The Mirror

How much would you pay for this mirror? Seriously.

Here is a daylight photo from today (notice the pashmina decor):

And here is the "Before" mirror. This is after Tara waved her wand - moved my rug, moved the CD rack, all the furniture in this room ... and voila, I have a french provincial style room. Kind of.

Here is the work in progress. The first challenge was finding the right size and shaped frame at Wertz Brothers antiques showroom. We found an awesome 70's style Drexel mirror for $39.99.

Oh yeah.

And of course we tried to negotiate -but they don't negotiate at all there. So we paid full (!) price. Then, Tia Tara researched the exact color online at Benjamin Moore, I swung by the paint shop 5 minutes before closing and grabbed two sample sizes of the color we wanted (4.95 thank you) and some gold paint. We did two coats of blue and then added the gold trim when the second coat was wet.

Note the shiny black chairs behind me. That is the next story.