EASY MIRROR CHANGE

Hey there!  It’s time to do something with the mirror I now have.  If you remember when we gave Kristin’s bathroom makeover we swapped mirrors.  To see her bathroom makeover you can click here BATHROOM MAKEOVER.

Before I get started, I want to tell you about a challenge I am joining in.   Two blogging girls gathered up a group of us for a Thrift Store blog hop challenge, Tara Stilettos and Shiplap and Emily LeCultivateur are the host of the hop.  The rules are each one purchases an item or items from a thrift store, garage sale, flea market, or find something in someone’s trash pile, we take what we find and create something we can style in our homes.  I will have all the participates names and photos at the bottom of my page.

Back to the mirror..  I know this wasn’t in Kristin’s trash, but if I didn’t swap with her I know our daughter too well, it would had been tossed in the trash!  I think it qualifies with the rules of this challenge.

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Here’s the mirror I started out with, it looks brighter than my furniture, plus to me it’s to matchy-matchy if I were to painted it the same color as the dresser.

In place of the white frame I changed it up with some sanding and paint.  Let me show you what I did to achieve the look.  First, I sanded off some of the white paint from the frame.

I used 80 grit sand paper , removing the amount of paint I wanted.  It wasn’t hard at all, but boy was it ever messy!!

I left most of the white paint in the cervices.

To remove all the saw dust I used a damp cloth.

I like the looks of Waverly Antique wax on wood I used it instead of a minwax stain.

I applied the wax with a baby wipe.

To give the frame a white distressed look I used Waverly chalk paint in Plaster.  The inspirational look was the candle holder I am showing below.

I dry brushed, lightly, the paint onto the frame.  I did this with a light feather motion and made sure not to swipe the paint brush in the same area too much, I wanted a rough look.

It turned out the way I hoped it would.  It looks close to the candle holder.

To seal the frame I used two coats of Minwax Finishing wax as the directions stated.

After the wax was good and dry I placed the mirror back on the dresser.

Before…

After!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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