DIY A Perfect Dupe For An Expensive Pottery Barn Floral Mirror

Have you ever fallen in love with the perfect mirror for your home but just couldn't bring yourself to pay what the shop was charging for it? This DIY dupe is a solution to that problem, particularly if you love flowers! Inspired by the Pottery Barn Hydrangea Rectangle Mirror, this DIY version created by Instagrammer honeybuilthome is a fairly straightforward project, and the result is completely breathtaking.

Start with a plain mirror that you'd like to upgrade. Using Alumilite Casting Resin and floral molds such as In The Garden from Prima Marketing, create many, many flowers. The exact number will depend on the size of your mirror. You can work out approximately how many you'll need by laying out a sample section, counting how many you'll use, and multiplying that number by the total frame measurement. Remember to stack some flowers on top of others to achieve a rich, three-dimensional look all around the mirror. Fortunately, the resin dries within 30 minutes, so you'll be churning them out quite quickly.

Once dry, paint them with Rub 'n Buff Gold Leaf to achieve the same effect as the Instagrammer. Measure how wide you'd like the floral edging to be, and tape a guideline on the mirror along the inside edge, where the flowers will go. Begin gluing the flowers down using polyurethane construction adhesive. Once you've made it all the way around the edge, your DIY floral mirror is complete. Decorating with mirrors becomes so much easier when they're this gorgeous!

Creating a DIY mirror in this way is one of the most unique ways to incorporate resin art in your home, and the fun doesn't stop with flowers. For a different take on this look, play around with different mirror shapes. Round mirrors are well-suited to flowers and look utterly adorable with floral edging. For a more whimsical approach, try the Trahome Irregular Asymmetrical Wall Mirror, which feels as natural as a pond in the woods.

Instead of going grand with gold, choose a neutral shade, such as ivory, for a classic mirror that enhances other elements in the room without overpowering them. The beauty of creating your own border is that you can adapt it to suit the room it will be part of. Pick out two or three pastel shades for multicolor flowers, or go oceanside with shells and starfish. 

If you're aiming to design your room based on a concept instead of a theme for a timeless look, using this decorating technique is an easy way to underline the design concept you're going for. For a natural aesthetic, replace flowers with birds, leaves, and vines. On the opposite side of the design scale, achieve a steampunk mirror by creating resin cogs, airships, telescopes, and the essential goggles! Begin with a dark undercoat, and then add a rough metallic coat over it. Allow patches of dark to show through to mimic the look of old metal.