5 Home Projects You’d Be An IDIOT Trying to DIY

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Between HGTV and Pinterest, a whole new generation of people have been born who think that they’re fully capable of doing all sorts of things around the house themselves to help save a little cash as well as share a bit of their own creative flair with the world.

But not everything that you see on Pinterest should necessarily become your next Do-It-Yourself project, and here’s a list of five of them for starters that you’d just have to be one of the dumbest people alive to think that you can do around your own home without the help of professional contractors and people who are actually creative and not just keen at clicking on creative things that they find on the Internet…

5. Doing the Dishes.
Look at that mountain – who even knows how long it’s been piling up?! And was that a bug that just crawled underneath that cereal bowl in the corner of the sink? You’d have to be crazy to think that a mere mortal could be capable of cleaning all of those dishes. It’s time to call in a professional, or to nuke the entire kitchen from orbit – whichever is easier.

4. Remembering to lock the front door before everybody goes to bed at night.
Though a man’s home may be his castle, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s his sole responsibility to make sure that the moat is filled to the brim each night before going off to bed. Let somebody else put their slippers on and go take care of it – you’ve had a long day, too, you know.

3. Putting the toilet seat down.
It’s a common stereotype that men always forget to put the toilet seat down after they urinate, thus causing the ladies of their household to get a wet tushy whenever they get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Would you risk your wife or daughter’s wet tushy to an amateur like that??? I didn’t think so.

2. Demolishing your entire house and building a new house from scratch because you were honestly never really crazy about the place when you first bought it.
Houses are big and complicated, whereas you just learned how to use the Keurig last week, so maybe it’s a little premature to take on building one from the ground up all by yourself. Maybe start with a dog house, or a bird house – something that can’t bring up this truly terrible idea of yours at every family gathering for the next 20 years – and then see where it goes from there…

1. Hanging wallpaper.
Because it’s hideous, and if you disagree then you shouldn’t be making those types of design decisions for a place in which human beings are going to live.