Doors are kind of every where right now. Bloggers/Crafters are making everything out of them. We have been on the band wagon for a while ourselves. Pre-blog we made a headboard for our guest bedroom that is still one of my favorite pieces in our home. The second experiment started off as a possible farm table for our dining room. We were so indecisive on what we wanted we moved on to creating something we actually needed with it. A mirror for our master bedroom. We were using one of those hang over the door mirrors from college. Needless to say that thing is already at the goodwill. Very happy to see it go. Lucky for us my Dad seems to have a never ending supply of doors. We went through and picked out one that would be a good size and that also had a single insert instead of multiple panels. See below....
Talon removed the trim from the outside of the insert of the door. We wanted the mirror to sit flush inside the door panel. I didn't want the fact that it was an old door to be completely obvious. You.know...stay away from being to terribly trendy. Once the trim was removed Talon took measurements and ordered our mirror.
The way our mirror was inserted into the door it did not need to be thick. Therefore, it only cost us $25.00 for our piece of glass (that's total - for the glass and having them cut it).
We carefully placed the glass on the door to ensure it was going to fit as we wanted...
Once done we debated whether or not to add trim around the frame. We decided against it. We both didn't think it was necessary.
After cleaning it really well we used mirror adhesive to glue the mirror to our door.
We moved it straight in to our bedroom. Talon used tape to make sure it wasn't going anywhere. 2 days later and it's still in tact.
Here is the final product....
I must admit that it came out about a thousand times better than I ever thought it would. I think it's the perfect mix of unique and functional.
I especially love that we were able to ditch our old college over the door mirror.
Yah for a 25.00 full body mirror. Those things are expensive to purchase! Happy Monday everyone!
