Recycled Dresser Mirror

Work is underway in my guest/sewing room. I am finally reclaiming my lost space that had devolved into a storage heap! While doing some rearranging, I moved a dresser that formerly occupied that room to the living room. Since it was placed under a window, I couldn't use the mirror that had been on top.



I decided to repurpose it as a wall mirror in the guest/sewing room, but felt it was lacking something when I hung it up. I decided what it was missing was a shelf underneath, so I decided to build one using some materials I had on hand...a 3/4 inch thick board, and some cheesy plastic brackets that I found at Goodwill a while back.



To start, I measured and cut the board to about eight inches longer than the length of the bottom edge of the mirror.



Then I sanded the rough sides of the board as well as rounded down the edges to make a bit of a softer line.



This is how it looked when I finished sanding.



Next I painted the board and brackets. When painting the brackets, I left a little bit of the underlying gold showing through for a more aged look.



Here it is all put together. It was painful for me to share this photo...you can see in the mirror reflection the mess I'm still working through to reclaim the room.



Here are a couple of detail shots. First, the top of the mirror.



And where the shelf and mirror join.



All in all, not too bad for a freebie project, don't you think? Work on the room is going slowly because of some extra hours at my job, but it is coming along. I'll have lots of innexpensive project ideas coming out of this re-do, so I hope you'll check in with me again soon.

Until next time,
Sheilla

This post is shared on "Show and Tell Friday" at Cindy's gorgeous blog, My Romantic Home. You should check it out....lots of great ideas to discover! My apologies Cindy! Due to a cut and paste error, I am late in crediting your party! So sorry!!!