Covering A Mirror With Paint

As a designer i see the same thing with clients and art nobody wants to place a chair or lamp where it might partially obscure a large painting on the wall behind.

Covering a mirror with paint.

Chalk paint drys very quickly. Clean the window with windex to get rid of any dust dirt and grime. If not use a utility knife and or a 5 in 1 painter s tool to cut out the glazing and then remove the glass. Pop out the glass panes if the glazing is super old and cracked it should come out easily.

Paint the surface of the mirror with. Mirrored window with spray paint instructions. The mirror appears to be made up of square tiles apply a repeatative pattern that pleases you in each square. You could also buy or make a painting or tapestry that is slightly smaller adhere it to the center of the mirror.

Place the mirror atop newspapers or a tarp and rest the mirror flat otherwise the paint may run a bit if you spray a bit too heavily. Cut extra wide molding to fit around the mirror and paint or stain it. Use thin overlapping bursts of paint starting slightly before the mirror and ending slightly beyond it. Mom took and old mirror i bought at a thrift store and spray painted over lace paper lettersshe is clothedpaint dryinganimal print rugtapecraftycanningmirrorbedroom cut out paper letters and tape them onto a mirror.

Tape off mirror with painter s tape for easier clean up in the end. Hold the can 12 to 18 inches from the mirror for best results. Transparent paints allow you to see. Ignore it style away there s an inclination when your walls are covered with paper mirror basically anything that isn t paint to avoid covering them up too much.

You can embrace them and make them look like an intentional part of your design plan. Cleaning the mirror with standard glass cleaner such as windex helps remove dust dirt and oils so the. Synthetic or natural fiber. Here are a few ways to make those mirrors work for you.

Paint the mirror surface with a thin even coat of surface conditioning primer applied with a low nap paint roller. Use a glaze and dye combination to mimic the cloudy look of old mirror glass with eroded silvering. You have two paint options for painting glass. Paint entire mirror frame 2 3 coats of white chalk paint allowing dry time between coats.

30 minutes is the approximate time for each light coat to dry. Painting over a mirror preparation. Then you can paint over them and peel the letters off once the paint dries. Allow the primer to dry for 30 minutes.

Then attach it to the mirror using glue or spray adhesive. You could use it to display framed art work or photos hang them on the mirror with heavy duty double faced tape.