Today I am going to share with you a little rehab I did on some mirrors I bought. I LOVE the mirror from Anthropologie called the Primose. It is so beautiful. I love how it brings an antique look to a modern space. If I could choose, I would want an actual vintage one, but come on, lets be real….it’s not gonna happen.

Well, I have had my eye on the one at Anthropologie, but I couldn’t bring myself to spend that much on a mirror. The size I needed for my space is the 5’ one and it costs $848. So, I decided to just find one at a more reasonable price.

I found one at Kirklands y’all that is so similar to the Primrose. It was $129, but the only problem was it was sold out in the gold and they only had silver. Ugh! It was such a good price, I decided to go ahead and order 2 and refinish them in gold.

When they finally came in, they were beautiful! Yay! I thought I would go ahead and set them up and just see if I needed to make them gold or not. Although they didn’t look bad, I thought they would just pop and look better in gold, sooooooo the project began.

I did a little research online on what to use because I didn’t want to just spray paint them. I wanted them to look like they were vintage. Of course, when you start looking, everyone has their opinion of what they like. After much stressing as to what to use, I went to Michaels and just bought it all! I bought some gold leaf paint, gold leaf sheets and Rub’nBuff.

I used the gold leaf paint first and it was hard to achieve an antique finish and it just looked solid gold. It was pretty and shiny but didn’t look antique or worn. It looked too perfect.

I was very frustrated at this point and OVER IT already. I pushed through my frustrations and decided to use the the Rub’nBuff next.

I started filling in the crevices with black so I could get the antique/worn look. I used some little sponge applicators I found at Michaels and they worked great.

TIP: WEAR GLOVES. I started off without using gloves, but it got messy really quick.

Once I got the black done, I then applied the gold. I got a piece of an old t-shirt and just squeezed a little bit onto the rag and just rubbed it on. After the first try of gold application, I was a little hesitant to apply gold again, but here goes.

Que the “AHHHHHHHH” music with confetti falling from the ceiling. It was like music to the soul. Y’all, this is the first time I have ever used this stuff and let’s just say it’s the BOMB! It was soooooo easy to use and I was able to achieve the look I wanted. The process went really fast and I was so suprised at how they turned out (despite the first mishap with gold leaf paint).

TIP: A LITTLE BIT GOES A LONG WAY! I couldn’t believe I didn’t even use a full tube of the gold on 2 mirrors.

After I got done with the mirrors, I thought..I need to go buy a case of this Rub’nBuff. It is AMAZING! I can’t wait to use it again!

Here is the before and after of the mirror.

BEFORE

AFTER

Keep redeeming!