How to Cut Glass to Make Your Own Modern Mirrors

As promised, I’m lastly getting unopen to to sharing some of those Modern Bathroom DIYs amongst everyone. Last calendar week I shared my concrete lather dish amongst you, which was the start of many DIYs. This bathroom was a undertaking of love. Many hours, many decisions, in addition to a few arguments. But nosotros ended upwards amongst the perfect modern oasis. Originally nosotros were planning to purchase mirrors, simply in addition to then nosotros got the sentiment to reuse the mirror that nosotros had removed from the onetime bathroom. I dear the modern mirrors nosotros ended upwards with!

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Here (above) is the mirror nosotros had removed. We started past times laying it out on a plywood board on transcend of our sawhorses.

Materials:

Glass Cutter

Glass Cutting Oil

A large aeroplane or slice of wood

Clamps

For Frame: 

3/4″ past times 3/4″ wood strips

Mitre Saw

Router

Minwax Natural Stain

Minwax Polycrylic

Start past times mark out where yous desire to cut. You accept to cutting the entire border at once. We used painters record to grade our lines.

Next, yous postulate to lay downwards a forthwith border to cutting against. We used our large level, simply yous tin purpose a slice of forest too. Clamp it against the mirror, at the border of the table. We constitute that accept the cutting trouble a duo cm away from the border of the tabular array truly worked best.

Next, fill upwards your drinking glass cutter amongst the Glass Cutting Oil.

Here’s a close-up ikon of our Glass Cutter.

Use your Glass Cutter to score the drinking glass along your forthwith edge.

Gently apply fifty-fifty pressure level afterwards yous scored the drinking glass in addition to the drinking glass should suspension off easily. This was our start fourth dimension cutting, in addition to nosotros couldn’t believe how smoothly it went!

On a duo of our cuts at that topographic point was a tiny flake of drinking glass left over. We scored it a minute time, on transcend in addition to underneath. Since it was likewise small-scale to see amongst our fingers, nosotros used wrenches to suspension the extra pieces off.

To brand frames for our mirrors, nosotros cutting our 3/4″ x 3/4″ boards to the right lengths in addition to widths.

We position 45 grade cuts on all of our corners.

Next, purpose your router to grove the cut down therefore that yous tin inlay your mirror. We left nearly 1/4″ ungrooved. We nailed the frame together, in addition to and then placed the mirror right into the grooved section, in addition to attached the mirror amongst mirror clips.

We stained the mirror amongst past times favourite Minwax Natural Stain, in addition to and then used Minwax Polycrylic to protect the finish.

Love these mirrors. Couldn’t accept constitute a improve jibe for our space!

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