Through the Looking Glass…..

Right bottom corner Dewey sanding Upper left corner
One night about a month ago, after we finished making our first mortise and tenon picture frame (we’ll talk about those in a seperate article), my DH (darling husband) and I were sitting on the couch, admiring our efforts. To our left, above our mantel, hung the newly framed Anita Munman lithograph, Valley. To the right (and even farther right) of that were the window frames we’d painstakingly stripped, sanded, stained and shellacked. Directly in front, between our ‘his and hers’ chairs stood the tile topped table we’d just finished and brought into the house just a few minutes earlier. To the right of those, our famous (or infamous) door. Our eyes continued tracking through the room to the right, and what to our wandering eyes did appear? A blank spot on the north wall, between the door and the entry way into the front hall. We sat and stared. What could we make to fill this vast peanut butter wasteland? And then it came to me, as if in a dream. A mirror! I recalled having seen one in one of our inspiration Craftsman style magazines, American Bungalow. You can find our inspiration piece at http://www.dardhunter.com/shop/index.php?shop=1&itemid=141. Our’s is a bit larger than the largest one they offer for $175. Our’s cost under $40. We invite you to view the pictures of our mirror in progress, and on the wall. A vast wasteland no more!