If you meet a home design professional at a dinner party, don’t walk away. Stay put and you may hear some of the strangest, most entertaining stories you’ve ever heard. Like the one about an interior designer’s client who secretly fed him marijuana brownies. Or the client who wanted an underground tunnel just to drive his Hummer in. Or the client who wanted two toilets facing each other so he could share everything with his dating partners.





Indeed, in a realm where

money (sometimes limitless) and dreams (sometimes surreal) do the tango, the subject matter will inevitably include sex, drugs, food, toilets and much, much more.

We asked interior designers, architects, builders and other home professionals to share the strangest client request they’d ever had and, well, you’ve got to hear them to believe them.

After all, while it’s true that clients are always right, that doesn’t mean they’re always right in the head.