Cheap and Easy Home Decorating with Mirrors

Here are 5 cheap and easy solutions for common mirror projects, from how to frame a mirror, to how to make a decorative mirror and how to hang it.

#1. How to Make Cheap Decorative Paneled Mirrors?

This cheap and easy idea for home decorating with mirrors turns a cheap dressing mirror into an elegant paneled mirror ideal for decorating your home's entryway. You'll find a dressing mirror at your home improvement store. And this article will show you how to install a hanging frame behind the mirror, as well as glue craft picture frames over it to give it a beautiful, paneled mirror look. Then home decorating with your mirror will just be a matter of hanging the mirror horizontally instead of vertically to create the illusion of a faux French window. See the pictures and instructions for home decorating with mirrors by creating a decorative paneled mirror.

#2. How to Make a Framed Dressing Mirror?

Cheap and easy home decorating with mirrors is especially important in smaller bedrooms, where a mirror can create the illusion that the space is larger. Starting with a cheap dressing mirror, the kind that you glue to closet doors, you can make an elegant framed mirror that can hang on the wall instead. This article will show you how to build a mounting bracket behind the mirror and how to make a simple mitered framed. See the pictures and instructions for home decorating with mirrors by making a framed dressing mirror.

#3. How to Add a Frame to a Rusty, Old Bathroom Mirror?

Cheap and easy home decorating with mirrors has the most impact in a bathroom, where the space is smaller relative to ordinary rooms. Old bathroom mirrors, which are mounted on the wall, are difficult to remove and expensive to replace. But even if you have rusty edges on your old mirror, you can give that mirror a modern makeover using floor molding to build an elegant frame. Here are the instructions for home decorating with mirrors by adding a frame to a rusty bathroom mirror.

#4. How to Make a Charming Hanging Mirror with Key Hooks?

Cheap and easy home decorating with mirrors is especially fun when you use a few inexpensive items to make a charming hanging mirror with key hooks. I used a simple mirror set in a frame and hung it on a metal ring chain made for hanging light fixtures. I then screwed in hooks to the bottom of the frame for hanging keys, and my mirror was finished. See the pictures and instructions for home decorating with mirrors by making your very own charming hanging mirror with key hooks .

#5. How to Hang Heavy Ornate Mirrors?

Cheap and easy home decorating with mirrors becomes a challenge when it comes to ornate, store-bought mirrors set in heavy, exquisite frames. I bought a stained glass mirror for my living room and devised several hanging tricks to mount it and make sure its stays mounted forever. See the pictures and instructions for home decorating with mirrors by learning how to hang heavy ornate mirrors safely .

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