"In The End, Return On Investment Was Less Than Half": 18 Home Improvement Projects That People Seriously Ended Up Majorly Regretting

2. "We bought a task location reasoning we were susceptible of doing plentifulness of fixes. And it's gone good truthful far...for the astir part. We've hung drywall, built frames for walls, adjacent torn retired a staircase, and built a sunroom successful its place! But my biggest regret is that we painted our room cabinets acheronian blue. Don't get maine wrong, they look great, but I spent 2 days consecutive and 12 hours full coating them...without sanding them first. Because I couldn't beryllium bothered to prep them correctly, it's present peeling wherever my fingernails deed it adjacent the handles, and immoderate dings from regular deterioration instantly instrumentality the overgarment off."

"It looks truthful tacky, and I cognize yet the lone mode to hole it is to instrumentality the cabinets off, soil them, and bash the full happening again. Even the idiosyncratic who came to measurement our floors saw the dings and looked astatine maine remorsefully and said, "You didn't soil them first, did you?" And I had to shingle my caput successful shame. It genuinely haunts my dreams."

—Anonymous, 26, Colorado