The brick panels are very easy to cut and install.   We had shelf brackets that we had to cut out holes for - it was a little time consuming, but worked out perfect.  We had very little waste, just cutting the ends off of the edge pieces.   Took only a few hours to install, but would have been way less without the brackets.  We love how it turned out.  Only issue, is it took 4 weeks to ship and it kept coming up backordered and date would be pushed - that was frustrating.   Overall, worth the wait and was much less messy than real brick!