HGTV Magazine Wants to Help With Your DIY and Decorating Fails

Want to be featured? Magazine editors are sharing real home decorating dilemmas in an upcoming issue.

September 14, 2020
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HGTV Magazine is looking for people’s home DIY and decorating mistakes, little goof-ups and total fails for an upcoming article.

Have you tried to hang a gallery wall and it just looks off-balance? Stained a piece of furniture or banister and it’s splotchy? Painted a stencil on a wall and messed up the pattern?

The article will include advice and solutions from experts. If you’d like to have your DIY dilemma considered for participation, please email fixmyfail@hearst.com and include your first name, city/state and a full description of the problem — including what happened and what it looks like.

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