$3 mirror

I love this mirror.  I saw it at big lots for $2.98.  It was so clearly ugly, but I saw some potential there. I loved the vintage-ish style and the shape and size of it.  It was very feminine, but I have two girls, so I figured eventually I'd get to use it.  And for less than three bucks, why not?

So I took it home and taped it up and got to painting.  I chose black because I thought it would look pretty awesome and you can tell in the background that it was around Halloween that I did this project, so black was sort of on the mind.

Here is my taped mirror.  I painted it and then afterward i realized that you could still see the gold in the mirror from the back side of the frame.  So, I pulled the back off and took the mirror out and painted the back and nailed it back together.  Now it looks like this...

I cannot express how hard it is to keep that mirror clean while having such vein children.  

Soon I think I will revamp it again.  I want to decorate the nursery for our daughter Riley and I think this mirror would look amazing in grey.  What do you think?  Her room will be a pinkish grey color with white, grey and cream accents.  Maybe if it's in there it will stay clean. ;)