Last week, I showed you this octagonal mirror I found at a thrift store for $3. It wasn’t in bad shape; it just needed a simple and quick paint job to transform it.
Before
The gold was looking dated and tired. Nothing a little spray paint can’t fix.
First, I masked off the glass with some painter’s tape and paper. When I spray paint something flat like this, I prop it up on top of a black plastic flower pot so I can access all the edges.
I sprayed it with oil-rubbed bronze paint, which reads kind of brown, but also has a nice metallic sheen to it.
I probably should have been more generous with the tape when I was prepping because some of the spray got under the paper. That’s OK because a little bit of nail polish remover takes it right off. (Off of glass, that is. I’m not sure how it would work on other surfaces.)
