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I Seriously Can't Stop Laughing At These Extremely Hilarious And Tragic DIY Fails

If you ever feel bad about your own awful home improvement skills, just remember...

1.At least your TV didn't take a gigantic leap:

A large screen TV facedown on the floor
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2.At least you don't have to clean up this mess:

A spilled can of ultra-stain is all over the floor
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3.At least you don't bang your big ol' noggin every time you go downstairs:

Person standing on a step with their head extending above the ceiling
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4.At least you didn't drill your bathtub a brand-new drain:

Person accidentally drills a hole through their upstairs bathtub
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5.At least you didn't lay a nice coat of paint on the self-checkout machine:

Pink paint spilled on a self-checkout machine
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6.At least you didn't seal a mosquito into its new eternal resting place:

Arrow pointing to mosquito sealed under epoxy on a countertop
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7.At least you don't have to play the worst game of bobbing for apples the world has ever seen:

"Whoops" with a paintbrush drowning in a paint can
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8.At least your attic project didn't lead to a bedroom project:

Paint all over a room's walls and floor and chest of drawers
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9.At least your phone didn't get a new, HEAVY-DUTY paint job:

A phone covered in paint from a bucket of paint
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10.At least those cabinets you put up didn't fall to their untimely doom:

Kitchen cabinet that's fallen to the floor
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11.At least your stairs didn't get a visit from the ghost of Jackson Pollock:

Paint spilled all over stairs
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12.At least you aren't seasoning your food with a healthy heap of dust:

A kitchen with a ceiling vent and a stove top circled below it

13.At least your downstairs light isn't taking a nice bubble bath:

A ceiling light with the shade covered in bubbles
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14.At least you didn't metamorphose into a chandelier:

Person falling through a ceiling
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15.At least you didn't have to learn this very valuable lesson...

A front door that doesn't fit into the space
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16....or this other very valuable lesson:

Window blinds that don't fit the window
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17.At least you didn't pick quite possibly the worst place to drill:

"Drilled into a sewage pipe while mounting my TV"
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18.At least your awning doesn't have you aw-ing in pain:

Wooden piece of awning goes right through the large ladder
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19.At least you didn't fly real fast and loose with those tiles at the end:

Strips of tile used to make one square
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20.At least you didn't completely miss on this installation:

Canopy isn't directly above a doorway
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21.At least your fridge isn't taunting you:

A top of a fridge just a tad higher than the wall above it, with the caption "My new fridge is an eighth of an inch too tall"
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22.At least you aren't forever trapped on your roof after your ladder fell:

A tipped-over ladder seen from a roof, with text saying, "Oh no"
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23.At least a cat didn't laugh in the face of your concrete:

Freshly poured concrete with cat prints
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24.At least you didn't spill literally everything:

Spilled sand from a wheelbarrow
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25.At least you didn't leave your bedroom looking like a crime scene while painting:

Red paint spill on a light carpet and a black wall
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26.At least you didn't put your ceiling fan in fan prison:

A ceiling fan blocked by scaffolding

27.At least this isn't the first thing you see every single morning:

Misaligned doorknobs
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28.At least your lamp isn't forever yearning to be free:

Lamp behind a grate ceiling: "Who thought it was a good idea"
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29.At least you didn't learn about how truly different various types of paint can be:

Car painted with house paint
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30.At least you won't have a heart attack every time you leave your bedroom:

Door opening onto the side of a flight of stairs
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31.At least your dang lights aren't underwater:

A ceiling transparent lampshade filled with water
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32.At least your cat and the Roomba didn't conspire against you:

White paint on a wood floor in random paths, created by cat and a Roomba
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33.At least you didn't pull off the impossible while installing a roof:

Nails jutting out of metal roof that missed the wooden beams
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34.At least you didn't learn the hard way about the necessity of using a stud finder:

A row of small holes in a wall
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35.At least you won't be forced to choose between fresh air and water for the foreseeable future:

Sink faucet blocking a window from opening out
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36.At least the vent you installed won't be blasting whatever happens in the bathroom all over the place:

Vent right behind a toilet tank
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37.At least your downstairs neighbors didn't accidentally drill a hole straight into your floor:

A very long drill coming through the floor
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38.At least you don't have approximately 7 inches between your boiling pot of water and your stove hood:

A very low stove hood below a cabinet
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39.At least you aren't trapped forever upstairs:

Person at top of stairs that have been dismantled
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40.At least the local ducks don't have it out for you:

Many, many duck footprints on fresh cement outside a home's garage
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41.At least you aren't reminded of humanity's foibles every time you turn the light on:

A light switch abutting a doorframe
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42.At least your blood pressure won't go up every time you take a bath and look at your faucet and handle:

Misaligned faucet and handles in a bathtub
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43.At least your neighbor didn't just put in a chandelier:

Four thick screws emerging through a wood floor
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44.At least your stove won't drive you up a wall and to the left every time you use it:

Misaligned electric stove burner and hob
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45.At least your showerhead isn't a grotesque monstrosity full of horrors our simple human brains cannot comprehend:

Showerhead with a mound of yellow gunk/foam behind it where it emerges from the wall
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46.At least your faucet didn't juuuust miss the mark:

Faucet too short to reach the sink, so water just flows onto the side of the sink
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47.At least you aren't locked in a never-ending game of hide-and-go-seek with an outlet:

Outlet half hidden behind a wall
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48.At least your pipe, uh, doesn't, uh, you know, uh, look like this:

Pipe emerging from a floorboard painted the same color as the floor and looking like a large penis
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49.At least you won't cringe every time you go to sauté some vegetables on the stove:

A stove not aligned with hood above it
Kevin Szabo Jr Plumbing / Facebook / Via Facebook: KevinSzaboJrPlumbing

50.At least you didn't run out of paint at the worst possible moment:

Wall and ceiling with large unpainted patches
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51.At least you didn't pop your wall full of holes:

Many holes in a wall looking for a stud

52.At least your door can still door:

Door with two handles facing the same way
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53.At least you're not dealing with...this:

Roof hood that's connected to nothing; caption: "The job went to the lowest bidder"
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54.At least your Roomba didn't find a tiny piece of rock and go to town:

Scratches all over a kitchen floor
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55.At least you didn't forget a very important step of painting:

Person who accidentally painted their clothes while painting a louvered closet door
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56.At least a leaf won't be part of your home decor until the end of days:

Painted-over leaf
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57.At least your new shower doesn't look like this:

A shattered glass shower door in pieces all over the bathroom tile
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58.At least your toilet isn't a dang puzzle:

A toilet bowl with the lid underneath the seat

59.At least your ceiling fan isn't locked in a heated battle with your wall:

A three-blade ceiling fan whose blades have made deep holes in the surrounding wall on either side
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60.And at least your poor stove didn't just find out how heavy microwaves are:

Microwave above a shattered stove top

Rough.

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