Adding Molding Item Together With Making Novel Gilded Expect Old

Last Fall I institute a groovy tall mirror on clearance at Garden Ridge, together with fifty-fifty though I didn't know where it was going, I couldn't move yesteryear it up.  So, it sat inward my chamber for months, until I spiffed upwards my piffling corner inward the living room together with it institute the perfect home.

It was silvery (not actually my color) together with manifestly (not my style), but I planned to develop all of that.  First off, I wanted to add together some cut down simply to instruct inward a piffling to a greater extent than interesting.  I institute some at Home Depot that was sparse plenty to cutting easily together with entirely terms some $7 for this project. 

After mitering the corners, I used skilful 'ol Elmer's forest gum to affix the trim.

I'm non certain the frame is forest but I know it's really difficult together with I didn't desire to mess amongst trying to smash the cut down on.  The cut down was therefore calorie-free that the gum worked similar a charm.  

I had a few corners together with occupation spots that didn't agree upwards exactly, but amongst a chip of forest filler no i volition ever know subsequently it's painted. 

The frame was a piffling scratched upwards (probably the crusade for it hitting the clearance rack!) therefore I filled those inward amongst some forest filler together with lightly sanded.  The mirror got a coat of golden spray paint-I can't think if I used Rustoleum's Metallic Brass or Metallic Gold....I become dorsum together with forth.

As much every bit I dear golden spray paint, sometimes the complete falls a piffling flat.  Also, no affair what "gold" color I tried, it was also brilliant for the to a greater extent than antique looking golden frames that I was using side yesteryear side to the mirror. 

First, I tried using some nighttime chocolate-brown arts and crafts pigment together with a damp rag to deed similar a glaze together with darken the paint.  It added a small-scale amout of variation, but it needed more.  Here's how it looked then-  

After a piffling to a greater extent than experimenting, the best method I institute for this smooth, apartment surface turned out to move using a paintbrush to dry out brush the pigment on.  To dry out brush, simply instruct a piffling chip of pigment on the ends of the bristles, together with and therefore lightly pigment on the surface. 

I applied the pigment inward random places, together with and therefore when the moisture pigment was gone off of the brush, used it to plumage together with blend out the nighttime pigment spots.  

Just boot the bucket on rubbing amongst your brush until it looks how yous desire it to.  You tin e'er add together a piffling to a greater extent than nighttime paint, or if yous got also much wipe it a piffling amongst a damp rag together with become dorsum over it amongst your brush to blend.  This isn't a precise process, simply play amongst it until it looks correct to you.

Close-up yous tin encounter the chocolate-brown a piffling chip but when yous pace dorsum it all blends together together with looks prissy together with old. 

My friend here.

How nearly you?  Any other tricks for making novel golden await old?

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