When Closets Attack!

I believe I've mentioned before that my bedroom closet is a great big hot mess.  The dream is something along these lines...

wouldn't this be nice? 

And to be fair, while the reality is something slightly less organized, I am getting there, albeit slowly.  My closet doesn't affect anyone but me, so I'm allowing bits and pieces of it to come to me whenever it does, and spending my focus right now on the guest bath and guest bedroom.

A couple of weeks ago, though, I paid a visit to the small north Texas town of Burkburnett, and while I was there, I stopped at an indoor city-wide garage sale type of event to poke around.  It was cute in that Tiny-Texas-Town kind of way, there were lots of really nice people, and even live music in the center of the auditorium, which was nifty.  And I found a pair of cute little mirrors - about 15x18" - for $8 for the pair!

 I had them sitting on my kitchen counter for two weeks before I figured out what to do with them - well, with one of them anyway.  Into the bedroom closet they went!

Ooh, ahh. 

 It was...okay.  I actually cleaned up this portion of my closet quite a bit - removed some storage bins I wasn't using that I'd set on top of the dresser and then ignored, for example (remember that dresser?)  I also put the dresser up on bed riser feet so I can get to my socks without throwing my back out (it's a little small, but it'll do until I find the perfect one for this space ).

But it wasn't...quite...

THERE!  

A nicer, newer basket for my hair things and scarves, and some gold paint for that mirror.  I painted it on, then wiped the edges down to "weather" it a bit.

~*sparkle*~

 Now to
(a)  figure out what to do with the other mirror like this, and to
(b)  do something about the rest of the closet...

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Reflect-o-Beast (Before + After)

Around the same time I was painting that lamp, I was also working on a large mirror frame.

ooh, ahh.

In October of 2010 - eight months ago! - I found a big, ugly, heavy, plastic-framed mirror from Goodwill for $7.99.   I promptly took a whole slew of "before" pictures and stuffed the thing into the garage to await the day when I felt like fixing it up.   Of course,  I lost all the "before" pictures, and didn't realize it until it was too late take more.  It was similar to this one, and probably also a dresser or vanity mirror in a previous life;  this one at least has some nifty curves:

from Reloved Rubbish

The decorative "woodwork" on mine, on the other hand, looked like it came out of the fake-wood paneling from inside a van in the 80s:

I wonder what used to be in the center??

That sucker came off the second I had the frame apart and found that the glass didn't extend all the way down past the decorative panel - it was the exact length of the rest of the frame, as I'd hoped. Yay!

And you know the rest.  Like the lamp, I hit it with some white spray-primer, and then silver paint.  This time I used a bit of black and gold as well, to make it look old and roughed-up, and slightly more like actual metal.

enjoy the green, it's going away soon

And here it sits, in my back hallway, waiting to be hung up in its new home...


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