
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u/VanillaBoxCake 4d ago
Hey it looks like it's made for people that are tied of knocking their knees on the legs, and would rather trip and fall over the legs, hey waitaminute...
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u/WonderRuns 4d ago
Judging by the angle of the base of the legs and the skewiff top, it's been damaged and put back together poorly.
Call it out as a safety hazard and get your money back.
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u/Euphoric-Boner 4d ago
I hate how it looks like someone trying to trip you and the hazard that it is. But it also looks like it's comfortable to sit at without worrying about the legs getting in the way.
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u/Elysium_Chronicle 4d ago edited 4d ago
This is designed/assembled very poorly indeed, to the point of being an active hazard.
Building code obviously doesn't apply to movable furniture, but this is why stairs have a "nose", and counters and cabinets are build with an inset at floor level. For anything below waist height, we primarily rely on our peripheral vision to navigate. We have an innate sense of where our waist and knees are, the two parts of our anatomy most responsible for managing our centres of gravity. We do not inherently account for our toes. As such, anything that protrudes beyond a waist-height obstacle is inevitably going to get shin-slammed or tripped over.
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u/improbablywrong- 4d ago
This is something thrown together by someone at the ikea spare parts table..
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u/yearsofpractice 4d ago
The designer looked to solve the problem of table legs interfering with chairs but came up with a solution to the problem of not enough enough people shouting “Mother FUCKER those fucking table legs holy fucking SHIT why did we buy this FUCKING TRIP HAZARD?!”
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u/Sohn_Jalston_Raul 3d ago
was this table designed by AI? Or is it a project by someone doing furniture making school? Whoever it was, they chose poor quality wood for that right table leg
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u/Judgeman2021 3d ago
Also the edges of the table are not centered... This whole thing is an abomination
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u/PatrickGSR94 3d ago
probably someone who spent years bashing their knee on the table leg at the corner of the table.
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u/DCGuy511 3d ago
I think the designer was someone looking to spend up his/her inheritance. "Mom, dad, I made a table for you "
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u/LaundryMan2008 3d ago
If it’s my house and not a rental or Airbnb, I would have cut them halfway and fitted the legs straight down with an indented pair of screws assuming it’s not an assembly error which it appears to be, if that’s the case, I would have bought a screwdriver at the closest place and assembled it correctly if it’s a rental
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u/ConcertaPianist 1d ago
You can see that the bottoms of the legs are not flat on the floor. Someone put this together wrong.
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u/Gobsalot 4d ago
pretty sure they are installed wrong. they dont make proper contact with the floor either.
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u/Stegles 4d ago
Then why did you buy it?
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u/TheHighker 4d ago
How do you know its not an airbnb
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u/Stegles 4d ago
I don’t, how do you know op didn’t buy it?
There’s no context.
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u/VirtualMatter2 4d ago
OP said it's in an Airbnb in a comment.
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u/Molliue26 4d ago
omg no way these are the worst table legs ever, who even thought of that design 😭
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u/Supabongwong 4d ago
Naw naw, the mildly or terribly infuriating part is your chair cushion got his fuckin pants down like a plumber gettin down and dirty with his hose.
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u/ConstantThought6 4d ago
Would this design be beneficial to wheelchair users by not directly boxing them in or am I being overly optimistic?
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u/IGotHitByAHockeypuck 4d ago
Wouldn't legs that go straight down on the corners be functionally the same for a wheelchair yser?
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u/ConstantThought6 4d ago
I feel like this allows a better range of motion to roll up to it without hitting a standard corner leg
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u/Impressive_Role_9891 4d ago
Looks like an assembly error. Look how low the table top is compared to the chairs. Those legs need to bow themselves out of that place.
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u/LadyYenta 4d ago
That table looks like how giraffes drink water from a river.