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> - Things seem simple from the outside, before you do them for the first time. They are in actuality quite complicated. Even something as straightforward as painting a wall will be hard when you are doing it for the first time. You will make mistakes if you do it yourself. Try to do it yourself only in areas where you can tolerate such mistakes.

I'm not a home-builder but I am a home-owner. Let me add that any work you do yourself the flaws will be about 10 times as noticeable and annoying to you as if you'd hired someone to do the work and it had the exact same flaws.

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I think that depends on personality maybe? I'd rather live with sloppy work I'm proud I did myself than to think I hired somebody and they delivered a bad job.

I think his point was that you don't look as closely to the works others people do than the works that you do. Sure if you know there's flaws on both and they are identical, I agree with you, I would rather it be from myself, but I would most probably not takes as much attention at the works others people do than on mine.

Right, once you do a job you never look at it the same. By hiring it out you never know the details. The same quality of work might look better to you if you didn't do it, but it may be more satisfying if you do.

I think that's a property of having experience doing something, rather than of having done that particular instance of it.

For example: I re-did some grouting in my bathroom, and only after that started to notice the imperfections in other areas not by me. Bits of tile I'd seen everyday for a years, that only after I had experience grouting I realised had grout smeared over them and let to dry.

Attn people trying to sell their homes, this is why we don't buy them- because we saw you decided to do the bathroom yourself and you're an idiot

Well, it's true that homeowners sometimes bite off more than they can chew, but that's not really what I'm talking about. Even if you do a great job, the minor imperfections are going to be very noticeable to you. Whoever did the staircase in my house splashed woodstain on the white paint parts (it's got white for the front of the steps and natural wood on top) and I never even noticed until I did basically the same thing to the side of the house staining the deck.

Also, if your house is in the right area people will buy anything.

Also depends on how much money you saved. A bad job for $200 is not as big of a deal as a mediocre job for $2k.

As someone who has done some home renovation projects, this is so true. For example, if you mess up a grout line when you tile, your eyes will be drawn to it every time you see it.

I assembled my bed before two days and the panel covering the hydraulics is bit off angle because of my mistake. It still bothers me every 5 minutes @-@

Your... bed has hydraulics?

Waterbed?

this just came to my mind https://i.gifer.com/B514.gif xD

Beds with storage under matress can have hydraulic parts (sorry, don't know how they're called exactly) to help lift the matress. Example:

https://www.ikea.com/pl/pl/catalog/products/80404078/

Ottoman

Yes, this is the exact model. https://www.pepperfry.com/taro-queen-bed-with-hydraulic-stor...

And, you will start to notice those flaws weeks-to-years after having completed the work. E.g. after something fails, or a flaw comes up.

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