DIY Best Practices – After DIY

That feeling of accomplishment upon finishing a DIY project can be satisfying for most of us. Meanwhile, unfinished projects or certain parts of the project can easily add stress to your daily life, especially when you see the unfinished pieces laying around every single day 🙁

1. Take a Break

If you’ve spent a long time working on a project, and it looks terrible at the end, you’re going to be frustrated or depressed. Feel free to take a break. You will want to walk away and not think about this problem for a couple weeks or maybe just hours. And that’s okay. Give into that impulse. You will feel so much better and motivated after you’ve forgotten how awful this process was in the first place.

2. Avoid half-finished projects that will always be half-finished.

Finish the unfinished. If you must complete this DIY project, make sure you finish the unfinished part. Get help if it is needed so that the DIY project can be completed even though it might not be perfect

If you happen to realize that this half-finished DIY project is always half-finished, get rid of it. We can always brainstorm ways to make it better or easier to complete OR improve it. If you run out of idea, please go ahead and ask our best friend, the INTERNET.

3. Your DIY Project is Hopeless? Dismantle/Take it out

That’s okay if your DIY project did not meet your expectation. Although it can be really sad and depressing to dismantle or start it over again, but that’s okay.

Keep in mind that you probably learned a whole bunch of things during the DIY project (especially since it was a major failure), and so it wasn’t a complete waste of time.