Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Mirrors


I did a little bit of work on two of our mirrors tonight. Because mirrors are outrageously expensive, we have saved a couple of the original ones and hope to re-use them. There are a couple of things that are interesting about them.
1. The backs are covered in brown paper like framed art is. There is also a sticker on there with the original building company's logo etc. Did the builder make these too? It's bizarre.
2. The frames of them are the strangest material. Almost like a molded plastic but not.
3. They were completely covered in nicotine...and should be used in an anti-smoking commercial.
Here you can see the before and after of the guest bath mirror:













































Sick, sick, sick. Now the finish is back to pre-nicotine state and I'm gonna paint it. It's got a nice creamy white color to it but the gold flecks peeking through kinda bug me. I'm thinking just paint it white and rub some antiquing glaze over it.

This next mirror was originally in the hall/kids bathroom but we are moving it over to the master bath. It is HUGE but strangely not that heavy. It's got to be that strange plastic-like molded frame. It's a horrific fake 1970s brass and I have NO idea what do to with it. That bathroom is all cool gray tones with the concrete countertop and slate shower tile. The vanity cabinet is white and the light fixture is chrome. So maybe white? I did think about silver leafing it but wondered it that would be too much bright silver with the chrome fixture just above it. What do you think?



3 comments:

  1. wow your elbow grease paid off! Looks amazing. What about spraying oil rubbed bronze spraypaint on the larger frame? that would likely look great with your slate tiles. (The whole house looks incredible, by the way :)

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  2. Wow it looks impressive just clean. What about a fun color that stands out . . . like the eggplant. Something fun but timeless?!

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  3. the title to this post should have been "Smoke and Mirrors" hahaha. hmmmm. what color? I don't think silver would be too much. It would be a nice tie in. I like shawn and becky's idea of a pop of color too!

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