mirror mirror on the wall

who is the fairest of them all?

we have a ton of mirrors in the apt. for 2 of them, andrew and i custom framed them. for the 3rd, we kept it in its original frame to take advantage of its long lines to bring height to our massive master bedroom.

for the middle bedroom, we went with a natural outdoorsy theme. for this room's mirror, we scoured the dollar store and michael's and built a frame from reeds, onto which dried plants and dried wheat are hot glue-gunned. to protect the bottoms of the reeds from the destruction of my 3 lb bunny (think small tasmanian devil that skips in the air for joy at the thought of having something new to tear apart), we created a "planter" by screwing in a brass furnace plate into the wall. andrew (or rather his a.d.d.) added a personal touch: our dining room connects to our living room, so we decided to keep the same accent color, black. all framed objects in this room are art collected from our travels, so it only made sense that this room's frame also be an art piece. after a lengthy trip to home depot that involved much brainstorming, we found the most beautiful architectural piece of wrought iron... in the garden department! we used 4 plant hangers (used to hang potted plants in the nooks between the ceiling of a porch and the house external wall) and hung them from nails at the corners of the piece of mirror. in between each hanger, i linked black chain, through which i strung black satin ribbon (the same from the living room pillows and curtains!) so that the chain would look more substantial. i love how geometrical this piece is. not sure why the wall looked so orange in this shot. it's more like a mexican red; in fact, the color is fiesta by behr paints.the master bedroom is all about simplicity. actually, the mirror from the dining room used to be attached to the middle dresser below. and the mirror that's now in the bedroom, which we painted white to match the dressers (that we also refinished and re-knobbed), is from andrew's friend's parents. those 2 dressers flanking the middle dresser are the childhood dressers of my brother and me. they used to be lacquered pine with lacquered pine globe knobs! ignore the messes. we're currently packing for portland, or!!!