Refreshing a Thrift Store Mirror

In a recent Thrift Store Finds blog, I showed you this little sun mirror that I bought. It was only $2.99 and it had "refresh me!!" written all over it:

I knew just the place for it - we've had this glaring empty spot on one of our walls for about 5 months now. It needed something. Real bad. Get a look at this:

.  oy  .

But before my little sun mirror could be put up onto the wall, I wanted to give it some fresh paint to make it look a little more cohesive with the other things that were in that area of our wall. Also, I hate the color gold.

Here's a step-by-step of how I gave this mirror a face-lift:

.  start off with a clean mirror  .

.  cover and tape off the glass  .

.  spray paint entire mirror with 3-4 coats of white paint.
.  let dry completely between coats!  .

.  paint all the small rays blue  .
.  add some blue paint around the inner ring  .

.  paint the inner edge of inner ring  .

.  remove tape while paint is still a little wet  .

.  fin  .

I hope you enjoyed this little project. I'm becoming pretty into the idea of painting things white to give them a super clean and crisp feel. Are you refreshing any old or thrifted finds with a coat of paint this spring?


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