No Mirror? No Problem

I recently found a cute little antique vanity that was missing a mirror. That was okay with me because I had other plans for it. Here it is with the missing mirror.
[Warning, lots of pics ahead]

It is replacing the piece below which I felt was't right for this area.

It went to another area of the house, dang, it seems like I change furniture more often than underwear, ahem, just kidding.

Originally the mirror frame area was much taller, about twice as high, sorry no before pic. In the next picture you can see where we cut it down right above the side curve areas. DH also had to add the little curved part that was missing on the right side, he's so talented :) I'll be touching all of that up so hopefully it won't show.

This piece is in my dining room so I thought revising the frame part would make it look less like a vanity and more like, well.....a cute little piece of furniture. 

So anyway, I had my DH cut a piece of beadboard to fit inside where the mirror would normally go and I added a pretty basket of flowers applique.

I painted it all with Miss Mustard Seed Milk Paint in Linen.

I added some glazing to give definition to the basket of flowers but it just looked muddied instead, so I just went with the all linen look.

I added these pretty glass knobs from Hobby Lobby.

Then I just duct taped the insert in place (dang I love that stuff)  and here's the final look.

I love putting appliques on furniture, you can make it 'all yours' by doing that.

 
 This little iron birdie is waiting for the 'bookworm' I think.

I love these two little birdies, the basket is wire and so cute.

Yep, I think I like it. This little vanity repurpose also has wheels, you can kind of see the one on the back leg.

The coffee filter wreath which I made a year or so ago will get a special treatment too. So stay tuned for that.

 My wonderful Eulalie (Miss Mustard Seed named her's Eulalie so I'm goin' with it)  Cow Picture (God Bless Cindy for her wonderful talent) got a new home on a larger wall and that wall is getting some love too next week. Eulalie was just too grand to be squeezed onto this small wall, she said she needed to spread out a bit!

Click HERE to go back to 2013 Top Posts

Have a day blessed by God, Teresa
Linking to.....
Sunny Simple Sunday
Tweak It Tuesday
Wow Us Wednesdays
Creative HomeAcre Blog Hop
Be Inspired Friday

I love beadboard

I have found that beadboard covers a multitude of sins as shown in these before and after pics of my home.

My bathroom before beadboard

 And after beadboard

The laundry room before beadboard

And after beadboard

Diningroom during beadboard wallpaper application

 And after applying beadboard wallpaper

I am currently working on putting the beadboard wallpaper in the guest room and I'll post pics when I get done, I'm basically beadboarding the entire house LOL.