Add personality to your home decor with an easy mosaic mirror crafts project.
Every house needs a mirror, but why settle for one with no personality? Creating your own mosaic trim can make a particularly pretty, satisfying, and simple crafts project, especially with today's choices of tiles in materials such as rustic stone, sleek marble, and metallic glass.
Step 1
Choose the color and type of tile. We used a selection of glass tiles in shades of aqua, green, and sky blue from KP Tiles. Place the tiles on your mirror's frame for fit, then draw a grid with a pencil. Adhere the tiles with a clear-drying, nontoxic craft glue and allow them to set for 24 hours.
Step 2
Apply a thick layer of non-sanded grout (available either powdered or premixed at art supply stores) onto the tiles, making sure to fill in all the gaps. Let the grout set for about 20 minutes, then wipe away excess with a damp sponge. Allow it to dry for 24 hours more.
How to Do It
For this round mirror, we used wheeled tile nippers to cut square tiles into narrow rectangles so they would better fit the curved shape of the frame. Gently roll the nippers through the tile where you want the cut to be -- look for tiles that have grooves on the back side to help ensure a straight cut. After you've cut the tiles, follow the steps from the previous page.
Pick Your Pattern
The joy of mosaics is that you can express yourself in a range of patterns. Here, other designs to suit your style: Bands of round tiles accentuate the shape of a circular mirror, smaller-scale tiles in complementary shades look great set in horizontal stripes (shown), four colored bands around the edges of a mirror create a bold look, or a freewheeling patchwork design uses tiles of various shapes and sizes.
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