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LOOK what I do with this $5 DOOR MIRROR | $10 DIY

Feb 27, 2020
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look what i do with this 5 door mirror 10 diy
What do I bring you today? Today I'm going to show you

what

I do with these vertical

mirror

s that you can get at Walmart, I actually think they cost about five dollars. They measure five eighty eight to be exact. They are a

mirror

that you can hang over your

door

. That's not

what

I'm doing with it. I'm going to turn

this

into a decor piece you'll love for under ten dollars. and I mean

this

is definitely one of those decor pieces that can be made to fit any decor style. I'm doing it in the decorating style that will suit my decor here in my house, but you can do this very easily to suit your decor, so let's not waste any more time, let's jump into it and let me show you what I have in mind for these vertical mirrors that you can get at Walmart.
look what i do with this 5 door mirror 10 diy

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look what i do with this 5 door mirror 10 diy...

Well, let's start this DIY with some half crackle. I picked up these people. -art crackle medium from Michael's for about $7.99 with a 40% off coupon. You can get it for around 450. This has lasted me a while. I have used it on several DIY projects. A little goes a long way. This step is definitely optional if you don't do it. You don't like that worn and cracked

look

, you can skip this step and simply paint the outside of this frame to suit your decor. I like the

look

of weathered and crackled paint, so I'll start by giving the outside of this mirror a frame touch. nice layer of this crackle medium, now you're going to want to let it dry well so the medium will dry once it's nice and dry.
look what i do with this 5 door mirror 10 diy
I'm going to take eye color Waverly paint and I'm going to put a nice light coat over the middle as you do this you will see the crackle occur quite quickly and your paint will dry faster than normal. You don't want to put too many coats on it because it will. affects the result on the crackle look, if you want a more intense crackle look you will just apply a very light coat, if you want a lighter crackle look you will apply a bit thicker coat and go over it a couple more times and as always , I'm going to leave it out just for a couple of minutes just to let this top coat dry.
look what i do with this 5 door mirror 10 diy
A couple of months ago, this contact paper was my favorite find. I found this at Walmart for I588. I bought a couple rolls because I loved it. I knew I could incorporate this into some of the farmhouse DIYs because of the look of the wood, how worn it is. I love it and with that in mind I knew I was going to want to use this contact paper in today's DIY. I started by cutting a 12 inch long piece of this contact paper. The nice thing about contact paper is that on the back it has a grid and lines so you can easily count the lines and measure how many inches you need so you don't waste a lot of paper.
Once I did that, I took my sheet and divided it into three sections that were six and a half inches long and you should be able to get six perfect ones. pieces six and a half inches long, the width of this contact paper, then go with the grain of the wood on the paper. I'm going to cut 85 eight strips, five eights are two lines less than 3/4 inches on your ruler to cut 86 and a half strips by 5/8, it took me a total of 24 inches of length of this contact paper for the next part of DIY. I'll use a dry erase pen and a ruler, there's a little more measuring to do, I know.
It seems like you have to measure and cut a lot, but I tell you that the end result is worth it because it is a very economical DIY and the result is incredible. I'm going to start by taking my ruler and starting from the edge. from the outside of the mirror, which is the frame, I'm going to measure at 3 inches and place a mark on that 3 inch mark on each mark after measuring 2 and 3/4 inches for the total length of this mirror. So the first mark is 3 inches and each mark after that you will mark at the 2 and 3/4 inch mark, then from each mark that I made, I will measure two and a half inches and place another mark. is the extent of the measurement, it is not difficult, it is easy to do, it only took me a couple of minutes to measure this and believe me, measuring it will make the result of this DIY perfect and really easy to do.
Again, like I said, from each mark I just measured, I'm going to measure two and a half inches down after I've placed my measurement marks on the top of the mirror. I'm going to repeat the process at the bottom. part of this mirror by making the exact measurements now the fun part begins. I'm going to start placing my strips down and again these strips were six and a half inches long by five eighths of an inch wide and I'm going to start by placing a strip that goes from each of the inside points from top to bottom, so we measured it because it really makes it foolproof.
All the center strips will be aligned, you don't have to worry if they are aligned. Even if one is taller than the other, placing the points I placed makes it very easy to place these strips and is almost foolproof, your strips will come out perfectly straight and evenly spaced, so this is what you should end up with. They are these strips that go through the center of the mirror along the entire length of the mirror. Now I'm going to take and just place these strips on the bottom of these center strips here and I found that if I take these strips and in the corner here this top corner if I place it in the center of these strips here it will line up perfectly everything will be even the idea is to place the strips so that they end at an angle like this so that there is a point here in the middle that is right in the center of the two longest strips here I'm going to continue placing the strips as I did throughout the entire length the bottom and top of this mirror and I'll tell you once you put the first two strips on, everything falls into place and it's very easy to put these strips on.
We use contact paper, so it is repositionable. You can just peel it off and reposition it if you need to. It is easy to do. and I tell you, this project moves pretty quickly once they get into the rhythm of laying the strips. Now at each end of the mirror we have this 3 inch gap that we started with where there is no strip, so I'm going to take a strip and place it right along the edge of the mirror, but I won't do it where the 5/ 8 complete strip in the mirror. I'll do it so I can fold. the contact paper and cut off the excess because it will be too thick and will be out of proportion to the other strips so you can see I'm just folding it along the edge of the mirror so I can take my utility knife and cut it off and this will give it a look more finished and will make the pattern appear to continue.
Now I'm also going to take my utility knife and just along the bottom edge of the frame of this mirror. I'm going to cut off the excess contact paper that's hanging over the edge. I decided to make all the strips a six and a half inch size just to reduce confusion. I feel like it gets confusing when there are too many sizes and you just don't know which ones you're grabbing or you grab the wrong size, so I thought it was easier to cut a piece of strips, lay them out, and cut off the excess. Yes, there is a little waste, but in this project.
I didn't really mind because we only used 24 inches long of contact paper anyway and this will make it so much easier. I realized quickly when I was placing the contact paper strips that I didn't take much care with the color of the outside of the frame, it didn't mix and match with the color of the contact paper the way I expected, so I knew right away that it was going to have to fix this. to darken it a little bit, this is really going to be an easy fix using dark brown burnt Apple barrels and this black.
I thought that if I mixed the two together it would darken this brown to the brown I needed to achieve it. I pulled out that darker brown that's on the contact paper and realized that was the brown I needed on the outside of this frame to seal the paint. I'm going to use this matte Mod Podge because I want to have the ability to clean and When dusting this mirror and not worrying about the paint chipping, I thought that by putting a couple of good coats of Mod Podge on it, it would seal the paint really well on the frame of this mirror and then I could easily dust and clean it and I won't damage it.
I want to let you know that it is okay to spray Windex vinegar on the mirror where the contact paper is, it will not ruin the print on the contact paper, but if you use a cleaner that has bleach in it, it will remove the print from the contact paper, so when you clean the mirror you just want to use water, soap or a vinegar based cleaner now to hang this mirror because I'm going to hang it. In the horizontal position instead of the vertical position I will use these velcro strips by command. These support up to 16 pounds of weight each.
This mirror doesn't weigh anywhere near 16 pounds. I'd say maybe 5 or 6 pounds at most so just to be safe I'll put three strips on the back of this and just hang it on the wall it won't get damaged it's easy to move and will work perfectly as well that this was a while ago, something that was posted on Facebook by a subscriber who challenged me to do this. This mirror was regularly 249 and this subscriber and I wish I knew his name asked me if I could recreate this and challenged me to do it. It took me a while to get to it because I just wasn't sure how to do it.
I wanted to run this, but once I figured it out and knew I could use contact paper to do this, I knew I could do it for under ten dollars and achieve a very similar look and I loved it. I love it. rustic feel of this mirror and as I said at the beginning, this is definitely one of those DIYs that you can do to adapt your decor to any decor very easily by just changing the color of the mirror frame and the contact paper, you can do it very easily . use the marbled contact paper from the Dollar Tree that you get for a dollar and you can do this in a glamorous decorating style.
You can do it in a modern decoration style and elegant in a sleeping decoration style. I hope everyone enjoyed today's video, please be sure. give this video a thumbs up and give this video 6,000 likes because each and every one of those thumbs up really helps my channel grow, it helps YouTube get noticed by putting me on the recommended list by getting those thumbs up so even Next time, I hope everyone has a fantastic day, happy crafting on a budget, and goodbye for now everyone.

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