DOING your own DIY can save you a lot of money, but some people make it look easier than others.
One woman shared how she was been inspired to give her pain floor a makeover - but unfortunately, it .
user @ tmassey13 revealed she was inspired to recreate the viral checkered floor trend - however, her let her down.
In the now-viral video , which has been viewed more than 3.4milion times, Taym filmed the process of transforming her home before the epic disaster.
The 31-year-old, thought to be from , kickstarted the makeover process by applying tape on the floor and creating the square print.
Once happy with the layout, the ambitious DIY fan chose which squares she’d in red - and the ones that would be left with the original flooring colour.
After carefully applying paint with a roller, Taym - who painted dozens of the squares - said she waited for it to dry fully before removing the tape.
Bu despite the results looking promising at first, the young woman was mortified when she saw the final disaster.
Not only did some of the red paint come off along with the tape, but there were also huge gaps in-between the squares - and it was a far cry from the checkered print she had wanted to create.
Sharing the jaw-dropping flop online, Taym said: ”I thought I was painting a cute checkered floor...
”Instead, I unlocked levels of delusion.”
The horrified woman - who had no idea where or why things had gone all wrong - went on in the caption.
”I also let the paint completely dry before pulling up the tape.”
Many people were quick to flood to comments - and it seems that it wasn’t just Taym who was clueless as to why it turned out to be a diasaster.
”I see the issue and I’m not sure of a solution,” wrote one of the viewers.
Someone else chuckled: ”Trick; if the tape looks right than it’s wrong.”
”My brain isn’t comprehending how to do it correctly if this is incorrect,” a third was baffled.
But there were also a few of those who shared how to fix it - or how to do it properly next time.
”The way I did it was do stripes horizontally first then create vertical lines after and bam checkered,” a fellow DIY whizz said.
”If you use 2 different colours and then peel the tape away, you have a boarder where the tape is,” another adise.d
”If you don’t want a boarder you have to tape inside the squares like others have said.”
