You guys. Seriously. Remember just before Memorial Day weekend when I blogged about my upcoming bathroom makeover? How I was painting the boring white walls, and trying to figure out how to make the small bathroom look more interesting? Well. Just wait until you see.

I have to backtrack a bit, not much, just enough to give you some background info on my husband. Regular readers know that my husband, in addition to being the best husband and Dad I could have ever imagined (I know, awwww), has this special talent. He builds furniture. Yes, furniture. Like, about six years ago, we needed a new coffee table really badly, so one Saturday morning he got up, sketched one out on a piece of paper, drove to Home Depot, came home, and in about five hours, we had a coffee table. The frame that our mattress and box springs sits on? Made by Chris in a couple of hours out in the driveway after another impromptu stop at Home Depot. My computer stand? Again, made by Chris. He just has this thing where he can see a piece of furniture in his head, and BUILD IT.

So, fast forward back to the bathroom makeover. The mirror in that bathroom is a huge square, and on the bottom edge, the reflective coating had worn off somehow leaving an ugly black slash. While discussing the bathroom decor, I lamented that I didn’t want to have to buy a new mirror when we had a perfectly good one, but that I hated that huge black scratch. Chris says, let me think about it.
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A few days later, we go to Home Depot. He says, I had an idea for the mirror. What if we bought some …and I…and then I…? How would that look? I say gee, I don’t know about that. So we went and looked at the…and found something really unique, and he said, I could… I said really? Go for it!
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It took him a few evenings and this past weekend to finish. See if you can guess based on this list of items that were involved:

  • Two pieces of 1 1/2 inch wood trim
  • A can of polyurethane wood stain
  • A Miter saw
  • A small paintbrush
  • Acrylic paint in dark green and red

Have you guessed yet? Let me give you another hint:

When he showed me the final result, I was ABSOLUTELY BLOWN AWAY. I mean people, honestly. I challenge you to show me another person you know that has a bathroom mirror that looks like this:

Again, let me stress, made completely by hand by MY HUSBAND. He sat in the garage for hours dabbing paint onto those leaves and dotting each little depression in the wood with red paint. This man has MAD CRAFT SKILLZ, YO.

And I have the COOLEST BATHROOM MIRROR EVER.