We’ve since found a new spot, under the breakfast nook plate wall where we hope we don’t run into any more mirror cracking instances. If you ask me our mirrored console is still at risk and I frankly don’t think I have the appetite to go through this ordeal one more time if any of the mirrors crack again. I know it is still considerably cheaper than buying a new piece and that the mismatched drawer fronts are only noticeable when you are up close. $32 ,$17 for the new mirror and labor + $7.50 each for the new knobs, later here we are! Yes I ended up spending $32 to fix one drawer of my $40 mirrored furniture find! And that too ended up with 2 mismatched drawers! The guy at the store suggested that he had stick on mirror knobs that I could use if I did not plan on getting the hole drilled for the mirror front. For the plain mirror too to get a hole drilled in the piece was going to be $$ extra. As I expected the beveled mirror replacement was close to $150. Whatever, after a dismaying few tries I gave up and took the cracked mirror drawer, now all clean, to the Sterling Glass store. My project called for perfectly straight edges. I was so inspired by my big win with step #1 that I went to Michaels the next day itself and got a piece of mirror on clearance (it was chipped on the corner) and tried my hand at cutting the mirror with a glass cutter.īiggest fail ever! Even worse than my lace chandelier. Step #1 pry the glass off the drawer front = Success. So I dropped the beveled mirror idea at the start itself, instead settled for mismatched drawers one beveled and the other regular, hoping that the difference wouldn’t be noticeable. Another discouraging fact was that they are more expensive.
#Zgallery vanity table cracked
Since the drawer mirror had beveled edges, I had to go the glass cutting shop route if I wanted to replace the cracked piece with a beveled mirror.
#Zgallery vanity table how to
I was sure that it was going to cost me an arm and leg to get the mirror replaced from a glass cutting shop so like a true DIY’er I researched online, watched every possible video on Youtube on how to cut glass/mirror and finally came up with a plan. On top of that he even gave me a deadline to fix it. The space was tight but it looked so good that I again ignored more warning bells, this time both from B and my dad.Ī week later, as monkey #2 and I were walking hand in hand through the upstairs hallway she gently bumped into the mirrored console’s knob and boom, the drawer’s mirror front cracked! Just like that!Īs it was my idea to move the table upstairs B washed his hands off fixing it. Then I had a brain wave, why not move the mirrored console to top of our stairs? We didn’t really have a landing per se but it could work in the hallway. It stayed there for a year and half until we got a bigger console table for the spot. We placed it in our family room under my mom’s mural painting, which we knew was only temporary as the scale was off. Knowing that we’d never get around to fixing the second table we left it at the seller and came home with just the first piece. The lady suggested that we could call the manufacturer and ask them to send a replacement or something. Two of the mirror pieces on the second table’s legs were also cracked. Alarm bell number 2? Well I ignored that one too. Did I hear a warning sound inside my head? If I did I chose to ignore it. The second table had a cracked drawer front, which the lady said happened when she tightened the knob a little too tight and warned us against doing the same. She even was willing to throw in an extra, the console table’s twin that had a few cracked mirrors. The seller was very sweet and the console table was perfect.
Maybe he could spot something that I might miss in my excitement of snagging a great deal.
Couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the price $40! I was pretty sure there had to be a catch so took B with me to check it out. All that changed when I spotted a mirrored console table listed on our local FB yard sale group. So for the next two years I satisfied my mirrored furniture craving just by looking at what was available in stores, taking a picture of the piece and sending it to B with a sad “I wish” emoji. Like a lot of you I too was enamored by the glamorous style of these pieces but the price……ouch, was way out of my budget.
Side tables, dressers, console tables, sideboards you name it they had it. Flashback to 2012 when mirrored furniture was all the rage and every home decorating store worth its name carried it in some form or the other. Remember the mirrored console table from my plate wall post? Well, that piece of mirrored furniture has a long back story.
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