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Turn a discarded window into one of today's hottest decorating accessories: a window mirror.
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Nancy Golden, host of DIY's Decorating and Design, shows how to make a mirror from an old window frame.
Materials:
Window (try looking behind the antiques store -- or in the trash -- for this item)
Heavy-duty work gloves
Heavy towel or other cloth
Hammer
Needle-nose pliers
Mirror tiles (have them cut to fit at a a glass store)
Glazing caulk
Two eye screws
Picture-hanging wire
Toggle bolts (optional)
- Cover the window with a towel and, wearing gloves, smash the glass with a hammer from the front of the window.
- Turn the window over to the back side and pick out all the remaining glass and glazing.
- Use a pair of needle-nose pliers to scrape out any glass shards and to remove the glazing points, the small metal brads that held the glass in.
- Turn the mirror face down and drop in the mirror tiles, attaching each by applying a bead of glazing caulk.
- Attach eye screws and picture wire to the back for hanging, and hang either from screws driven into wall studs or from toggle bolts inserted in the wall.
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