Mirror, Mirror: Before and After

Y'all know I have been working on my Dining Room (next up: painting the walls).

One little project I did for this room was to customize a mirror I got for half-off at Hobby Lobby.

I actually liked the black finish, but it lacked the "pop" I wanted in here, and I had visualized something shiny, so I decided to make it so:

Please disregard the patched-up holes in the wall...like I said, painting soon!

All I did was paint it using a dry paintbrush, dipped into metallic acrylic paints (FolkArt Metallic Sahara Gold and FolkArt Metallic Taupe).  I used a combination of the two paint colors with each coat of paint, doing about three coats total.

I didn't bother taping it off, and discovered that a plastic knife wrapped in a paper towel will scrape dried paint off the mirror, easy breezy.

Maybe you've noticed...I just love painting things.  What have you painted lately?



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