50 times people should have hired a professional for their home projects

When doing renovations or simple jobs around the home, it’s often better to hire someone who knows what they are doing.

However, many people choose to do the job themselves, or they go cheap and hire someone else who doesn’t know what they are doing. In the long run, either of these options could end up spending you much more than if you had hired a true pro from the get-go.

Here are 50 examples that show going and paying for the professional route is usually the best route.

1. Hopefully that’s just for storage

And I don’t mean storage for the car. If they are just going to be putting boxes and junk in there fine. Getting the car in there will be problematic.

2. How does this make sense?

Even if they paved right out to the road and left the tree, it still wouldn’t work. That tree is going to grow. Trees do that. And have fun trying to sell the house like that.

3. Driveway or ski hill?

This is absurd on so many levels. And what happens to the undercarriage of your car when you have one set of wheels on the driveway and the other in the garage? I don’t even think this will work.

4. Why stop there?

If you are going to close in the stairs, why not finish the job? What is the sense of that alcove that doesn’t seem to serve a purpose and the last few stairs a bit of railing?

5. Brick laying 101

You stack the bricks on top of each other, nice and straight. Unless, of course, they are supposed to form a curve. That is clearly not the case here. I bet getting the windows done was super expensive, if they had to deal with that mess.

6. For aesthetic purposes?

I can actually see, from a design point of view, where you might want to do something like this. Perhaps to provide balance. But really, what a waste.

7. Ensuite master bath

Yeah, that’s not what they mean. The good thing, if you wake up and have to pee, the toilet is right there. The bad thing? The toilet is right there. So bizarre.

8. Code violation?

We don’t know where this located, but where I live I’m pretty sure this would be a code violation. Besides the fact those stairs look too steep. Recipe for disaster.

9. The price of privacy

So you need and extra bathroom but space is a little tight. I still don’t see how this works. It looks like the door will hit the back wall, so how do you get past the door, on the toilet, and close the door?

10. Forget the plastic wrap

You know when people cover the toilet with Saran Wrap as a joke? That’s so passé. What you need is this very wrong toilet seat. Did it come like that? Because those are usually a unit.

11. For your stick legs

Because the only legs fitting in there are stick legs. You can’t even put one leg on each side. So you sit and dunk your feet.

12. Half-assed

This is a half-assed job. And apparently for a half-assed person. Or is this what they are calling a half bath now?

13. Ouch!

Can you imagine sitting on that? I recently broke my ankles, so I understand how difficult it can be to get up off the toilet, but that cut out would be chewing on your ass.

14. Charging station

What a perfect place for an outlet. You can sit stuff—stuff that has long cords—on the stairs and have something to trip over and kill yourself.

15. DIY AC

Who needs to spend money on central air? All you need to do is hack a hole in the ceiling and install a large box fan. What could go wrong?

16. This cannot be

Okay. There is water in the bowl. Is there water in the tank? Is that outlet wired? This is just foolishness.

17. Not so decorative

I really hope this beam is just decorative and isn’t supporting a single thing. Because this is not the intended purpose of hot glue.

18. Airplane hanger?

This must be for a small plane—or a large drone. There is absolutely no other explanation. Unless someone has a crane to get their car in and out of the garage.

19. A room with a view

So, there is a chimney behind that window. And have to admit, I have no idea how or why this would happen. Did they add the fireplace after the fact or the room at the top? So many questions.

20. Is it just me?

I don’t know, but it looks to me like the tank is flush with the wall like it’s supposed to be. But if so, how would the bowl be in that position. But who cares. Why is it like this?

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21. Brain damage

I should think that before someone got to this point in the installation that they should have realized something was wrong. As in there is no head room.

22. New room?

I’m wondering if they put in a wall to add a new room. Which is cool. However, it would have made sense to remove the light fixture first.

23. New pavers

Doing some hardscaping around the house can add value to your property. Unless you do something like this—and your property value plummets.

24. Measure twice, cut once

I don’t think that was applied here. In fact, I don’t think any measurements were taken at all. And how did they even get the fan installed, when it clearly doesn’t fit in that space?

25. What came first?

I’m guessing, for some reason, a new floor was laid. And not where one had been before. Because there is no way those stairs could have been installed otherwise.

26. No tall people allowed

Someone could get seriously injured here. Crack their head open or lose an eye. And I’m pretty sure this is a code violation, since doorways have to be a certain height.

27. For sale

To the person or family who doesn’t own a car. Which is a shame, since there is that nice big driveway and lovely garage. You just won’t be able to access either due to the pole.

28. Does it snow there?

Can you imaging having to shovel this? Or if it got icy? Or having to park in the driveway while you unloaded/loaded kids, groceries, or whatever? No thank you!

29. Side table

Oh, wait. That’s not a side table! Was this room at one time a bathroom with a fireplace? If they have closed over the fireplace, why not remove the toilet and sink as well? This is just gross.

30. I would have to move

Okay, it wouldn’t have to be that extreme. But there is no way I could live with that. That tile would need to be pulled up and laid down again with straight lines.

31. Oh, sure. That will work

This isn’t really a difficult job. And since you are installing a door stop, you would think you would place it in a spot that would stop the door. But, no.

32. Is that a heater?

If so, who on earth would install a heater on a door? And even if that’s a door that’s not used, this isn’t a good idea. Especially if that’s an exterior door.

33. A perfect restoration

Where I live, people try to restore century homes so the maintain their former glory. This is an abomination to begin with, but when you add the crooked window, it’s a complete fail.

34. What a perfect pairing

A tap over an electrical outlet. I really hope that at least one of those is not in use. If not, when the house burns down, I hope they realize their insurance won’t cover them.

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35. Water is heavy

I’m guessing there was no engineer and no knowledge of math involved in this construct. It looks like there was very little supporting that deck—that had a hot tub full of water on it.

36. What’s that saying?

Oh, yeah. Painting yourself into a corner. Or in this case, painting yourself into a few shingles on the roof.

37. So much is wrong here

This looks like a beautiful foyer. And then things go terribly wrong. Was this supposed to be the powder room at the front door. Behind a stained-glass window? And is the at bathtub or a horse trough?

38. Double sink fail

Did they never see a double sink in action? Or see a picture of one? What good is that sink that no water will reach into?

39. Redneck shower head

I get wanting a shower head that sprays a larger area of water. But creating this ugliness to get it is unnecessary. A little shopping around was all it would have taken.

40. Why are there so many of these?

You wouldn’t think trees and poles in the middle of a driveway were that common, but clearly they are. And I just don’t understand it.

41. Squat

Is this training for when you go camping and have to squat in the woods to do your business? Because there is no way you could do anything other than squat here. Okay, I take that back. You could also stand on it.

42. Yep, that won’t work

I’m surprised that whoever installed this took this long to realize something was backward. Were they standing on their head while doing this?

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43. We can make this work

Okay, small kitchens are a real thing. But I think a better job than this could be done at utilizing space. And is that an exterior door? Crazy?

44. Fun house

This is when you ask someone to run down to the basement and get something for you. Someone clearly spent a lot of money on that staircase, so what is up with it ending in a wall?

45. Just make it fit

I’m wondering what is the point of having drawers if it’s impossible to open them. Perhaps the countertop was the real priority? Then why… ?

46. Hire a kitchen fitter

Perfect. The stove is finally in and everything is all set up. You new DIY kitchen is ready to go. Except… Oh, oh.

47. No one will ever notice

It can be hard to match old base board, but this person has done a stellar job. Finishing touches are so important to your overall look.

48. Good as new

So the dog chewed up some of the baseboard but you knew exactly what to do. No sense wasting money to get a pro in, just use a ton of caulk and fill it in so it looks the same shape as the base board. Easy peasy.

49. It took me a moment

Looking at this I couldn’t figure out why it looked wrong. Have you figured it out? They’ve installed a sink faucet instead of a bath faucet. That’s why it curves toward the wall of the tub.

50. So wrong

I’m not sure what happened here but this looks terrible. Someone has installed that nice backsplash and then just destroyed the look with this horrible installation of an outlet.

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