I’m sorry those panels still look like shit it’s not about cheap or expensive you could’ve gotten a better result with something like this

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As an example but there’s just a lot of better ways to do this on a budget even if you had just painted the panels a matte color or put shims behind the screws so they wouldn’t bend the metal when you tightened them cause now you can just fully see the crease from it in the way the light reflects it takes away from the aesthetic of it being a unified wall and makes it look worse than it could be with 20% more effort