The BoiseBombshell: DIY Wall Decor Mirror

I have been drooling over this Ballard Design mirror for over a year and for good reason, it's stunning:

Why have I been drooling instead of buying? Well, this mirror is $369 per section (the picture posted by the company is very deceiving and shows 4 sections). So add that up bombshells and the mirror pictured above would be a whooping $1,476...more than I have available to spend on a mirror. After many discouraged months of hoping this beauty would magically become only $100, Corey and I came up with a way to recreate it and the finished product looks quite fabulous.

Materials:

2 cans spray paint @ $5.78 each (We used "hammered finish gold spray" from Home Depot)

2 packs doilies @ $3.99 each (Found these in the cake section at Michael's)

12 packs of 3 diameter mirrors @ $1.99 per pack (also from Michael's)

1 steel wire remesh sheet @ $7.98 (Home Depot)

Total Cost: $51.40* (excluding tax)

*We used coupons at Michael's that they post to their website weekly, see here, so with those our total was $44.82 (excluding tax)

A $45 mirror, that looks like the $1,500 mirror I originally fell in love with, YES!!! Here are the steps:

Steps:

Step 1: Cut the steel wire sheet to the size you desire & spray paint (allow to dry)

Step 2: Spray paint doilies & allow to dry

The doilies were originally black

The doilies allowed us to give the illusion the mirrors were "framed" without the added expense

Love the "hammered" look of this spray paint

Step 3: Hot glue mirrors to doilies & allow to dry

Step 4: Exposing the backside of the wire sheet, hot glue mirror/doily combo & allow to dry

Be sure to hold the wire sheet down to the back of the doilies, until the hot glue is completely dry...my hands were busy taking pictures, pardon the foot assist

Here's what the front looked like, after gluing a couple: