This is not that kind of post.
It's this kind of post:
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Ohhh yeeeeeaaah.
Bow-chica-preetty!
I'd seen those pins a while ago, and had squirreled them away to a board of 'nice to have' things, but didn't think I'd get around to it anytime soon.
I thought that the nook on my porch which houses the porch couch would do very well with horizontal mirrors to open up the recessed-ness of that corner.
Enter Public Surplus with 4 hot pink long mirrors.
$1 and they were mine! Oh Public Surplus, how I love you; let me count the ways.....
They had no hanging hardware so I added a sawtooth hanger to each. I drilled itty bitty holes in preparation for the itty bitty nails.
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The nails were so itty bitty I could not hammer them in without hitting and smooshing the sawtooth bracket. A spare flathead bit helped me isolate the force of each hit to the just nail head.
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| perma-schmutz'd hands |
On the back of one of the mirrors, I worked out the measurements for where to put screws into the wall.
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| Anything worth doing is worth over-engineering |
It took a bit of muscle and a few choice words to accomplish the drilling and screw sinking in my concrete block walls. But insta-reward when the mirrors went up:
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| spot the creepy item |
Ahhhhh......lovely!
Goes well with the new art piece on the wall. As a girlfriend said recently when she walked onto the porch 'this is what Anthro is trying to do'. Bestill my beating heart......she sure knows how to flatter a girl.
-Lindsay
Awesome! What a great idea for making your space look bigger. And what a deal!
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