Friday, August 14, 2009

Malma mirror mirror on the wall

Bj from London did a simple but beautiful hack on the Malma mirrors. 

"Just ten Malma mirrors, some emulsion and a idea for a pattern. Uber cheap. But love the effect. I used Photoshop to create my pattern and work out the layout, but free hand is just as good. 10 Malma mirrors painted white with leftover interior emulsion. I left a 2 cm gap between the frames and using a pencil drew in the pattern I wanted allowing for the gap. Again a tiny amount of left over grey emulsion from a spring decorating freshen-up filled in the pattern and done. I love the impact of the them mounted together and all for under £10!"



Other Malma hacks:
- Malma magic
- Art up your Malma mirror 
- Hanna's craft mirror
- Wall mirror art
- A frame up

25 comments:

  1. Very pretty!

    Any chance he'd be willing to share the Photoshop pattern?

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  2. Beautiful! I think I will steal this idea for my bathroom. Love the pattern too.

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  3. I like this very much, quite elegant. I must give this a try. Can you post a link to the design pattern? or a jpeg of it so we can get an idea (for those living in the dark ages w/out photoshop)? Thank you.

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  4. That pattern looks an awful lot like these IKEA curtain panels: http://unclutterer.com/wp-content/uploads/080228_curtain2.jpg

    Just sayin... ;-)

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  5. i LOVE that candelabra! where did you get it?!

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  6. Great inspiration! I also have 4 mirrors and I needed an idea what to do with them! Thanks for the idea!

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  7. This looks absolutely fantastic!!!

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  8. awesome idea and design!!

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  9. did the same thing last week! it looks great

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  10. that is the cutest hack I've seen in a long time!

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  11. Wow -- just gorgeous!

    By emulsion, do you mean paint?

    So, did you hand-paint them? How did you transfer the pattern from Photoshop onto the wood?

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  12. Hi, that's just too gorgeous..how did u stick those on the wall?

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  13. Delicate and exquisite is what it looks like...love the soft look it creates in the room.

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  14. I always find great ideas here on your blog. This one is the greatest it look very modern and sophisticated. The patters you made it more elegant to look at.

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  15. I say this is looks dashing … the whole design is phenomenal.

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  16. As Mr. Rodacre points out, it's a design from an IKEA curtain, so I imagine you could simply shine a light through the curtain and trace the shadows onto the mirrors hung on the wall.

    Otherwise, photograph the design, trace it in photoshop, print it out to the right scale and cut stencils (though I'd not use photoshop if you want to work to an exact scale and with geometric shapes. You'd be better off with Illustrator or some kind of CAD software.)

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  17. Hello there :)

    What a great place this blog is - absolute treasure for IKEA lovers :) it has actually inspired me to write a post about it and your website is the main hero :)
    (I hope you don't mind!)

    Best,
    Natienka
    http://natienka.wordpress.com/

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  18. My goodness, this is gorgeous and gives me so many ideas!

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  19. I agree, maybe it's just mirrors, I just saw a kick ass POP ART mirror - this could be fun!

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  20. Useful post would it be OK if i link this on my blog? Thanks

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  21. this mirror on wall look amazing will going to consider this for my new home design.

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