This summer my Mother-in-law let me take one of these old windows that she had. I was way excited about it. At first I sanded it down, painted it blue, and mod-podged some scrapbook paper to it. I added the lettering but didn't know what to put in the two outside windows. Pictures didn't look that great. Then I repainted it AGAIN. This time I painted it black and added some animal print to it. I grew out of my animal print phase so I decided to start over AGAIN. So, I knocked out the windows, sanded it down AGAIN, primed, and repainted the window an antique white. I then took it into a local glass store and they put the mirrors in for $4 a mirror! Side note- it was going to cost over $30 just for mirrors alone at a craft store. Always use the local glass stores for these kinds of projects! For the finishing touch I purchased some oil rubbed bronze spray paint to coat the original hardware. This was so much cheaper than buying new bronzed hardware and it turned out so great- plus I wanted to keep the original hardware on. Definitely worth the $7.
I don't have a picture of what the original window looked like or the animal print phase. I spent a lot of hours sanding this sucker- three different times!
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Before ( I liked this but didn't know what to do with left and right windows)
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After. I LOVE THE MIRRORS. I need to sand around the edges a little more but I need a break from sandpaper!
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