Do you remember the mirror I had behind my desk?
I bought it at a garage sale for a dollar and loved the round shape, but not really the scrolls all around. For a long time, I had visions of collecting driftwood and making something similar to this one that west elm used to sell:
But I just didn’t get around to it. Then, while browsing at Home Depot one day I saw a pile of awesome colored rope and decided that I would put rope round the mirror instead! I chose a pinky orange color that was flecked with yellow and black because I didn’t want it to stand out too much.
I started by spray painting the edge of the mirror, since I wanted to start wrapping the rope where the scrolls started. The overspray scraped easily off the mirror.
Next, I just started hot glueing the rope tightly around the mirror until I covered all of the scroll.
I love the result, but I learned that it probably would have been easier with a thinner rope, because ‘hiding’ the start and finish were a little tricky with such thick rope. The whole mirror also feels a lot bigger, but I like the modern and industrial feel of it.
Anyone else been amazed at the cool colors ropes come in? Any fun projects going on? I am about to try my hand at macrame, since I am truly a child of the 70s.
Wow! I am surprised at how neat this turned out! And some of the modern macrame out there is SO COOL!! Can’t wait to see what you do!
Jo, I am loving some of the macrame looks popping up. I just made a plant hanger with cord and straws that is pretty fun and colorful. Will post it as soon as I get it hung up in the kids’ room.