I’ve got nothing but respect for people who can actually pull off DIY. It takes patience, skill, and a level of confidence I simply don’t have. Personally, the peak of my handiwork is assembling IKEA furniture, and that’s only because the instructions leave little room for disaster.
If I ever tried a proper home project, though, I’d probably end up featured on the subreddit “DiWHY.” It’s the internet’s favorite gallery of attempts that were meant to be clever or budget-friendly but instead leave everyone asking: how did it come to this?
The answer, of course, is that creativity may have no limits—but common sense usually does.
#1 ...what?
Hand-carved carpet on wooden floor. What a masterpiece.
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#2 Customize Your Sunroof Because Why Not
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#3 Jackson Pollock Vibe. It’s A No For Me…
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#4 Found In The Millennial Sub
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#5 Someone Made A Jacket Made Of Heinz Packets For A Guy Named Heinz To Wear To His Wedding
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#6 Blessed Be The FB Algorithm
Absolutely beautiful
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#7 Just Installed The New Inheritance 5000 Staircase Leading To My 90 Year Old Dad's Basement
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#8 I Made Invisible Headphones For My Wife
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#9 I.. I Don't Understand
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#10 I Made Headphones With Integrated Cd Player, Remote Control, Battery, Disc Storage, And Jewel Box Compartment
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#11 And This Is Why You Don’t Build Your Own Kitchen
Built my first home at age 30. Designed the kitchen myself and completed it with my dad who owns a cabinet shop. The kitchen is my absolute favorite part.
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#12 The Fourth Time Was Very Much Not The Charm
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#13 Who The Hell Thought This Would Work
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#14 Found On Fb, Good Lord
Just made this addition to my Airbnb.
I hope my bank account is big enough to hold all of the revenue I will get from my bookings!
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#15 Close Enough
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#16 Guy Really Wanted His TV Flat Against The Wall
I do handyman work and home renos. WAs recently contracted to fill this up from the previous owner. You kinda gotta admire the guys dedication on one hand, while also being completely unnecessary.
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#17 Landlord Replaced My Door And I Noticed It Was Creaking
Landlord used screws instead of the correct pin.
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#18 You What Now?
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#19 Perfection
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#20 They're Almost Done With The First Coat!
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#21 Bought Spare Remotes Then My 4 Year Old Found Electrical Tape And Made This So We’d Never Lose Another Remote
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#22 This "Ladder" To Reach A Loft In An Airbnb
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#23 Foam To Fix Foundation
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#24 DIY Camper
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#25 My Parents: We Don't Need A Paint Roller
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#26 'l' Themed Baby Shower DIY Costume Turns Into Nightmare Fuel. Why Didn't I Just Buy One?!
So I was supposed to got to a dress up baby shower with the theme L (baby's name will be Lennox, anyway)... for 3 weeks I had been working on a Lorax costume, with each edit getting progressively creepier. I was nervous to wear it and was already embarrassed by it. Today was the baby shower and my husband stuck the costume on before I started getting ready, and thank God he did, cause holy hell imagine rocking up to a baby shower dressed like this!!!! I ditched the lorax and went as a Luche Libre wrestler instead.
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#27 What Is The Purpose Of This
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#28 Found On An Apartment Rental Listing
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#29 First Rate Kitchen Planning Right Here
Finally finished the kitchen. Adding the dishwasher was tight, but we made it work....
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#30 When You Think With The Box
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#31 Asking If I Installed My AC Properly Since This Is A DIY Job. Temp Is Set To 17, But The House Just Keeps Getting Warmer
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#32 We Didn't Have A Shower In Our House For A Year And A Half But Now We Have This!
My partner and I thought we could build a roman style tub from scratch in a month. A year and a half with no shower later, here we are.
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#33 The Solution To Too Much Empty Space
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#34 I Made Headphones With A Water Pump That Produces Continuous Natural Rain Sounds
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#35 Coworker Cut His Hair Using Mirrors
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#36 Just... Why?
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#37 Why Does My Stomach Hurt, Carly?
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#38 Found In A Hotel In Erfurt... I Don't Even Know What To Think Of This
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#39 Should This Even Work?
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#40 Partener Tried To Dye Our White Couch Because It Had Some Stains. I Said We Shouldve Got Couch Covers But No
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#41 They Say This Belongs Here
My man made me a pencil. Took 2 hrs.
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#42 That's Why Home Depot Was Out Of Caulk
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#43 I Think It’s Clever. Friends Raised Their Eyebrows
I only use a few apps and did not subscribe to any of the featured app hot buttons built in to the remote. So I sliced them off so they are harder to hit by accident.
I don’t recommend this. But if you want to do this, Do not cut the button out. Just slice off the rubber part protruding above the plastic.
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#44 ☹️
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#45 Because Trees Don't Grow?
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#46 My Girlfriend Is Disgusted By My Resourcefulness
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#47 The Death Pantry Is Going To Haunt My Dreams
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#48 Here Child Have A Stick Peed On
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#49 I Made My GF A Pillow Out Of My Chest Hair So She Can Pretend She’s Laying On My Chest Every Night
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#50 The Iud Necklace As Seen On X (Twitter)
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