We can’t get enough of Ugly Belgian Houses! They’re bizarre. They sometimes hurt to look at. They’re so unique and so far from boring that we can’t help but love them… and love to hate them.
The brainchild of Hannes Coudenys, the Ugly Belgian Houses project has been going strong for years. Hannes documents some of the most peculiar examples of genuinely Belgian architecture that might make your inner designer wince and facepalm. Below, you’ll find the latest crop of (arguably) ugly houses.
Pssst, Pandas, we know how much you love bizarre architecture. So when you’re done enjoying this architecturally interesting article and upvoting the houses you thought were the worst of the bunch, you should definitely check out Bored Panda’s previous lists about Ugly Belgian Houses here: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
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#1 Car Wars
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#2 You Seem To Have Misplaced Your Balcony
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#3 Why Would You Want A Window When You Can Have A Door?
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Currently, Ugly Belgian Houses has a whopping 161k followers on Instagram, as well as an additional 120k+ fans on Facebook. And these folks can’t wait for the latest architectural disasters to challenge their understanding of good and bad taste.
Hannes, the founder of the project, has published a book about Ugly Belgian Houses, does vlogging on the side on YouTube, and even has his own creative digital studio, Hurae.
#4 Art Imitating Life
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#5 At Least The Neighbors Have A C View
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#6 All The Single Windows, All The Single Windows
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Earlier, the founder of the project spoke to Bored Panda about the Instagram page, beauty, and how some homeowners can get very angry when their properties get featured.
“I have been visiting a lot of the houses and had some really nice conversations,” Hannes told Bored Panda earlier.
#7 Party In The Front Business In The Back
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#8 Belgians Need To Stop Thinking The Box Needs To Be Outside
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#9 Well, It Does Have A Cupholder
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“Meanwhile I am working on a second edition of the book, so I have to call all the owners again. I’ve just had a call with two people who hate me and don’t want their house in my book. I can understand that,” he opened up to us.
#10 So This Is The House That God Built
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#11 Squid Playing Games With My House
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#12 Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Who’s The Ugliest Of Them All?
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According to the Belgian, the success of his project is due to “the fact that we all have a certain opinion on what makes a house beautiful. Or ugly. And the fact that these opinions are only opinions.”
Meanwhile, he pointed out that a lot of Belgians also agree that they have a lot of ugly houses in the country. It’s not a unique perspective to have there. However, Hannes firmly believes that it is better to have an ugly house than a boring one.
#13 Home Sweet Gnome
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#14 A Part Of Me Feels Empty
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#15 You Don’t Need A Flag. We All Know This Is Belgium
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“In Belgium, you have a lot of suburbs and housing projects that all look the same and are in fact very boring. Something you see in Holland as well. I prefer ugly than these boring creatures,” he suggested that calling a house ‘ugly’ is almost a subtle compliment.
#16 You Had One Job
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#17 When They Tell You You Can Use The Back Door
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#18 One Of Mozes’ Less Famous Miracles
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In his opinion, a typical ugly house in Belgium has “its own quirky uniqueness” such as having “a special roof, a special stone, a special decoration.” He added: “We want to express ourselves via our house.”
Hannes joked that his beloved project has turned into a kind of a cult. “We all love to hate ugly Belgian houses,” he told us. However, Belgium is far from the only place that has errrr unique architecture. “Poland has terrible architecture, as a lot of people have let me see,” he shared his insights.
#19 ? Our Street In The Middle Of Our House ?
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#20 Lord Of The Cringe
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#21 Inception
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It doesn’t mean that Belgium only has disturbingly quirky houses, though. Hannes thinks there’s a lot of good there, too. “I like the work of Gijs van Vaerenbergh, Vens-Vanbelle, De Vylder Vinck Taillieu, Vincent van Duysen,” he said.
#22 If You’re Happy And You Know Like This House
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#23 Good Morning Vietnam! I Mean ?? Belgium!
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#24 My Son Wondering Why I’m Filming
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“Normally, if you like architecture you like good houses, but in Belgium, there’s a lot of ugly architecture. So I started taking pictures of it,” he opened up about the roots of the Ugly Belgian Houses project.
“Because regulations are quite liberal and we love to design our own quirky dreamhouse,” the founder of the page said. And some homeowners are so proud of the designs, they’re willing to fight Hannes tooth and nail.
#25 Check The Houses On The Other Side
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#26 Brick-A-Baraque
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#27 Slide ? To The Left
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“I received emails from lawyers and eventually gave in, stopping the blog altogether. I can understand the negative reactions in a way… It’s the house of their dreams and I am demolishing it!” he told Bored Panda.
#28 Let’s Meet The Pharaoh
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#29 When Your Entrance Is Swollen
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#30 Meltdown
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#31 Tower To The People
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#32 Clap Along If You Feel Like A Room Without A Room
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#33 Is This The Submarine?
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#34 That’s When Good Neighbors Become Good Friends
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#35 Lord Of The Cringe: The Two Towers
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#36 This Is My Church
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#37 Insane In The Spain
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#38 It’s Like Ugly Belgian Jesus Nailed To An Ugly Belgian House ?
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#39 Ding Dong
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#40 Spain ?? In The Ass
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#41 I Think We Reached Peak Ugly Belgian Houses ?
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#42 I Do Mind The Gap
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#43 Stay Outside The Box
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#44 Out Of The Box
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#45 Oops There It Is
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#46 Berlingo & Juliet
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#47 The Worst Of Both Worlds
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#48 New Wave Of Uglybelgianhouses Coming
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#49 When You Turn Your Castle Inside Out
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#50 Think Outside The Parallelogram
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#51 Dominoooooooooo
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#52 When You Wipe Your Architecture Too Hard
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#53 Error & Try
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#54 When U Need A Ladder To Look Outside Your Window
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#55 I Can’t Wait To See The Result ?
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#56 The Grass Is Black On The Other Side.
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#57 Computer Says No
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#58 We All Live In A Yellow S**tmachine
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#59 Why Does My House, Feel So Bad ?
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#60 Caption This
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#61 Bric-A-Baraque
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#62 Is That An Antenna Or Are You Just Happy To Be Ugly? (Less Ugly Than The Building Next To It Though)
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#63 And After Aaaaaallll, You’re My Blunder Waaaaaallll
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#64 When Dumbo Lost His Mama
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#65 You Had One Job
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#66 The Roof Was 50% Off
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#67 Grounded For Life
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#68 Aaaaaah Lasagnaaaaa
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#69 Go Belgium ?? ?❤️?
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#70 Aroused House
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#71 I Am The Wallroof Coocoocachoo
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#72 It’s Not Because Your House Is Off-Road That You Need A Bullbar And A Snorkel
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#73 Now That’s A Sad Transformer
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#74 Luke, I Am Your House
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#75 Archeologists Found 2000 Year Old Ugly Belgian House
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#76 Stair Into Eachother’s Eyes
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#77 2️⃣ More Days Until @uglybelgianhouses The Expo Opens At Ruby’s?
— Opening Night This Thursday Febr 3 From 6pm, See You Soon!
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#78 Take A Bow (And Shoot Me)
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#79 Who Erected This Building
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#80 We Have Options
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#81 Remember When Houses Still Had Floppy Disk Slots? Me Neither ?
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#82 Who Was Ugly First?
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#83 You Could Buy This House! Or You Could Buy My New Book That’s Coming Out This Week!
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#84 Mais(N)on!
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#85 One Two Christmas Three
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#86 Drive In Temple
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#87 Parthenon
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#88 Tiny House Or Door To Another Dimension?
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#89 Holds A Lot Of Magazines! ? #uglybelgianhouses
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#90 Hodl
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#91 Avant-Merde (Style Belge)
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#92 United Colours Of Begyourpardon?
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#93 Are You Cooking Meth In There?
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#94 ? The Roof, The Roof, The Roof Is Gone Bye Bye ?
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#95 House (Extended 12” Remix)
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#96 Darkside Of The Room
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#97 Architect With Tunnel Vision
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#98 Let’s Do This
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