how to make a LARGE floor mirror frame | DIY WOOD FRAME

Alright, so many of you have been asking about these

large

mirror

s I have in my house and asking how I put them together, so today I'm going to show you how to build one yourself. It's super easy. step by step, so let's start right, this is what the

mirror

looks like. These are closet mirrors. You can find these closet mirrors at home or on the Facebook marketplace and they are cheap. You can get them for almost nothing. um, I have these. free so get yourself a closet mirror, you can find it anywhere, stop, it looks funny, lift your leg, yeah, yeah, what are you doing?

Let's just throw away the skeleton that was wrapped around this mirror and build a new and better one, I think. I've changed this mirror a couple of times, you know, I'm not very happy with the finish. What I really like about having

large

mirrors in your house it

make

s your room feel bigger looking at this wall when the mirror is off I feel like everything is sunshine. approaching us because the mirror helped give it like another door to another dimension, okay, first step, I will gather all the materials, I need all the tools that we will use, I will let you know the measurements and what you need. to build your own mirror okay the materials you'll need for the

frame

are three two by eight by eight three one by three by eight stain is optional and then you'll need a sheet of ply

wood

.

I like to take the mirror and just measure. all off the mirror so obviously closet mirrors can come in different sizes so just check your mirror to

make

sure what size it is and then change the measurements of your mirror so I'm going to grab my pieces of

wood

and go. in just an inch on all sides because that is the ledge the mirror will use to rest on. There are many different ways you can

frame

your mirror, one would be to have the top piece, the top center piece overlapping both or you can make your cuts at an angle.

I want to try something a little simpler and easier to put together, so I'm going with the straight cut. Now that we have all the measurements of our wood, we're going to take the wood outside and cut it, so okay now that I have all the wood cut, I have them laid out because I'm going to start staining them. I selected this wood because of all the knots and the worn look because I want to have it too, I want it to look like an aged frame so I might beat it up a little bit more but as you can see I wanted to have all these knots here and then a little bit of this destroyed.

I could take a hammer to beat it up a little more, but once I stain it, it'll start to give it a really cool character and aged look, so I want to give it more of a farmhouse style. A lot of people use a brush to apply the stain, but I like to have a rag, it gives a nice clean finish and a good coat, it doesn't put too much on the wood, so let's stain, let's bond the wood using these holders in L, these are old, I've had them. out there, so I thought it would be good to use these.

If you don't have an L bracket to attach the wood to, you can just screw in screws this way and that will hold the wood together and keep the mirror in place. It doesn't slide, you could just take a bolt and screw right here and that would help your mirror slide as well, but to save extra time this will do everything it can to keep your mirror from sliding and will attach the wood for additional support , but remember that we have the plywood that will go on top and that will be the additional support and then we even have these, so if this seems a little weak to you, we have a lot more to hold it together, so now we're just going to add all of these L brackets and now that we have the brackets in place holding the wood and the mirror so the mirror doesn't slide, we're going to add the plywood on the back to give it that extra structure and hold it. um you know hold it in place now we just need to screw all the sides and secure it in place let's see if you got it it was about half an inch um it doesn't have to be absolutely perfect it's the back and it's just holding it attached, so we're going to try to make it as pretty as possible, but just throw it on, screw it on and let's move on to the next one, which is the border around the frame, we're going to put it on and then I'm going to stain it, so I'm really excited about that one.

Part of it is because I normally use my yellow gun, my nail gun. The entire project can be done with a drill. I wouldn't recommend a screwdriver, but if you want. You can use a hammer and nails, yes, just make new holes if necessary. These screws are not that long. All you need is enough screw to go through the plywood and a little through the wood, and you can put in as much as you want. I want, I think we do three on this end, four on the longer end, um and yeah, it just gives you extra security, um, but yeah, I mean, look, it's all set, it could be done like this, if you want to finish it like this. , then go ahead.

We're just going to add some embellishments around it just to give it a little more texture, but honestly, this might be the end for you guys. Okay, now we are going to place the support on which this entire mirror will sit. Do you want to measure it? from the top of the wood, don't worry about this plywood because it might be crooked, so just come off the top and that will level it out. If you haven't seen them, they are amazing, I use them for everyone. my heavy wall art um I think it can hold up to 300 pounds but basically this one is pretty much the same as the one above but it's the opposite of this one so what it's going to do is the one on the wall is Like This one and the one with the mirror are like that and you slide them into each other and it connects and then there's no way for it to fall because it's a heavy mirror.

I mean, how heavy do you think this mirror is? I do not know but. it is a very secure mount yes literally 300lbs or more these are amazing just put it on a stud don't put it on your drywall with some type of anchor because those anchors don't work put it on a stud and it will hold a A huge mirror like this easily, but we'll show you and we'll start and show you how we put this on because I know this is usually a tricky part that confuses people and they want to know how you got it. on the wall why not one more there you go, okay, so we're not going to put it on the wall yet because we're going to trim our border.

I don't think Mike is totally on board with this idea but I think it's going to look great like we said before you could just put it on the wall as is but I haven't done that yet and it's new it's a new look for me and I want to try it, so yeah, we are. I'm going to put the molding in and then stain it after that and then it will be ready to go on the wall. It seems that it is not held very well. What's going on? Let's anchor this a little better. Seeing that it's just a little bit, it's moving just a little bit, move it, which is more than we want, it just has a little bit of give and we don't want that, so Mike is going to countersink a pre-drilled hole for himself, it's.

All this is, it just helps you guide the screw, yeah, instead of just improvising it, so we don't want the screw to show, so it really gives it a nice look if you pre-drill the holes. There you go so Mike is just going to add that to the rest I mean just make three more I guess so now that you know what a countersink is I have a little story I want to tell you guys I went to the store and I was buying a countersink for the first time and I didn't know where to find it, so I asked for help and said, well, do you have any countersinks?

Where can I find one? and they said, "Oh, yeah, it's in it." On your way back you'll find it in all the bathrooms and stuff. I thought that's a strange place to put it as some kind of drill bit. I thought, "Okay, I walk to the back of the store and there I find a bunch of countersinks but their countertop sinks like when you turn on the water, you turn on the faucet and their countertops sink. I started laughing. I thought he thought I totally meant a kitchen sink, not a drill bit, so I ended up going alone and found it myself, but I thought it was kind of funny because it sounds like a countersink, maybe because it is, it's the same thing, but yeah, your robotic finger, yeah, I recommend, I recommend putting a screw on these two pieces in the middle, yeah, yeah Now it's not like that, it doesn't have that wobble, yeah, okay, maybe I just wanted to clarify that I was right, I needed those screws because I said we don't need them now so that's what I was trying to say let's jump through that yeah let's jump guys next step we have all our cuts and we're just going to use Savannah's nail gun.

Yes, you can use nails or even screws, but we didn't want it to be too obvious that we had screws. all sides of this mirror so the nails are a little bit smaller with the nail gun okay so man are you going to leave that like that? No, I mean, it looks amazing as is, but we'll finish staining the trim around the mirror, what was that? I don't know, I couldn't think of what it was, so we're going to take it outside, take out this giant mirror, stain it, finish it, and then throw it at the wall.

I think it's too big, it's too big, baby, oh. It's a

floor

mirror, okay, Mike, what's going on? You got the measurements wrong first, look at this big mirror, I mean have you seen anything so magnificent? Okay, wait, don't look at this, wait, we can't put it on our wall. on the

floor

okay so yeah it was my fault so I totally thought our wood was this wide like me yeah that looks like our wood no way but it's actually almost twice as wide which is oh my God, oh my word. Our original wood for the mirror is much smaller and I thought I had the right wood, so instead of putting it on the wall we're going to have a floor mirror and you know, I always wanted a floor mirror, oh, great.

This sure works for you guys, so okay, so you might be getting a little scared because if this falls on someone, it's going to cause some damage, so we're going to fix it to the wall still with strong reinforcements, yeah, so really. like. thick cables and things that you can attach to the wall, yeah, you know, like if you attach your stove or your dresser to the wall or a bookshelf, kids or someone pulls on it, it's not going to fall on anyone, so let's do it . some crazy reinforcements for the mirror, but it will be a floor mirror, which is fine because I love floor mirrors, I really know, I think she had this playing the whole time, you know it worked, it worked well, I mean , this thing is like touching the ceiling I didn't know it anymore, I knew something was friend, you know what eight feet is like, make sure you measure from the floor to the ceiling and then measure your mirror, you would think you would do that first, but yeah , but the only reason I didn't do that first because I thought these were the exact pieces we had on the original mirror, so I thought we were completely good and weren't expanding on some of the things.

I took the back of a hammer and it looks like a rabbit, it looks like a rabbit prince, rabbit teeth, yeah, and then, and then, like a bear, like freshly scratched, that's what I did, I just scratched it with a knife and this thing, a lot of animals have been everywhere, I just wanted to look. Like it's a little beat up, you know, yeah, I mean, I like it, even though it looks like it belongs in a cabin, I just can't believe this was just the closet mirror and you can turn it, yeah, like that, we hope you do. you just get a good idea of ​​what you can do for the cost of this, whatever the size of these boards, they were Savannah, they were 12 each.

She got three of them, so that's 36, it was 12 for the total finish, which was three boards for four dollars, yeah. the stain was five dollars so that's 53 so on top of that there's plywood and then whatever you can get for the mirror whether it's free or I don't know what mirrors you can buy online dude this thing is heavy, I feel like we have some California redwoods. in our house, I know it was a super fun project, but I think it worked out pretty well. I got my big mirror. I deceived them. It is actually a floor mirror.

Well guys, we hope you enjoyed the video. Let us know if they are. I'm thinking about doing one of these things and if you do let us know how it goes yeah and if you can't forget to hit the like button for this guy there's no tick tock no wait I want to show how they take it out. This thing on my show got you out