Note to self : charter an expert .

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

1.At least you didn’t give your carpet a cool, clean, fresh coat of paint:

2.At least your toilet didn’t make you a new indoor pool:

3.At least you didn’t learn this very valuable lesson:

4.At least you aren’t actively trying to end your grandpappies:

5.At least you didn’t make a very, very expensive error:

6.At least your wall doesn’t look like a frickin' Rothko painting… I’m serious!

7.At least the one thing that was supposed to build didn’t destroy your floor:

8.At least you don’t have to live out the rest of your days in the basement:

9.At least you didn’t spill black paint tastefully up and down your carpeted stairs:

10.At least you didn’t anger some very nasty birds:

11.At least you didn’t miss a crucial, crucial spot:

12.At least your TV didn’t take a gigantic leap:

13.At least you don’t bang your big ol' noggin every time you go downstairs:

14.At least you didn’t drill your bathtub a brand-new drain:

15.At least you didn’t lay a nice coat of paint on the self-checkout machine:

16.At least you didn’t seal a mosquito into its new eternal resting place:

17.At least your attic project didn’t lead to a bedroom project:

18.At least those cabinets you put up didn’t fall to their untimely doom:

19.At least your stairs didn’t get a visit from the ghost of Jackson Pollock:

20.At least you aren’t seasoning your food with a healthy heap of dust:

21.At least you didn’t metamorphose into a chandelier:

22.At least you didn’t have to learn this very valuable lesson…

23….or this other very valuable lesson:

24.At least your awning doesn’t have you aw-ing in pain:

25.At least you didn’t fly real fast and loose with those tiles at the end:

26.At least you didn’t completely miss on this installation:

27.At least your fridge isn’t taunting you:

28.At least you aren’t forever trapped on your roof after your ladder fell:

29.At least a cat didn’t laugh in the face of your concrete:

30.At least you didn’t spill literally everything:

31.At least you didn’t leave your bedroom looking like a crime scene while painting:

32.At least you didn’t put your ceiling fan in fan prison:

33.At least this isn’t the first thing you see every single morning:

34.At least you won’t have a heart attack every time you leave your bedroom:

35.At least your cat and the Roomba didn’t conspire against you:

36.At least the vent you installed won’t be blasting whatever happens in the bathroom all over the place:

37.At least you don’t have approximately 7 inches between your boiling pot of water and your stove hood:

38.At least you aren’t reminded of humanity’s foibles every time you turn the light on:

39.At least you aren’t locked in a never-ending game of hide-and-go-seek with an outlet:

40.At least your pipe, uh, doesn’t, uh, you know, uh, look like this:

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

42.At least you didn’t pop your wall full of holes:

43.At least you’re not dealing with…this:

44.At least your toilet isn’t a dang puzzle:

45.And at least you’re not the Green Man:

Spilled paint

A flooded bathroom with brown water up to the toilet seat

Text on image: "I have discovered the longest length of board I can fit in my car… apparently a hair shy of 10 feet!" Image shows a board through a car windshield

Wooden stairs in a basement with a text overlay: "My grandparents needed a new set of stairs to the basement. Being in their 90's, I offered my services free of charge. Love you MEE-mah-haha and PEE-pah-paw ?."

A wall with a rectangular hole exposing a white PVC pipe and a wooden stud. The pipe has red text and two screw holes

Partially painted room with electric outlets and a mirror. A smoke detector with a pull-cord hangs from the ceiling

A screwdriver in a floorboard

Polished stairs with caption, "I stained my bathroom stairs and completely forgot I'd have to, you know, go back upstairs"

Paint all over a carpeted staircase

A white outdoor table with leaf shadows and small debris scattered on the surface

Stacked flat-pack boxes leaning against a wall, possibly DIY furniture or materials for home improvement. No persons or text present

A large screen TV facedown on the floor

Person standing on a step with their head extending above the ceiling

Person accidentally drills a hole through their upstairs bathtub

Pink paint spilled on a self-checkout machine

Arrow pointing to mosquito sealed under epoxy on a countertop

Paint all over a room's walls and floor and chest of drawers

Kitchen cabinet that's fallen to the floor

Paint spilled all over stairs

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

Person falling through a ceiling

A front door that doesn't fit into the space

Window blinds that don't fit the window

Wooden piece of awning goes right through the large ladder

Strips of tile used to make one square

Canopy isn't directly above a doorway

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"

A tipped-over ladder seen from a roof, with text saying, "Oh no"

Freshly poured concrete with cat prints

Spilled sand from a wheelbarrow

Red paint spill on a light carpet and a black wall

A ceiling fan blocked by scaffolding

Misaligned doorknobs

Door opening onto the side of a flight of stairs

White paint on a wood floor in random paths, created by cat and a Roomba

Vent right behind a toilet tank

A very low stove hood below a cabinet

A light switch abutting a doorframe

Outlet half hidden behind a wall

Pipe emerging from a floorboard painted the same color as the floor and looking like a large penis

Wall and ceiling with large unpainted patches

Many holes in a wall looking for a stud

Roof hood that's connected to nothing; caption: "The job went to the lowest bidder"

A toilet bowl with the lid underneath the seat

A person's arm and hand are partially covered in green paint, with text stating, "Well, at least I wore gloves while painting."