How To Paint A Mirror

Use the sandpaper along the edges and the decorated areas.

How to paint a mirror. Newspaper or thin cardboard is ideal to use. Id also advise applying three or four thin coats instead of one thick coat. Age and transform your boring mirrors with this quick easy to follow DIY tutorial from Kari Caldwell.

You do not want any tape touching the frame. Spray Paint Mirror Frame The second step to spray paint your frame is to tape off the edges. Simply tape off the frame of the mirror or glass doors with painters tape.

This might mean that you have to apply tiny bits of tape to fill in gaps. If your mirror frame is made of wood then you might want to lightly sand the piece with a super fine grade sandpaper to give the surface some teeth to hold the paint better. This isnt my favorite method because I find it messy to clean off the mirror afterward.

Its also one of my all-time favorites from the archives. Remove any hookshardware from the mirror. Holding the paper in place use painters tape to attach the paper to the mirror and cover the remaining piece of glass.

You can use markers acrylics glass paints leading strips artists oil or any medium you would like to use. Tape off your mirror. Those little screw have a way of vanishing into thin air.

If the mirror is rounded use scissors to cut the paper to size. Textured ornate and carved mirror frames are my favorite to revamp because all it takes is a quick and light wipe with a foam paint brush and in an instant its a completely different mirror. Id say up until this point I invested about 3 hours of cutting trimming and placing the contact paper to protect the mirrored surfaces.