 You know how hard it is to find a real antique mirror and then finding the antique mirror in the right size impossible. So we'll show you how we just turned these new mirrors into antique mirrors with some paint stripper and we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? A welcome back. Do you like to do a builder to make it? So do we and we have a new video each week. This week we're making some mirror magic for mirror mortals. Yes. We're doing a little product testing for the farmers market. Last year we did great selling outdoor items. All outside. Yes. All the time. We had the front porch welcome signs, door rounds, even the front porch posts. So all of that was outdoor items. I want to expand it this year. By the way, I hadn't told you in my envisioning, I'm envisioning like a U shaped, I want three tables and I want to start adding some indoor home decor items on those tables. This is all news to me right now. I've been doing some planning. So one of the things that I was looking at here recently this week, I saw this really cool antique mirror and I'm a little nervous about bringing a mirror to the farmers market. But wait for you to see what it's going to look like now. Seven years bad luck. Times four. No, wait till you see what it looks like when it's done because the first thing we're going to do is we're going to antique these mirrors. We tried an antique mirror project two years ago, maybe two years a year ago. I don't know. It's over here and we it's a little bit different from what we're doing today. It was glass that we made into an antique mirror. What we're going to do this time is we're going to take a mirror and make it old. Antique it. Yes. And then we're going to add some overlays. I saw these really cool antique mirrors. Spanish tile looking. Yes, but they were $227 for a set of two, which is crazy. I was like, we can totally make that. Yeah, even I was like, we should totally just make that ourselves. So that's what I'm going to try and do today. I'm going to make a set of four of them and, you know, fingers crossed. I hope it looks cool. See how it goes. It'll totally look cool. We'll tweak it till it does. Yeah, yeah. Step one, we're going to gather all of our supplies. We really just needed some mirrors and some things to antique it. Well, I'll go into a little more detail. Yeah, I don't know what it takes. So we purchased a set of six mirrors. We got this one at Lowe's, but it was like $10 for six mirrors. So that's that's pretty good deal. And I did a little research online. Everyone suggested we use the citrus strip, citrus strip. So that five times fast. Yeah, that was hard to say. And then, of course, we're going to need some gloves, a paint brush to apply it. And then once you strip off the backing of the mirror, it's going to leave. You'll be able to see just clean glass, clear glass through it. So you're going to have to reapply it back. But the reapplying the back is what gives it that antique look. So we're going to do a combination of this metallic copper and black spray paint. That's what we're going to apply on the back of it. And we're going to need a spray bottle because once you take the stripper off, you've got to clean all the stripper off. And we're going to do that with bleach and water. Nobody likes a dirty stripper. Oh, Karen. All right. We also need some supplies for a frame and the overlays. So for the frame, I'm just going to use some quarter inch MDF. And for the overlays, I'm going to use some eighth inch birch plywood. All right, let's get this project started. Step two. I'm just chucking it. Now we strip in front of the mirror or the back of the mirror. Now we strip the back of the mirror. All right. We already saw something else crazy. He's really on hold tonight with the stripper. Do it like you do it in the mirror. All right, so we're going to put four of these out here. We'll do without breaking it. Oh, look at you go. Yay, last one. All right, so the instructions for this, this is a little bit thick. So we're going to apply it, we're going to apply it with a paint brush. It does say to use chemical resistant gloves. So I'm going to give Garrett these non-chemical resistant gloves and have him do it. I get it. It melts to my fingers. It's cool. It's cool. Try not to touch it. Do we need like respirators? Well, it does not say that you need respirators. What it does say is that it needs to be used in a well, if you're going to use it indoors, so it does say that you can. But it needs to be used in a very well ventilated space with air blowing. Look, I'm trying. Windows are open after we apply this. We're going to leave the room and let it sit for 45 minutes. It says you can leave it on for 30 minutes to 24 hours. We're going to try 45 minutes. I'll let you know if that changes. I got a fan. All right, well ventilated cross ventilation cross breeze. We are on it. All right. Cool breeze. Paint and varnish stripping gel. Go for it. I don't have to dump it on any of it. Yeah, just pour it right on there. Don't don't get crazy. You say how thick? Relatively thick. I'll tell you, I'll tell you what I think. Oh, that seems like a lot. I was just progressively getting more. You can be glam stripping gel. And now we're going to kind of step out of here. All three windows open over here, and we're going to add a cross breeze and let it set for, like I said, we're going to start with 45 minutes and see how that goes. We'll be back in 45. I wasn't going to throw it. Yeah, that scared me. Now I'm going to strip off the paint stripper. Stripping off the paint stripper. I'm just going to scrape it right. Let's see how it goes. Yeah. Take it all the way down to the overlapping two. So go ahead and get the gray out. Bleach them. We have three parts of water, one part of bleach. We're just going to spray it on, spritz it on and wipe it over. Yeah, but I only want it drips. I don't don't spray the whole thing because I just want kind of so I don't really know how to use the spray button. Is it open off means it's not open? Yeah, like that. Do it someone. Yeah, well, I'm changing the back. So yeah, that's what I was going to tell you. So here's the thing. You have to get past the orange to get to the to get to the actual mirror. The bleach takes that off and then it sits. But the problem is we have scratched it down to the Yeah, how do I do something? Take them outside and repaint the backs. We're going to go with copper and black, kind of alternating in like a spot pattern. We're going to make like a leopard print, maybe don't bet that. But you can just use black to have it that age look or you can do the combination. I think we're going to try the combination. You go combo, combo, combo in it. So what we've learned so far with taking off the paint on the back. You have to get past the silver layer and past the copper layer, brown copper layer. We use the scraper, which worked great, but left scratch marks in it. So I think I might use a like the little small paint scraper, maybe that's not a razor blade. And see if we can push it off like that. Maybe we should have left it a little longer, so get a little more gooey. Yeah, I mean, I think I may have left it. I would leave it for like two hours. Yeah, this was an hour and it wasn't as easy to get off as I thought it would. Yeah, we actually had to use the razor blade scraper. Yeah. And but the bleach does a great job of eating through the copper layer. So I would get as much of that off as you can. But if you can't get it all off, don't worry, the bleach will eat through it some. And it looks like you're going to want to let that bleach sit for five to ten minutes. Yeah, I was going to say 10 or 15. So yeah, and then wipe it off. You just kind of want to spritz and big glops, let it splish splash, sit for five to ten minutes, 15 and dab it, wipe it off. Yeah. And so you want to keep checking the front. What you're looking for is to see if you can see that it's clear glass through it. So you're looking for the clear glass. That's what you're going to end up painting over with the black, giving it that age look. So, you know, take it one step at a time. Keep adding more. You can't put it back. So do it one step at a time. We will be putting it back. Yeah, but you're going to have these spots in it. All right. All right. I'll meet you guys outside. I want to mount them, like I said, I have a vision and I need to make a frame or you can purchase a frame if you could find a 12 by 12 frame. You could distress it, paint it. But we're going to make one using the glow forage. We're going to use some MDF and a backer and we're going to layer a little tiny frame. You'll see. I'll show you. I'll show you a backer, a frame, an overlay and then a frame kind of encapsulate via the mirror. Yeah, we're just going to tuck it in there nice and tight. Yeah, don't actually want to glue the mirror going to glue the frame around. That was our lesson learned from the last mirror project. We add liquid nails to the back of it and ate through and kind of mess them up at the end. Yeah. All right. So our first step to making our overlay, we're going to use this eighth inch perch plywood. So for this, yeah. And we're going to distress it. We're going to have a little distressing so that when we paint it, we're going to use the same paint technique that we used last week in our spring video. We're going to stain this board after we distress it. We're going to stain it with this dark walnut stain. And then we're going to use this drywall taping knife to put the paint on. We're going to use our Country Chic vanilla frosting. We're going to give the the walnuts some frosting. Yeah, we're going to put a couple of blobs on there and then just wipe it off. Let me get my chain. Yeah, get your de-stressed distressing technique. My de-stressing chain. All right. All right. So to distress this wood, this is this isn't as easy to distress. Like, did it even make a mark? Yeah, barely. Oh, I see a little bit right here. Yeah. As if you were using a piece of pine, but still the same thing. I'm trying to get like a little bit of a textured finish on top so that the paint. Yeah, something for that paint to settle in when we scrape across. Give it some character. So we're just going to put some divots in it. Give it a backstory. We're going to use the screwdriver to put some marks in it. Just just hammer it right on there. You can scratch it, scrape it. Oh, I like to see you do this one to make it look like there's some holes like a hitting it with the back of a hammer. Yeah, a little corner of those little holes. Yes, it's like a pin worm holes. Yeah, like pin worms. That's what I was looking for. I was like, what makes that hole? I don't know. Anyway, we're just going to stress this board before we do our at our steam. All right, now we're just going to use a scraper with vanilla frosting, scrape across, try to leave a little bit of paint. Yes, and the more you smooth that finish out, the cooler the texture looks. Now we're going to start cutting out our pieces in the glue forge. We're going to start with the overlay. We're going to cut our eighth inch. Step seven. Now we're going to paint the backer and the frame. We're going to paint it black. This is the backer. These are all my frame pieces. There's two frames. I got a sub frame, a small frame. It's going to go around the mirror. Now I got the big frame. It's going to go on the overlay. I've only ever seen the overlay yet. This is what it looks like when it's all cut out. Kind of cool, kind of distressed. You know, huh? Yes, I really like that to fit distressed finish. It looks nice and it's got a little crackle to it. A little crackle. That comes from keeping the paint a little bit thick and then hitting it with the heat gun, letting it crackle. I like that look. But I think, like I said before, we talked about maybe bringing this to the farmer's market. So we want to keep it simple. I want it to look good, but I don't want it to be a ton of labor involved. It's got to be easy. If I'm going to make it and then bring it every week. Easily repeatable. Yes, easily repeatable. Go call. Yeah. Let's go spray it. Time to assemble. We're going to use this clear gorilla glue. It says indoor outdoor use should be able to toss it around like I see on the commercials. Oh, we need them here. Do it like you do it in the mirror. Glue the pieces and then fit the frame around it. Right. So it's the solid quarter inch backer and these little mini eighth inch frame that's going to go around it. And then are you going to put it? How are you going to? Yeah, let's lump them together. I'll glue it and then we'll move them into place. OK, sounds good. Ooh, good turn. I'll say go back in and make sure it's quiet, man. Don't get that stuff on your fingers. That's a gorilla glue. Can you watch the news? Do you guys watch the news? That was a good one, babe. Yeah, they turned out pretty good. The frame looks nice and the overlay is beautiful. I love this distressed look and finish we've got going here. Yeah, pretty cool. But the stress in the mirror, I don't know, man. That was a little more work than I think we'll be able to recreate every week if they're a good seller. Yeah, I think our lesson learned on the mirror. You saw that we used the scraper after one hour, but it left scrape marks in it, like actual scratch marks in it. So we ended up doing a couple of more just to try a different technique. We left the stripper on for two hours and would you say that was better? I mean, that helped. It came off a little easier, it was a little more mushy. I was able to get it off with a plastic scraper. And that's where I was going, yes. So you want to let it set long enough that that plastic scraper, without the blade actually scratching it and leaving lines in it, the plastic scraper helped take it off and that one looked a little nicer. Took it off a little better, didn't scratch, didn't leave those long scrape marks. And the bleach, you want to leave that bleach on for like 20 minutes to really let it eat through. Like 15, 20 minutes, yep, that was a good time. Yeah. That worked. And then tone it down on the copper already. It doesn't look that bad. It's just not exactly the look I was thinking of. I thought it would actually be more copper and black, but once you just one swipe of the copper and it was like, covered. Yeah, I was surprised how much it covered. I tried not to cover that much. I was trying to make like a leopard print in the middle of one and you can't tell. You can't tell. It's all copper. All right, it's that time. We got to go. So if you're not joining us for the patron after show, we will see you next week where we'll do it moving to make it again. And I think I should balance one of these. No, come on, man. I think it'll be fun. It'll work out. We'll do it this way. What's the tic-tac thing? No one will know. No one will know. Don't know. No, no, no, no. Gotta keep my hand close, though.