What's the most elaborate solution you've built for a problem a five minute fix would've solved

[DeepInlet]

Everyone's got at least one, a full pulley system for something that needed a single hook, a custom bracket for a job duct tape would've handled in seconds. Confess yours and whether you'd honestly do it exactly the same way again.

[Terry_33]

I built an entire shelf bracket system out of leftover wood purely to avoid buying one three pound bracket from the hardware shop down the road

[Lucy_35]

Spent an entire afternoon building a custom cable management system for three cables that could have just been tied together with a twist tie

[Plateau45]

Rigged an overcomplicated string and pulley setup just to open the curtains from bed instead of simply getting up, took a whole weekend to build

[LordGaz90]

Wired a smart plug and an app just to turn a single lamp on and off, when the actual switch was less than a metre from the sofa the entire time

[Daedalus84]

Constructed a small ramp out of spare timber for the dog rather than just lifting her the eighteen inches onto the sofa myself