There are a zillion tutorials out there on how to repair a wall, for sure.  What makes this one different"
Well.  Heh.  
Back there in our now-fancy closet, after putting up that beautiful WE Cork wall and then putting the newly extended shelves back in, and then putting clothes on said shelves, two shelves totally refused to stay up.
Now normally this wouldn't be a major issue, well, if the gorgeous cork weren't gracing our walls.  Right"  Of course.  Easy repair.
Well, sort of.  The shelf brackets are aligned with each other going up the wall.
But because that glorious cork is glued onto the drywall, the failing shelves were shredding the cork on top of tearing apart the half inch drywall. As such, yeah, I was hugely stressing over what to do, how to fix this....
I mean, I knew what needed to be done.  I was simply totally tweaky about actually completing these repairs so it took me, yikes, I think a pair of weeks to gird myself, measure a million times cut once multiple times in my head to formulate the plan, get in there, and truly do it.
Beeeccaaause, obviously.  This was scary.  Right"!
Cutting was involved.  Required.  Cutting cork.  Cutting drywall.  Not panicking.  Shoring things up.  Not panicking.  Replacing everything.  Panic-free.
Now, from the initial installation, I knew how easy peasy it was to trim the cork with a utility knife.*  Su...