Man Feels His House's Pain in Crazy New Home-Improvement Ad

Another strange spot from Hornbach

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Hornbach is the world's most outrageous home-improvement advertiser. Every few months, the German chain releases a bizarre new commercial, usually showing the main character experiencing the rush of do-it-yourself construction projects as some kind of extravagant sensory explosion. Its recent epic spots have included one with a deck builder wielding a hammer of the gods, and another in which the very sounds of home improvement are beautifully symphonic to their many-eared practitioners. (And let's not even get into the awesomeness of the brand's surreal short film "The Infinite House.")

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