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How to decorate a mirror: 5 sure ways and 30 original examples

If you want to update the look of a mirror or decorate your interior with a beautiful decorative element, our tips will come in handy. We suggest buying a new frame for a mirror, it is interesting to decorate an old one or create a frame from scratch. Also in the selection of ideas for decorating the mirror canvas itself. Get inspired, choose the right option and boldly transgress to the transformation!

1 Buy a new frame

The easiest way to decorate a mirror is to simply buy a frame for it. You can choose a bright or, on the contrary, discreet option - any one will update the appearance of the mirror. This method is suitable if you only have a mirror sheet or a mirror framed, but the frame itself is either bored or has lost its attractive appearance.

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2 Decorate an old frame

It is not necessary to replace a tired frame with a new one - it is enough to transform it. It's a good idea to paint the frame a bright or deep shade.

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You can complicate the task and depict a whole picture on the frame. Its complexity, as well as the execution technique, depends solely on your artistic abilities.

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Another, easier way is to glue decorative elements to the old frame. They can be shells brought from vacation. A mirror in such a frame will perfectly fit into a marine interior or become a bright accent in the bathroom.

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You can even decorate the frame with wine corks or painted twigs and cones - you will get a spectacular home decoration for the New Year.

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A boring frame can be given a spectacular vintage look. To do this, it is sometimes enough to go over the painted surface with sandpaper to create beautiful scuffs.

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A new wooden frame can be aged in a more complex way. First you need to brush with firing, sand the surface, remove dust and smooth the soft wood sheets to get a beautiful textured finish. Then you need to cover the frame with paint and immediately wipe off the part with a damp cloth so that dark wood fibers show through. The result is such an original decoration.

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Another interesting way to decorate the frame is to upholster it with textiles. If the upholstery of the furniture and the frame match, you will get an interesting “kit” for the interior.

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You can also decorate a flat frame with tiles or mosaics. It is better to choose a different tile - a layout resembling a patchwork will come out.

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You can take a ready-made mosaic or use stones, glass pieces and even mirror fragments as it. 9Make a frame with your own hands the frame can be completely do-it-yourself. To do this, as a rule, it is necessary to choose a solid base, mark the contours of the mirror canvas on it, and decorate the space remaining around. The final step is to fix the mirror in the frame with glue.

Here are interesting options for wooden frames. In one case, tree cuts are used, in the other, branches. The result is interesting decorative elements in eco style.

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This hanging mirror is made with rope. Another stylish piece of decor in the marine theme.

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The “floral” design of the mirror also looks interesting: you can either decorate the finished frame with flowers or stylize the shape. Ideal for a women's apartment.

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These frames are made… from PVC pipes! For their manufacture, the pipes were cut into rings of even thickness and the pieces were glued together into a figure resembling either the sun or the same flower. The result is a mirror in the spirit of the now fashionable Art Deco.

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4 Paint a mirror

You can decorate not only the frame, but also the mirror itself. The best way in this case is to paint a mirror. For these purposes, you will need a special stained glass paint.

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If you are not good at drawing, you can still decorate the mirror using a stencil. Suitable patterns are easy to find on the Internet.

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The drawing can be present on one part of the mirror or located along the edges - in the latter case, it will play the role of a frame decorated with an ornament.

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5 Apply stickers

Vinyl stickers are a safe way to decorate flat surfaces. Mirrors are definitely no exception.

You can choose from small stickers or a large canvas. For example, here the whole mirrored door is occupied by a motivating inscription. Stylish, beautiful and energizing!

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Yuliya Sedova

Do-it-yourself mirror decor: materials, techniques

One of the ways to give a house a personality is to decorate it with self-made things. A wide field of activity opens up when decorating. The most ordinary item can be turned, at least into an original one. For example, mirror decor turns an ordinary piece of glass into a stylish and original thing.

Content of article

• 1 Basic principles of decorating mirrors
• 2 Examples of decorating a round and oval mirror
  • 2.1 From sticks or paper tubes
  • 2.2 From plastic spoons
  • 2.3 From plastic or cardboard rings
  2.3 From plastic or cardboard rings 26
• 3 Decor on the mirror
  • 3. 1 Transparent stones
  • 3.2 Hand-painted decoration
  • 3.3 Beaded mirror edging
• 4 Beautiful mirror frame
  • 4.1 From a mosaic

Basic principles of decorating mirrors

DIY mirror decorating is made using a variety of materials, including those that are usually sent to the trash can, and if bought, they cost very little. For example, tubes from old newspapers or magazines. In some cases they are used without staining, in others they are dyed. It is more convenient to paint in the form of a spray - it is applied in an even thin layer, staining occurs many times faster than when using a brush. You can also use broken chinaware, a mirror, colored glass, shells, pebbles, rhinestones, glass drops, buttons, ropes, plastic bottles, branches, wooden planks and sticks, plastic spoons and other strange things.

All this wealth is usually glued onto transparent silicone. It is sold in hardware stores, is available in small tubes or larger cartridges for a construction gun. It is more convenient to work with a gun - it is easier to control the effort and get the right portion of glue, which is problematic with an ordinary tube.

Please note that silicone is acidic and neutral. Acid until it dries, it smells very much like vinegar and you can only work with it in a well-ventilated area. Neutral silicone sealant does not smell like anything, but is more expensive. Still acidic, until it hardens, it can corrode the paint that is applied to the decor. When buying, pay attention to the setting time. This is the time during which you can still fix something, move it. As soon as the glue begins to polymerize, nothing can be done - it is covered with a rigid film. The average time for the formation of a surface film is 10-20 minutes, but there are also more “long-lasting” compositions.

There are two decorating techniques:

• The decor is outside the mirror. In this case, a base is cut out of thin fiberboard or thick cardboard, which is larger than the mirror. In shape, it can be any - round, square, arbitrary shape. The decor is glued to the base, after the glue dries, a mirror is inserted into the finished frame.
• Mirror decoration on the edge. In this case, the glue and all fragments are applied directly to the mirror surface.

It seems that there are slight differences, but the design looks different in different techniques. The second allows you to get an openwork decor of the mirror, which, as it were, is illuminated by a reflection.

Examples of round and oval mirror decorations

First, let's talk about decor that is built around the mirror. The circle is beautifully decorated. You can make a sun, a flower, a star, etc. out of it. Lots of options. Most often, the decor is also built in the form of a circle, but it can be a square, a multi-beam star, or any arbitrary shape.

From sticks or paper tubes

You can decorate a round mirror with chopsticks for Chinese food or tubes twisted from sheets of a newspaper or magazine. If the tubes are rolled up from a newspaper, they will have to be painted. Made from thin, glossy magazine-printed paper, it can be used without dyeing. Sticks can also be painted, you can leave it as is.

To paint, find the acrylic paint of the desired color in a can, place the tubes on a sheet of waste paper, paint on one side from a distance of 20-25 cm. After drying, turn over all tubes / sticks and apply paint on the other side.

Next, you will need silicone. Apply glue to the back of the mirror. You can - with a short strip (so that you don’t have time to freeze while you lay out the rays), you can drop it. If the back of the mirror is not protected by anything, the silicone must be neutral. The acid will dissolve the amalgam and the mirror will be damaged. Put the rays on the glue, wait until the glue grabs. After 24 hours, you can safely hang a unique mirror in place.

In the same technique, but using ice cream sticks and twigs

If you add mirror drops to the rays, it turns out very beautifully.

With other materials, the look is different

The mirror can be with or without a rim - your choice. Instead of sticks / straws, you can use strips of glass, wood, plastic, etc.

Plastic spoons

In this variant, a circle of a larger diameter is cut out of thin fiberboard or thick cardboard. how much more - choose for yourself. Lay the mirror in the center, circle it with a pencil or marker. The decor should not protrude beyond this line.

We take plastic spoons, cut off the handles from them, and glue the scoops around the perimeter of the mirror. There are three or more such layers. They look like petals. When gluing, try to place them very tightly to each other so that the substrate does not shine through. They can be set straight or slightly rotated to one side.

They can also be dyed for better effect. The paint can be with a metallic effect, you can paint the entire decor in one color or in different ones.

After the frame is ready, glue the mirror to the center on the same silicone and admire it. After drying, you can hang on the wall.

Using the same technique, you can decorate the mirror with buttons, shells, cut into circles with branches of different diameters. They even use trailers and models of cars. They are painted in some unusual color and also arranged in a circle.

The decoration of this mirror is toy cars

You won’t immediately understand that the decor is made of wooden clothespins.

Variations of the two described techniques

Something similar can be done with a rectangular mirror. In any case, it will look good with branches and buttons cut into circles. The rest of the options are unlikely.

From plastic or cardboard rings

You can also decorate a mirror with rings. They can be cut from plastic pipes or glued from cardboard. The sizes of the rings can be of the same diameter or different, their width is about a centimeter or a little less.

If the rings are made of cardboard, you need a base to fix them on. For these purposes, a plastic cover of a slightly smaller diameter than a mirror is suitable. We will glue the first row of rings to the sides of the lid. The second and all subsequent ones are attached to them. One of the rings of the first row is additionally fastened with a screw with a ring. We will then hang our mirror on it.

After the whole structure is glued, take the sequins and glue them on the ends of the rings. The work is painstaking, it takes time and patience. It is easier to hold and move sequins with tweezers and better with thin tips. This mirror decor is universal - in winter it is associated with a snowflake, in summer - with the sun.

Plastic pipe rings are glued using the same technology. But they do not need a base, as they themselves are quite rigid. From them we assemble a ring of the desired diameter, glue it. When choosing an adhesive, make sure that it is designed for plastic. In fact, there is a special glue gun and glue in the rods for it. It is much more convenient for them to work, but you can adapt to ordinary silicone.

The edges of the rings do not have to be glued with something. They look good on their own. But in this case, they must first be processed from bumps and burrs that remain from the saw. If they were cut with special scissors, there will be almost no irregularities, but the edge will still be straight, and the rounded one looks better. The ends are processed with fine-grained sandpaper. Then they are wiped from dust, degreased (wash in water in detergent, wipe dry or dry). Only after that you can start working with glue.

From a rope

We take a thick rope. It can be synthetic or hemp. For larger sizes, you can even use a rope. From cardboard or fiberboard, we also cut out the base, which is larger than the size of the mirror. A thin layer of glue is applied to this base, the rope is laid out coil by coil.

In this case, it may be better to first glue the mirror in the center and “wind” the ropes around it. So it turns out recessed in the frame.

Decor on a mirror

It is not always desirable to make a border around a mirror surface, and the decor that is applied to the mirror turns out to be more voluminous due to reflection. Therefore, basically another rule applies here - there should be free space between the decor elements. These techniques will allow you to decorate a square or round mirror - almost no difference. The main thing is to choose the right pattern or decoration method.

Transparent stones

The simplest technique is to pick up the decor you like and place it along the edge of the mirror. At first, you can decompose without gluing - so that you can correct something, move it. When the result satisfies you, we apply a drop of transparent silicone to each fragment and return it to its place.

This mirror design looks best with the use of transparent and translucent stones. They can be colored, transparent, plain.

Painting decoration

Special materials are needed for this work. You will need:

• Glass contour. This is a transparent or colored composition in a tube with a sharp spout. It is applied to glass and mirror in the form of a thin strip. Usually outlines the contours of the picture, which is why it is called so. The contour on glass can be with roasting and without. Naturally, at home it is easier to use those without firing.
• Stained glass paints. They differ from ordinary ones in that after drying they become transparent. They are applied with brushes or squeezed out of the tube into the contour, after which they are distributed using the same brushes, swabs, cotton swabs.
• Glitters. These are shiny small fragments in the form of hexagons, stripes, circles, etc. used in decoration. Can be added to paints, varnishes (including for nails).

You will also need the usual materials: alcohol for degreasing, cotton wool, cotton buds, brushes (preferably with artificial bristles), toothpicks. You will also need a drawing that you are going to transfer to a mirror, carbon paper, adhesive tape.

Place a carbon paper on the mirror, put the drawing on top, fix it with adhesive tape, trace the drawing along the contour. Carefully remove paper and carbon paper. We take a tube with a contour and circle the applied lines. Nearby is a solvent, cotton swabs and toothpicks. They remove the flaws that appear during work.

Next, the contour must dry. This takes several days, and you can speed up the process with a regular hair dryer (not a building one). After the contour has dried, we take stained glass paints, pour a little bit into the contour, spread it with brushes, fix it with toothpicks - so that there are no unpainted places inside the contour. After the stained glass paints dry, they become transparent. If you wish, you can add glamor with the help of glitter - sequins.

A mixture of the two described technologies looks very good - painting and stones. One example is in the photo above. The work is painstaking, but it turns out very beautifully.

Beaded mirror edging

You won't be able to use ready-made drawings in this technique - there are a lot of accidents and it is far from always possible to predict the result. But it's important to have a picture of what you want to see (or a prototype photo) in your head. This work will require transparent glue (the same silicone), multi-colored beads, stones and other decor that you plan to use. You will also need masking tape and brushes, toothpicks.

Stick tape on the mirror at some distance from the edge. It separates the finish from the rest of the surface. The border does not have to be exactly, it can be of any arbitrary shape. The width of the decorative border is usually not very large, since the wide one looks rough.

We apply silicone to the separated section of the mirror surface with a snake. At one time we spread a small piece - a strand of 5 cm. Quickly distribute the glue over the entire surface. You can do this with a piece from a plastic bottle. We pour beads on a sheet of paper, and from it we scatter over the glue. We straighten with a brush, toothpicks. Don't use your fingers, it's hard to clean. We apply glue further, continuing the decoration. As soon as you have gone around everything along the contour, remove the adhesive tape and leave to dry.

Complete drying time depends on the silicone, but is usually 72 hours or more. Then nothing will spoil your work, and you can hang it neatly in a day.

Some practical advice. If you want to get diagonally displaced stripes of different colors (as in the photo), apply glue in the same areas. So you get a clearer separation of colors and the work will move faster. If the borders should be blurry - with a smooth transition of color - lay different colors of beads on different pieces of paper, sprinkle it slightly shaking from side to side. Well, immediately after application, you can fix everything with a brush or a toothpick.

Beautiful frame for a mirror

This method of decorating a mirror has already been described - take the decor and glue it. But not on the mirror surface itself, but on the frame. The frame can be made from the same piece of fiberboard, or you can buy a mirror in a plastic (for example) frame.

From a mosaic

To create a mosaic, you will need pieces of mosaic, you can use fragments of ceramics or colored glass, mirrors.

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