Handmade Mirrors, Fish Mirrors, Furniture Shaped Mirrors, Textured Mirrors and Mirrors with Carved Designs Using a Dremel

I've made many mirrors, usually the bigger the better!

See my latest Carved Zebra Mirror.

This fish mirror...sorry it's just leaning against a table 

before I took it to my booth to sell... was made from MDF, it's about 4ft x 4ft.

I carved the designs in the fish using my dremel.

A smaller version done in blue and also carved with the dremel.

I love using my dremel to create designs on all sorts of things

including furniture like this nightstand I carved with the dremel.

Check out the "Dremel" category to see all the ways I use it.

I had a couple of those tall wavy mirrors you can find at IKEA and made frames to match.

For this one, I carved the spirals into the MDF with the dremel then painted the whole thing in off white. After it dried, I washed with brown and wiped off the excess to 

leave the darker color in the spirals for them to pop.

Another tall curvy mirror painted in gold and cream stripes and and I added

repurposed brass knobs for the "studs". 

They are the same knobs I used on the hand painted dresser with studded sides.

This is about a 4ft fish shaped mirror I made.

I used Flexall to create the texture on the body and corrugated

tin pieces for the fins

Another fish shaped mirror with a textured design

He can be hung vertically or horizontally

I used this squeegee that I notched with a utility knife to make the designs 

on some of the fish mirrors. You can use it in texture compound or paint.  

It's basically a large version of those small rubber texture tools you 

buy at the craft store.

In this pic, I was using it to make a design on an Easter Egg Door Wreath.

Huge 8 foot fish mirror, again with a wavy IKEA mirror base.

I used every inch of the 4' x 8' piece of MDF I cut it out of.

Hung vertically or horizontally, he has fun painted orange designs

with vintage, rusty license plates for the fins and an old reflector for the eye.

I love this shape. It's kind of a curvy, inside out parenthesis.

I actually have two of them in my home and I've sold several as well.

I cut it out of MDF and carved all those spirals and dots 

along the edge with the Dremel.

Painted in gold and washed in brown to bring out the detail.

How fun is this mirror?

I can't take credit for the design, I saw it in a catalog (pre-internet days!)

and made my own version.

The majority of my mirrors I get from thrift stores.

Check them carefully for scratches before buying, but you

can find practically perfect mirrors for next to nothing.

For this fish, I cut a mirror to fit from a thrift store mirror. 

This mirror hangs in my living room... and now I see how dusty it is...embarrassing.

It's actually the very first mirror I ever made...awww...and it's big, of course, like 4ft x 4ft. 

I'll have to share how I made this design more in detail one day but

the small swirls are made from paintable caulk, and the large roping detail

around the edge IS actual rope!

 I hot glued it on the edge, then used joint compound to smooth over the rope

 and build up the sides so it looks like it is actually part of the mirror. Painted and glazed.

Terrible, terrible pre-digital camera pics but this was a sun

shape I cut out of wood and used a convex mirror with it. 

I used dots of caulk around the edges.

I describe the caulk process in  my 

Giant Alphabet Letters from Wood Molding post.

A more recent starfish or sun mirror, I used a convex

mirror for the center again and made a design using the caulking dots.

These next two mirrors are pretty funky.

Terrible images, scanned from photos that had been cut out 

around the photo, but I'm showing them anyway!

I cut this one to look like a piece of furniture, a highboy type piece.

Painted it all whimsical and girly, it was about 6 feet tall.

The flowers on the bottom "drawers" were real knobs so you 

could hang things from it.

A "chair mirror"... another oldie! 

Do you remember that children's show Blue's Clues? That's what it reminds me of.

Probably because when I made it, 15 years ago, my boys were very little 

and were watching Blue's Clues over and over...and over.

The last mirror to share was this little Vanity Mirror Makeover

that I made and painted in a fun, girly, whimsical way.

I'm really not a girly girl, I just like painting those types of patterns.

This is what's on the back of the Vanity Mirror :)

Thanks for checking out all my mirrors!

Wait, actually, it's not ALL of them,

click the "mirror" category to see the ones that didn't get included.

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