Our upstairs guest bathroom mirror was plain and boring, it was ugly. The previous owners had installed nice stone tile on the floors, tub surround, and vanity top and then ruined the pretty effect with bright white paint on the walls and a horrible peachy orange paint on the cabinets.
We could only stand that for about a month after move-in before we broke out the paint brushes and painted the walls a warm cream and the vanity a chocolate brown. That definitely made the bathroom better.
All that was left was the enormous blank builder's mirror - which is ugly and plain.
I found a whole bunch of links on internet from bloggers who updated their plain mirrors with trim from the hardware store and I figured that was a fast, easy fix.
So, We bought 20 feet worth of pre-primed wood composite door trim from Lowe's, my dear husband cut the angles on his shiny new miter saw.
Then he used our rotary tool to cut grooves in the back of the trim for the mirror's hanging brackets, so the frame would lay flat against the glass. I painted the trim with two coats of the left over chocolate brown semi-gloss paint from the cabinets, then we just glued it directly on top of the edges of the mirror with Liquid Nails adhesive for mirrors. Simple! And super easy and fast. The longest part of it was waiting for the first coat of paint to dry in our cold garage.
So here's the result my Easy and Cheap DIY Bathroom Mirror Frame.
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