Fence Picket Framed Mirror by Liberty at B4 and Afters Project Blog

This post is the sixth in a series on our Downstairs Bathroom. You can see the rest of the posts here:

I’m not sure exactly why I wanted to do this mirror project. It probably has something to do with the fact that I like to reuse our old fence posts and pickets in any way that I can think of. (After all, I did go to the trouble of tearing down the whole 300 feet all by myself….) It probably also had something to do with the fact that I needed a mirror for the bathroom, and I hadn’t found one to buy that I liked well enough.

And so it came to pass that I decided to frame our bathroom mirror with our old fence pickets. They are vintage pickets. The fence was original to our house, so the pickets had about a 30 year patina on them.

I made the rough cuts, but I needed help getting the corners cut at perfect angles to make tight joints. I haven’t perfected my carpentry skills yet.

BEFORE

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I found a $10 mirror on Craigslist that was just the right size. Because of the way it was made with the bevel of the mirror, I used paint sticks to prop up my fence pickets around the edges. You can see a used paint stick demonstrating this in the picture below. But I ended up using new larger ones- the kind for stirring five gallon buckets of paint.

I needed such long lengths that I had to use most of the picket’s length– and so you can see the staple holes where the picket was attached to the post. At first I didn’t like it, but it grew on me –and now it seems to add authenticity to my vintage framed mirror.