Make Your Own Custom Framed Mirrors

A few months agone nosotros didn’t convey whatever mirrors on the entire master copy flat of our home. Who knows what variety of nutrient (courtesy of my kids of course!) was inward my pilus when I left the house. We had guests come upwards in addition to remain that had to run upstairs to practise their makeup inward the morning. Well, we’re making upwards for it now! We already added a mirror inward our beautiful entryway, in addition to at nowadays nosotros convey 1 for the hallway! This is also business office of our amazing Modern Handmade Home series, thence don’t forget to banking concern check out the other amazing blogger projects at the bottom of the post! 

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Sometimes I dream upwards or depict projection ideas inward my caput in addition to both my hubby in addition to I are skeptical. Ok… Russel is skeptical almost of the time, lol. But this time, I similar the idea, sketched it out, in addition to simply wasn’t certain how it was going to plow out. Luckily, it looked amazing in addition to I didn’t convey to acquire amongst programme B!

If you lot desire to brand your ain Custom Framed Mirrors here’s what you lot need:

• Ryobi Pin Nailer


• 1 x 1/2″ strips of pine


• 1/4″ x 1/2″ strip of pine


• A rectangular slice of mirror


• Speed square


• A router table


• A mitre saw


• Wood putty


• Sander


• Paint or woods stain
  
  (we used Black Coal paint) 

How to Make Your DIY Custom Mirror:

You involve a slice of mirror drinking glass to start. You tin laissez passer the sack purchase apparently rectangular slice if needed. Ours was the leftover pieces from the mirror nosotros removed inward our old bath renovation. If you lot convey a large slice of mirror in addition to desire to learn how to cutting glass, role this tutorial.

The root affair you lot involve to practise is cutting business office of your 1 x 1/2″ woods strips for the drinking glass to sit down in. The easiest agency to practise this is to fix a router tabular array thence that it cuts a 1/4″ indent into the side of each woods piece.

Next, mensurate your mirror to create upwards one's hear the length of frame you lot need. Cut the root border of your frame at a 45 grade angle, thence mensurate the length of your frame on the within border in addition to brand simply about other 45 grade cutting at that spot inward the contrary direction. The within border should last the length of your mirror (say it’s 12″) in addition to the exterior border should last the length summation 1″ because it’s a 1″ board in addition to you’ve added mitres to extend it (so it would last 13″). The photograph below shows what the iv frame pieces should await like.

This is where the beautiful pin nailer comes into play! If you lot don’t know what it is, it’s a tool that shoots out pivot nails. They are modest nails in addition to aren’t equally rigid equally brad nails, they are perfect for a projection similar this where nosotros don’t involve a lot of strength.

We added woods mucilage betwixt all of the joints, shot a pivot boom through, in addition to thence clamped it until it was set.

Once the frame is clamped in addition to set, your mirror should agree perfectly inside. Next nosotros grabbed a thinner slice of 1/2″ x 1/4″ pino in addition to used the mitre saw to cutting pieces at diverse lengths – starting amongst opposing 45 grade angles.

We set out all of the pieces until nosotros were happy amongst the design. When nosotros went to practise the pieces amongst 1 immediately edge, nosotros simply set the woods slice on overstep in addition to drew a grade onto the woods telling us where to cut.

Another perfect role for the Ryobi Pin Nailer! Use it to attach all of those blueprint overlays to the frame of the mirror.

Finally, nosotros used woods putty betwixt all of the joints in addition to thence sanded them downwardly when they were dry.

You tin laissez passer the sack pigment or stain your piece. I wanted a deep dark colour, thence nosotros chose to use dark paint on ours.

What practise you lot intend of the finished mirror? I LOVE the blueprint inward existent life thence much to a greater extent than than I liked it on paper.

Perfect identify to banking concern check your pilus earlier you lot piece of occupation out the house!

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