Mirror frame on the upstairs landing and dresser in progress

[cimorene]

Here's the mirror frame I finished painting with acrylics a while ago! It's built out of trim nailed to the wall overlapping the edges of the mirror that was there (with a narrow piece of wood trim padding in between to hold the trim the right distance from the wall), because it's had a chip in the corner since we moved in. Likely my last project with acrylics. So stinky!!

Here also is the dresser that goes in that alcove. It's been sanded and vacuumed and puttied and then painted with this minty shade of milk paint. This is about as much pigment as you're meant to add to the milk paint, according to instructions, although I've added a bit more in the past. It gets too thick and you have to add more water as well and that starts to weaken the binders in the paint, which are all contained in the powdered mix we started with. You can always make your own milk paint and replace some of the white chalk, which makes it opaque, with a darker pigment when you want a dark color, but the mix we've been using already has chalk. My issue is that in the poor light we're gonna have in winter this current color will likely read as white, so I'm going to have to add another, greener coat.




And finally, here's Tristana helping. Notice the cute little footprints inside the dresser. I've already had to add another coat of paint because she left dirty footprints on a drawer front the first time.

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

that is a really cool decorative frame for the mirror! you guys are so creative with the home design. It's so fun to read about your projects.

[cimorene]

Thanks! 😊 We luckily have very similar taste and love each other's favorite colors! Mine is turquoise - like the kitchen - and hers is muted warm green.

[viggorlijah]

Holy crap that’s gorgeous

[cimorene]

Thanks! ❤️

[cimorene]

Besides traditional folk art, look up Bloomsbury style interiors and Amy Balfour mirrors, if you're interested, on Pinterest. That was my aesthetic reference.

[viggorlijah]

do you use mood boards to plan out home projects? I use pinterest to collect things, but I'm trying out mood boards for the two next projects, the bathrooms (identical except in shades of blue) and the hallway.

[cimorene]

Well, not really. I don't use that term, anyway. But when I'm in the planning stage I browse lots of related images in the direction I was thinking, and usually save them to a new folder to look at together, then narrow it down by removing the ones that I don't necessarily want to use. Then sometimes I sketch when I'm going to make something or when it's a whole room, or make scale models with one of those virtual room planners to check furniture fit and then use Photoshop to approximate the idea I have in mind. Then I ask Wax, my mom, and my sister what they think, usually (Wax also gets forced to look at the idea board stage).

I guess that meets the definition of mood board after all.

[torachan]

I love that mirror frame!

[cimorene]

Thanks! ☺️

[phosfate]

Beauty!