IKEA - MONGSTAD Mirror Hack

5 Materials

$60

2 Days

Easy

This mirror was really fun to do! It was my first time doing an abstract piece based off a photo a client gave me.

This IKEA mirror shockingly only ones in one colour - this black dark brown colour? - which isn’t really the style right now. My customer wanted it to suit her beach vibe master bedroom! And her vision was based on a Pinterest photo. So here is my shot at recreating it 🤗🤗

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Before - customers mirror

Sand and tape off

I rough sanded With 150 grit orbital sander. And taped off the mirror so no paint or products got on it.

Try to see what client wants

CLIENTS PINTEREST INSPIRED PHOTO

Something like I have never done before, layering paint, thinking paints, antique oil rub ect. So I was nervous I wouldn’t be able to grasp what she wanted.

Mixing paint

The first thing I did was decided what colour to get the base charcoal colour as seen in the photo.

I mixed country grey varathanes chalk paint with coal black fusion mineral paint to get a Smokey grey.

and than I used a pure white paint THINED with water, to make a bit of a white wash.

I layered the two

I added the Smokey grey and covered the entire mirror, one it was dry, I added my white washed pure white paint by gently swiping my paint brush in long motions - with very little amount on my paint brush.

I also used varathanes antique Smokey glaze over top of the paint layers.