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EASY DIY MIRROR FRAME - Home Decorating Ideas
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Apr 15, 2025
In this video, I’m showing you how to transform a plain mirror into a beautiful statement piece with a simple DIY mirror frame! This project is beginner-friendly, budget-conscious, and the perfect way to add personality to your space without spending a fortune. Whether you're updating your bathroom, entryway, or bedroom, this mirror frame upgrade will give your home a polished, custom look—no power tools required! 🛠️ Materials I Used: Trimfinity Polystyrene Mahogany Casing Molding - https://sovrn.co/u91igom Gorilla Tough and Clear Mounting Anti-Slip Double Sided Tape - https://sovrn.co/1oqe001 Stanley Miter Box with Saw Included - https://sovrn.co/1hbcirm 3M 120-Grit Medium Block Sanding Sponge - https://sovrn.co/qql72f8 ALTERNATIVE OPTION: Border Frame Tape - goto.walmart.com/c/1265891/565706/9383?veh=aff&sourceid=imp_000011112222333344&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2FWallpaper-Border-Peel-Stick-Home-Ceiling-Self-Adhesive-Brown-Waterproof-Door-Kitche-Frame-Decoration-Bathroom-Living-Room-Kitchen-Wall-3-9inch-5meter%2F5464969537 📏 Project Time: 1 hr 💰 Total Cost: Under $40! If you love easy DIYs, affordable home decor, and creative ideas for customizing your space, be sure to give this video a thumbs up and subscribe for more!
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hi it's Lindsay Diane from
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dianecor.com in this video I'm going to
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share with you an easy DIY mirror frame
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project if you have a plain builder
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grade mirror in your bathroom that has
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no frame on it and it you just want to
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style it up a little bit this is an easy
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way to go you can do it yourself it's
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only going to take you less than an hour
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to do and it's going to look fantastic
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here's a look at my mirror before and
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after this project costs less than $30
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so let's get into it and I will share
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with you how I made this DIY mirror
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frame so here are the supplies that
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you'll need for this project everything
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here I purchased from Home Depot first
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you're going to need some molding i
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chose the triminity molding it's a
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polystyrene mahogany casing molding
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they're selling it in a 96 inch piece
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it's about two and a quarters inches
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wide i also purchased the Gorilla brand
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tough and clear mounting anti-slip
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double-sided tape this is a permanent
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mounting tape i also purchased a Stanley
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miter box with a saw included of course
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you'll also need a tape measure i
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already had that on hand but you can
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always grab a tape measure at Dollar
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Tree or wherever you'd like to buy one
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starting this project is very very
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simple you're going to take some
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measurements of your mirror measure
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twice cut once always so make sure you
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have accurate measurements of the length
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of your mirror and the width of your
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mirror now when I am cutting the ends of
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my molding I want them at a 45° angle
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this is why I purchased the miter box
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now if you have some other fancy tools I
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do not have them if you already have
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like a table saw or a jigsaw or a
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articulating saw these would be much
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easier to cut but I didn't have any of
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those things and so I got the manual
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hand saw with the miter box it took a
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little bit of doing to get these cut
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through but I was able to do it it was
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not the easiest thing in the world the
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box kept sliding around it was really
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cheap but it's one of those things that
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I just needed it for this project and it
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was inexpensive and it did the job but
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if you have better tools use them
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because you'll get done even faster but
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the the most important part is to make
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sure that you measure your length
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correctly and you cut your 45° correctly
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because you want these to kind of
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seamlessly go together at a really
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beautiful angle you don't necessarily
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want a blunt 90° angle although you
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could do that i've seen other people do
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that but because of the type of molding
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that I chose that was already tapered it
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looked better to have them coming in at
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a 45° angle so use the the slots are
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already there on the miter box to help
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direct you and let you cut them
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perfectly all you have to do is kind of
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line it up what I would recommend is
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that you cut two of identical pieces one
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after another so you don't get turned
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around
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so for the mirror your 45° angles are
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going to be the same for the top and the
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bottom and then for each side they're
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going to be the same now I will tell you
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what I made a mistake on was not paying
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attention to the direction of my molding
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because my molding tapered down it had
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sort of like a high side and then it had
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a low side and when I first cut the
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second piece I had flipped my molding
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around wrong inside the miter box and so
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it didn't line up right it wasn't all
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cascading in like it should have been it
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was like high side low side and high
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side low side and it just didn't it
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didn't work out and because of that I
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actually had to go back and get another
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piece of molding so be very careful if
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you have molding that tapers in pay
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attention to where your high side of the
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molding is and make sure that it's lined
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up properly after I corrected that issue
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as I went I just simply laid out the
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frame on my floor to make sure that
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everything was lining up properly now
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once your cuts are done and your mirror
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frame is laid out on the floor and
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everything looks good the hard part is
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done all you have to do now is stick
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some of the double-sided tape on the
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back of each of those panels now you
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don't have to run it all the way along
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the back i just cut short strips and put
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it sort of intermittently along the back
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of each of them and then I went to the
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mirror the first piece that I installed
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was the bottom so I lined up the bottom
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i made sure everything looked good i
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peeled the backing off of the double
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stick tape and I pressed it right up
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against the mirror and then I went in
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and repeated the same process for each
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of the sides of the mirror and then
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finally I came in with the top piece and
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put that in there now you'll see in the
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video that I found that there was a
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little scratch on the molding and
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essentially it was whatever paint or
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finish that they used on top of this
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plastic I had accidentally scuffed away
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now luckily I did have some like wood
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restore um polish from another project
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and I was able to sort of dab it on
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there to help disguise that but
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definitely be careful um with this it
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does scratch a little bit i haven't had
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any issues with it since we've had this
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mirror mounted for months now and you
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know the kids use that bathroom all the
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time i'm not seeing any new scratches or
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new issues with it so once I was able to
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sort of disguise that little blemish I
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think it looked fine it was also one of
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those things where I was probably the
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only one that was ever going to notice
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that it was there but still it was
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bothering me so I did kind of touch it
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up of course they have those little like
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wood pen sticks that you can touch up
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with but again this isn't necessarily
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wood so you probably could have used any
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kind of paint but because I had that
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finish in that deeper wood tone it
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worked just fine but that was it that's
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all you really need to do to put up this
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DIY mirror frame you're going to make
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sure that you get your miter box and
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your saw you're going to cut your ends
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at 45° and make sure everything lays in
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perfectly you'll use the double-sided
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tape on the back and that's it you just
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mount your bottom your sides and then
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your top and that's it you're good to go
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now if you do not want to have to cut
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molding and you think it's a little bit
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too labor intensive it gave me a little
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bit of a sweat i I won't lie i did have
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to put some muscle work into cutting
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those boards because like I said it's a
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plastic that's compressed down really
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good so it was a little bit hard to cut
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through those frankly I think it was
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probably harder to cut through that than
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it would have been to cut through wood
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but either way it worked itself out but
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if you do not want to have to make any
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sorts of cuts like that they do sell a
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trim tape and you've probably seen it on
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like Tik Tok or on YouTube shorts this
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was the first thing that I experimented
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with so none of my mirrors in my
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bathrooms came with frames when we
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bought the house and so I have been
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looking for a way to start to add some
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frames to these mirrors because they
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really do make a huge difference and now
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the mirrors that I had in my master
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bathroom they were starting to get that
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sort of like black along the sides and
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that is because basically the backing of
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the mirror is starting to kind of melt
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away and that's due to humidity usually
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the shower will do that over time
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moisture gets behind in between the
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mirror and the wall and then you start
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to see that black it almost makes you
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think like it's mildew or something like
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that but it's actually the backing of
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that mirror kind of melting away and so
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I really wanted to hide that i was
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starting to see that along the edges of
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our mirrors and it looked junky to me
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and I I really wanted to hide it and so
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the first thing that I did was I said
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"I'm going to try out this tape." Now
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the tape worked beautifully i did the
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same thing i cut at 45° but I used
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scissors because it's just a little
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piece of tape with a little wax backing
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to it i was able to mount it very easily
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again this has been up even longer this
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is This tape has been out probably now
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for about 9 months or so maybe coming on
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close to a year and I have not had any
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trouble with it starting to peel up or
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anything like that what I will say about
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the tape is
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that the the wood grain on it looks so
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realistic that it's almost disorienting
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when you're looking at this mirror and
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it doesn't have any depth to it it's a
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weird feeling it makes you feel like a
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little bit like you're in a fun house it
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photographs beautifully but in person I
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find it to be a little bit awkward
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because you want to touch it you're
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expecting that it has some sort of
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three-dimensional depth to it and it
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doesn't um and so because of that I find
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that it it it gives me an uh I don't
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know it just gives me a weird feeling
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when I look at it it's just like
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something's off here and I can't quite
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pinpoint it except I do know exactly
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what it is um so I don't think that
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that's something that I want longterm
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and that's why I decided to experiment
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with the molding option for the guest
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bathroom and I really do love it and so
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I'm going to go back and I'm probably
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going to end up removing the tape trim
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and replacing it with the same trim that
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I did for this project but it is an
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alternative option it does I think look
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really good and it does hold up long
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term if you are interested in that tape
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option I will link it in the description
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box below i purchased mine from Walmart
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um it was an easy solution it's
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inexpensive but I find that this method
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with the wall molding was also very
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simple and I think it looks a thousand
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times better that's it for this video i
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will leave links in the description box
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below to all of the supplies I used to
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for this project as well as the
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alternative uh trim tape option if
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you're interested in that and thank you
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so much for watching don't forget to
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visit me at dianor.com i post all about
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home decorating DIYs over there if you
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and I'll see you in the next one bye
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heat heat
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