Mirror, mirror on the wall

I really don't like it when projects don't go my way. I get these ideas in my head and I convince my husband that they are going to be soooo easy. And then something happens and the easy project turns to frustration, frustration to anger, anger to me walking away from it for 6 months. Ok...maybe not that long!

I wanted to have a big chunky mirror on my buffet in our dining room. I had a vision of how it was going to look. It was supposed to be easy. We had a huge mirror that we took out of our master bathroom and had stored in the garage. I wanted that mirror cut down to 2 ft x 3 ft. Easy enough right?? Wrong!! Let's just say cutting a mirror yourself without practice doesn't work that well. We had to find another mirror at the ReStore.

To spare you all the frustrating details here's how we finally got our mirror to work. We glued the mirror down to a piece of underlayment from Home Depot. We had Home Depot cut the piece down to the size I wanted.



Because the mirror from the ReStore was just a tad bit bigger than my original size we had to glue the frame on to the mirror itself. My original plan was to glue the frame to the underlayment and if you do that it will work so much easier. More on that in a bit.

So after gluing the frame to the mirror we had to hang it. I wanted the mirror to be angled and not just hanging there on the wall. I used picture hanging wire (Is that the technical name?) and picture hooks to get this monster up. Because the underlayment was so thin we didn't want the screws holding the hooks to go through to the mirror so we used another small piece of wood to hold the hooks. Does that make sense? Hopefully it does.

In the original plan the mirror was just going to rest on the buffet and the picture hooks and wire were not going to be needed. This mirror weighs a ton and when the frame was glued to it all the weight was resting on the frame. That would cause the frame to come unglued from the mirror. So we had to come up with plan B. And this worked. Now all the weight is on the screws in the wall that are in studs.

Here it is all pretty and finished.

I love it!