30 DIY Fails That Belong In The DIWhy Hall Of Fame

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I’ve done enough projects around the house to know that confidence usually arrives several hours before competence.

At first, everything seems easy. You watched endless YouTube tutorials, bought a tool you’ll never use again, and successfully removed the first screw. Why would you pay a professional when you’re clearly a natural?

Then you hit a pipe and make your fourth trip to Home Depot wearing the same increasingly dusty outfit.

The people behind these funny DIY fails didn’t necessarily lack creativity. If anything, creativity may have been the problem. These projects feature strange repairs, questionable renovations, and homemade inventions that technically accomplish something, although nobody is entirely sure what.

Welcome to the DIWhy Hall of Fame, where every project begins with “I have an idea” and ends with the house being worth slightly less.

1. “(Machine not operational) $100”

A turquoise vintage sewing machine table with a mirror and decorative items.

2. “Urinal/toilet mod in a Rotterdam Chinese restaurant. The restaurant itself is lovely and the food is incredible! There’a hole in the lid where it attaches to the urinal.”

Toilet with a makeshift wooden cover and a rusty floor stain.

3. “This bad boy is straight piped”

Dirty silver Chevrolet Malibu with a large white pipe on the trunk.

4. “A treasure chest barbecue…”

Barbecue grill built into a wooden outdoor storage box on a deck.

“From the professional moron who brought you the Cat’s Crows Nest, the Pirate Ship Longboard and the Craftlock™… I now bring you the ultimate treasure – a treasure chest that opens to reveal a barbecue!

Because when I build stupid things, I do them as properly as possible – the Barbecue has an air gap of at least 3cm all the way round, and the chest itself is lined with a welding blanket rated to 1,100°c, so the big hot metal thing won’t set fire to the wooden box it’s in.

Slats are not airtight in the lid of the chest, and there is a whopping great ventilation hole at the back, so the whole thing is safe to use – and close while cooking.

Chains hold the lid up, and a separate chain also lifts the lid of the barbecue as you lift the chest lid.

Let hope I don’t burn the treasure…

EDIT: As a few of you have pointed out, yes, it’s short. I plan to put it on a low table to actually cook on. But for photographical reasons, it looks better on the (yes, flammable) decking.”

5. “Load bearing tubs are in.”

Bathroom with bathtub, sink, and toilet in a small space under a sloped ceiling.

6. “Too cheap to fix pool but also too cheap to remove it”

Empty backyard with a circular fire pit and chairs, overlooking a scenic landscape.

“Why accidentally fall into a pool of water when you can fall into a pit filled with furniture and other hard things?”

7. “If it fits, Isits.”

Car crashed into a wall, with the front end embedded in the wall.

8. “This ‘abstract’ billiards table at an Airbnb I was at. As it also turns out, thick globs of hideous paint don’t allow for very smooth table roll.”

Messy pool table with scattered balls and colorful paint splatters.

9. “Cooks belong in the heart of the kitchen”

Kitchen with a stove on a counter and a window showing greenery outside.

“Someone didn’t think they needed a designer.”

10. “Seen in the wild”

A parking lot at night with a blue pickup truck and a gray car with a dildo on its hood.

11. “I woodn’t recommend this”

A trailer hitch with a wooden block and a metal ball on top, on dirt ground.

12. “Customer replaced their passenger seat with a shopping cart”

Large red shopping cart inside a vehicle, blocking the front passenger seat.

13. “Moss in your bathroom…”

Moss growing along a window frame and wall in a room.

“Saw this on Instagram and it didn’t seem to be an old April Fool’s. Someone has spent a long time treating moss and then sticking it around the edges of their bathroom tiles. This is the final product.”

14. “Normally I like modern furnishings, I don’t like this though….”

Modern black walnut shelf with an abstract, angular design on a porch.

15. “Wheelchair made back in highschool with a bike and a shopping cart. It worked but wasn’t comfy…and man did it burn your hands”

Modified wheelchair with a shopping cart basket and a small front wheel.

16. “You can’t make this up!”

Custom painted toilet with tropical glitter flakes, house of candy paint on top.

17. “Drive in some else’s tires for a day”

Smart car with a black sticker of a monkey on the window, under a cloudy sky.

18. “This bathroom floor in a house I found on Zillow. I can’t decide if I love it or hate it.”

Colorful mosaic bathroom floor with a toilet and white cabinet.

19. “Saw this house for rent on Marketplace— pretty sure the death pit isn’t up to code”

Empty room with wooden floors and stairs leading down.

20. “Just what the F”

A black stone with a zipper opening revealing small white objects inside.

21. “Angles I never knew I didn’t want to see”

Bathroom mirror reflects sink and shower area, with towel hanging on wall.

22. “Phil Swift here, introducing Mighty Chair® the revolutionary tool that does it all!”

A van tipped over on its side with two men working on it, a man standing nearby.

23. “I have no words for this atrocity of a mirror”

Free Foam Craft Mirror hanging in a hallway with clothes and stairs nearby.

24. “When one car door handle just isn’t enough…”

Car door with a handle and a window, reflection shows part of the interior.

25. “Kind of speaks for itself. Motley Crue fan art for sale.”

Watercolor painting of two women, one with blonde hair and the other with dark hair.

26. “2 year old house that I am redoing the roof top deck for”

Partial view of a person in work attire standing near a wall with electrical outlets.

“This place is a nightmare. It has been sitting for 2 years after the builder lost his contractor built it himself and can’t get it approved to sell. We found 2 outlets that were buried behind the drywall”

27. “Don’t really know if it fits here but my mom turned our broken kettle into a planter”

A white electric kettle filled with soil and green plants growing inside.

28. “I don’t hate it … but for $40?”

Vintage chair painted blue, purple, magenta with gold embellishment, $40.

29. “Shouldn’t be any issue here…”

Pallet fire pit with logs, wine glasses, and grapes on a wooden table.

30. “When you don’t know plumbing, just pour the floor around it ..?”

Toilet mounted on a concrete block, not properly installed.

Nate Armbruster

Nate Armbruster

Nate is a writer and stand-up comedian living in Chicago. He enjoys finding the internet’s funniest corners so you don’t have to.

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