There is no doubt about it Kingpin you will make mistakes but you will be able to correct most and it is a great learning experience - especially if you use those skills again in the future. Generally even with a few mistakes you will still come out ahead, plus if you actually look at some professional work in most cases you can do just as good a job if not better as I have seen some shocking work done by so called professionals (just like all areas there are good and bad professionals). Reality is when you actually do some of the jobs you find out allot about the house like how un-straight the walls are or the fact that the corners are not 90 degree as they look etc etc
There is also the great feeling of say that I did that - especially when you have done a good job.
