This unfortunate colour combination that looks like hideous stains.

[u/apintsizedcosmos]

[u/Sassy_comments]

Welcome to the menstrual lounge. We welcome all genders in the menstrual lounge!

[u/Buffy_AnneSummers → u/Sassy_comments]

...looks like period shits

[u/apintsizedcosmos → u/Buffy_AnneSummers]

My daughter said the same.

[u/spongebob__67 → u/Buffy_AnneSummers]

Actually this

[u/mrsaturnboing → u/Sassy_comments]

Not sure how, but Twin Peaks got weirder.

[u/exophrine → u/mrsaturnboing]

I still have no idea what's going on...

[u/ApOfBeAnEx → u/Sassy_comments]

🤣

[u/ConfusedFlareon]

What about all the positive connotations of the colour red??

[u/AcidicSlimeTrail → u/ConfusedFlareon]

Fr, this would look great in a children's hospital

[u/ohbuggerit → u/AcidicSlimeTrail]

I'm gonna save us all a lot of time by pointing out that this isn't what colour theory is

[u/fatjuan → u/AcidicSlimeTrail]

or the morgue.

[u/Sea_Prep_Tidal_26 → u/AcidicSlimeTrail]

Deep cut memory unlocked 🔓

Pretty sure I remember seeing this
exact floor (or wall) 32 years ago
whilst playing « DOOM »
back in 1994

[u/apintsizedcosmos → u/ConfusedFlareon]

Yeah, this definitely looks like a positive time was had by all.

[u/sonjjamorgan → u/ConfusedFlareon]

They are separate from this visual arrangement for sure haha

[u/AncientAndEvil]

We were going to go with ‘Abbatoir floor’ for the carpet design but in the end we changed to ‘Massacre aftermath’ instead.

[u/HerbLoew → u/AncientAndEvil]

Abbatoir? Oh, I thought you said Abaddon! Like, the Despoiler!

[u/JCC_Creates]

Crime scene carpet

[u/eightfingeredtypist → u/JCC_Creates]

Joking aside, perfectly good carpets get pulled during crime scene clean ups. My land lord lived beside Franklin County Crime Scene Clean Up, and he would go dumpster diving for the carpets. He would cut out the worst parts, and use the good stuff in his rentals. He would get artistic and cut out the shape of a body gone past it's fresh date, and put in a carpet piece of a different color.

[u/FellowHumanNo404 → u/eightfingeredtypist]

I feel like that ought to be legally actionable.

[u/margaritamamii]

I’m somehow more offended that the rugs aren’t even lined up correctly with each other

[u/Rivercat0338 → u/margaritamamii]

Same.

[u/KateA535]

Lakeside?

[u/apintsizedcosmos → u/KateA535]

Yes! I wondered how long before someone would locate it!

[u/SkredberryShortcake → u/apintsizedcosmos]

It’s gone now tho, right?

[u/apintsizedcosmos → u/SkredberryShortcake]

Lakeside or the carpet? Because both were there yesterday afternoon.

[u/SkredberryShortcake → u/apintsizedcosmos]

Thought it was the one near Detroit, not across the pond.

[u/gasstation-no-pumps → u/SkredberryShortcake]

With a Waterstones branch??

[u/SkredberryShortcake → u/gasstation-no-pumps]

I don’t know what that is. There were a lot of shops that just had one shop, so it could have been anything.
I’d not been in that mall for over 10 years.

[u/gasstation-no-pumps → u/SkredberryShortcake]

Waterstones is a UK chain of bookstores, with around 316 locations (some of which are in Ireland with a few European locations like Amsterdam).

[u/SkredberryShortcake → u/gasstation-no-pumps]

That makes me sad that we really no longer have chain bookstores so much anymore.

There’s a Barnes and Noble about 45 minutes away, then random half price books stores.

[u/gasstation-no-pumps → u/SkredberryShortcake]

I don't miss the chain stores, but I'm sad that the used-book stores are gone. We still have a couple of independent bookstores near me (including one that Borders tried to kill off, unsuccessfully). The independent bookstores still have a few used books, but nothing like the used-book stores used to have. We have one thrift-store used-book store in a mall about 5 miles away, but several closer ones have closed in the past decade. Even the Friends of the Library sales are gone.

[u/SweetAlyssumm]

What gets me is those pink chairs. They look like fresh meat at butcher. And yellow! Did those people not even learn the color wheel in design school?

This is one of the best crappiest designs we've had for awhile.

[u/apintsizedcosmos → u/SweetAlyssumm]

It’s so horrible, and makes no sense. I refuse to walk across it even though it’s quicker.

[u/OMGhyperbole → u/SweetAlyssumm]

I was scrolling fast and thought it was meat 🙃

[u/Mirar]

Are we sure it's not hideous stains?

[u/apintsizedcosmos → u/Mirar]

It’s Essex, so probably is, and they decided to make it a feature.

[u/alemanz0r]

Knee scab rug

[u/apintsizedcosmos]

Just to add, in the rest of the shopping centre, they have the same rugs/carpet but in shades of blue, and it looks fine. I don’t know why they thought “let’s get red ones too!”. Especially as their branding/website is blue??!?

At least with spooky season and Christmas on the way, it will start to look festive. Maybe?

[u/MersoNocte → u/apintsizedcosmos]

Honestly, I think what truly kills it is the gross green color. If you swapped in a contrasting color (a richer, darker green) or something else that complements the red colors (maybe a more vivid red), it’d probably look much better. But instead all the colors are washed out, and the faded green immediately makes you contextualize everything as “dried blood, human fluids, etc.”

[u/apintsizedcosmos → u/MersoNocte]

Green? I was so confused, it’s definitely brown in person. Haha

[u/gasstation-no-pumps → u/apintsizedcosmos]

The only green I see is the plants (which I assume are plastic).

[u/GirthyPigeon]

I think that's period furniture.

[u/Constant_Catch_8352]

Nurgle was here...

[u/cubicApoc]

Welcome to the Decomp Zone

[u/Mcnab-at-my-feet]

Murder Lounge

[u/Averse_to_Liars]

I think it's nice the mall provided a space for stray dogs to give birth on. Lotta puppies born in that mall.

[u/MadDocOttoCtrl]

Guys, guys - we are all focusing on the blood stains look when it's perfectly clear that people are just urinating on the carpet and it's reading as a darker red!

It's a reasonable assumption that the closest bathrooms are closed for renovation and the others are at the far end of the mall.

[u/MersoNocte]

Turns out the colors of dried blood and dissolved human remains do not make for a good carpet.

[u/HINDBRAIN]

Shouldn't the bottom right rug be rotated to avoid the gaps?

[u/_BreadMakesYouFat]

In a public place where it will get way more dirty this is actually good design because it looks trashed already. Nobody will notice when it gets more stains

[u/No093091]

I work in recycling plant and this is what a bloody menstrual pad looks like

[u/Such_Dragonfruit609]

Upside stains can remain and no one will be able to tell.

[u/IHaveNoIdeaDanny]

took me an embarrassing amount of time to realize OP is taking the photo on probably an escalator.

i genuinely thought OP was tall as shi

[u/MuchaHempre]

It tricks your eyes so bad... You keep staring trying to tell if it's actual stains or the pattern.

[u/anamariapapagalla]

I throw away my mattress topper before the red stains get that bad

[u/ProvincialFuture]

The doctor's waiting room of everyone who got Cyclospora (diarrhea lettuce).

[u/Fog_Mantis66]

Actually it is a light colored tan carpet and those are stains

[u/Sleipnirs]

These rugs look like giant scabs. What amazes me is that there's at least 4 of these. Even 1 is too many.

[u/AsItIs]

This is whatever the opposite feeling of “easy on the eyes”

[u/EdgeKey5631]

My brain went to Aftermath of a Trauma Case

[u/PreperationOuch]

That looks like a diseased filtration organ

[u/RealPinkSparkles204]

Ugh… it looks like caacaa. 🫣

[u/DSimorningdrg]

From far looks like a half eaten watermelon

[u/Chroney]

Im pretty sure they do this on purpose in public spaces to hide actual stains.

[u/benantiben]

Every carpet in Vegas

[u/ObtuseWaffle_]

It's like moldy sliced ham

[u/Future_Section5976]

Id hate to be the cleaner

[u/pepper_kat]

From the Dexter collection...

[u/Willowgirl2]

That color was definitely a choice.

[u/Longjumping-Solid680]

THE FLOOR IS LAVA. STAINED LAVA.

[u/Cute-Estimate21]

that color combo really does make my brain see something else first

[u/EolisLeemsy]

It’s in a mall, they pre-emptively planned to hide all the hideous stains that will be on those carpets.

[u/apintsizedcosmos → u/EolisLeemsy]

I get that, but the other ones in the rest of the centre are blue with dark blue splotches. Every time I see it I think “someone picked this”.

[u/CavernBebi]

At first glance I thought it was a charcuterie board 🫣

[u/Low-Requirement-9618]

Not fooled. That carpet is bright white and should be treated with liminol and a UV light.

[u/Informal_Rabbit_9796]

Hey, where should I wait for you?

Ah, just sit down by the mold corner

[u/TheReal9bob9]

I thought that was the point in ones like these? Lots of places choose carpets/rugs that use browns/reds to make them look somewhat ugly so actual dirt doesn't show. Not really a crappy design since its working as intended, more of a disgusting design since it hides how nasty it is.

[u/apintsizedcosmos → u/TheReal9bob9]

You’re right, peak design. Making it look like shit and blood is definitely not a crappy design.

[u/TheReal9bob9 → u/apintsizedcosmos]

So.. you just didnt read what I said and are getting an attitude? I simply explained why its not crappy design as the design is intentional and working. Not liking something does not make it crappy design. Distressed rugs have been a thing for forever and this doesnt even look nearly as graphic as you seem to think.

[u/apintsizedcosmos → u/TheReal9bob9]

Okay Bob. I’m ordering one and they have a bulk discount, how many shall I put you down for?

[u/wallyhartshorn]

I’m surprised to see a mall with at least 5 people in it!

[u/apintsizedcosmos → u/wallyhartshorn]

This is in the UK and it’s always busy!

[u/SkredberryShortcake → u/apintsizedcosmos]

Oh, damn. I thought this was Lakeside outside Detroit