One of my FB friends suggested that I distress the mirror a little to give it more character. I’d always been to scared to try the distressing method, afraid that I’d ruin the piece for good. This time though, I figured ‘what the heck’, let’s try it. If it doesn’t work out I can always paint it over, right?
I kind of got overzealous with my palm sander and rubbed off a spot on the surface, but that’s the beauty of distressing, it can’t look ‘wrong.’ Because I tend to be a perfectionist, I may refinish that patch.
here it is:
what I did:
I ran my palm sander over the corners (and obviously part of the surface), dusted off, then rubbed the whole thing with Minwax stain in dark walnut. I like it. It kind of gives the contours more contours, don’t you think?
Oh look, I found this one on ballard designs. Not exact, but along the same lines…Mine was definitely THE bargain.
image courtesy of www.ballarddesigns.com
AfroMartha 