![]() Once you have your moulding, and your mirror tiles, you’ll need to do some math. We bought four, 8′ lengths of it, and that was just the right amount for our mirror. The bottom side of it is completely flat, and the top side of it has slightly rounded edges. We used some plain, 3/4″ wide, wood moulding. The next thing you’ll need to decide is what kind of moulding you want to use around the edges, and in between each of your mirrors. They’re located in the candle section of store because they’re normally used to make tabletop centerpieces. They were regularly $3.99 a piece, but we scored all 15 of ours during a 40% off sale. We got ours at Hobby Lobby, and they measure 8″x8″. Once you know that, you can shop for your mirror tiles. The first thing you’ll need to decide is approximately how big you want your mirror to be. We recorded a short video about it (which you’ll find at the bottom of this post) but before you watch it, I’m gonna walk you through the process using photos & drawings. I think we had about $160 into our mirror but it's just beautiful and exactly what my dining room needed.Today we’re gonna attempt to show you how we made the Pottery Barn-style mirror we used on our mantel. After numerous coats,we let it dry, and then put some liquid nails on the back of each mirror and popped them into place. Let it dry and you will have a beautiful hand-crafted mirror that looks just like the one from pottery barn, but for much less money. Once we were done this process, we sprayed painted the HECK out of it! We used Oil Rubbed Bronze. Gotta love spray paint. Warning.I think I paid more in shipping than I did for the actual rosettes! I couldn't find the rosettes at my local Home Depot or Lowes, as they only offered clear ones, so I just went on-line and ordered some. We bought plastic mirror rosettes to place at each cross-section, and nailed them into place with cut tacks size #4. Once the grid was measured and drawn on the front of the particle board, we began cutting and gluing the molding (it's helpful to use a mirror as a guide when gluing the molding into place. ![]() The bigger the mirror the heavier it will be, obviously. Be sure to purchase hanging hardware that will support as many pounds as the mirror will actually be. We added the hanging hardware at this point, as we didn't want to be pounding or nailing anything into it with the mirrors on the other side. The back of the mirror looked something like this We also purchased our picture frame molding at Home Depot. We didn't want to fuss with buying two smaller pieces and adhering them together so we paid a little more and bought a full sheet of particle board. We opted to use particle board and had it cut to size at Home Depot. When my hubby made the frame for the mirror, there was a lot of measuring and re-measuring. We ended up putting six 8x8 inch mirrors across, and 4 8x8 inch mirrors down, totaling 24 mirrors in all. We ordered extra in the event that we broke a mirror or some had imperfections. So, we purchased 5 boxes of mirrors (30 mirrors). We wanted our finished mirror to be about 50 inches wide, and 34 inches high, frame and all. They came as a box of 6 and cost roughly $19. ![]() They were precisely 8"x8", with no variations. ![]() Rather than reinvent the wheel, here are the websites we used to aide us in creating this beautiful mirror:, , and. I thought maybe I could find one on ebay, but in my search, I came across a couple of blogs that offered tutorials on how to make this mirror (I thought I heard angels singing). So, I turned to google, and began my hunt for this mirror. However, the large mirror is $699 + shipping - a little to steep for my wallet. I wanted a substantial sized mirror, and had been drooling over the Pottery Barn Multipanel Eagan mirror for a long while. I'm still working on my daughter's bedroom, but have been concurrently redecorating my dining room. ![]()
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