Mirror, Mirror...

After admiring so many mirror transformations in blogland, I finally found one that inspired me into action.  Janell, of Isabella & Max Rooms, recently did an amazing mirror makeover, and since it didn't involve mitre-ing (is that a word?) corners, I decided, this is the tutorial for ME!

I hit Lowe's for my supplies, and fortunately, didn't need to buy too much.  Some primed MDF for the frame, paint and wood glue.  I decided that I would start small on the project and do the mirror in the kids' bathroom to get my feet wet.  I figured if I could do their bathroom, I would learn from my mistakes and doing our master bath mirror should be a piece of cake, right?

While I didn't have to mitre any corners, I did venture into the garage and used the circular saw for the first time.  I have to admit, I was a bit intimidated by this particular power tool.  It's loud.  It's powerful.  It's sharp.  And it has a lot of safety instructions on it.  But, it saved me from having to have Lowe's do the cuts for me, which was kind of nice.  Even though I had to go BACK to Lowe's to buy more MDF.  It will truly be a miracle if I ever complete a project with a single trip to Lowe's.

Well, on to the fun stuff.  I was able to complete this project within a day, although I did buy the supplies the day before.  But, it's definitely a completely doable weekend project.  I have the frames for my master bath mirror in the garage now, and the only thing keeping me from putting the mirror up tonight is that I didn't pay attention have to go back to Lowe's and get two more pieces of MDF, since I bought the wrong width for the top piece!  Argh!

Here are some before photos of the kids' bathroom:

Ignore the lonely little hand towel on the towel rack...

And the after:

There's that lonely little hand towel again.  Didn't notice it when I was taking the pictures, because I was so excited about the mirror!

What a difference!  A big shout out to Janell for such a great tutorial - I will be waiting for her next woodworking demonstration, "How to mitre corners". :-)

Until then, I will press on with my master bedroom mirror makeover.  Of course, I have to go to Lowe's first.