Installing Your Vanity Mirror

One of the easiest ways to breathe new life into your bathroom is to replace your tired, old mirror with a brand new mirror complete with decorative frosting or a frame. Most bathroom mirrors that you buy new from a home improvement or furniture store will have hanging equipment and instructions. To be sure, check with the sales person before you buy your mirror. Finding your new mirror at a garage sale or flea market can be an exciting treasure hunt, but the mirror will not usually come with installation instructions or equipment. You can purchase a kit with hanging clips for a frameless mirror or a picture hanging kit for a framed mirror at any hardware store.

Hanging a Vanity Mirror with a Frame

• When you purchase your picture hanging kit, make sure that it can hold at least 100 pounds.

• Attach picture wire to the frame of your mirror. Your kit will come either with eye or regular screws around which you loop and knot the wire. Make sure it’s secure and will support the weight of your mirror before you hang it.

• With a very heavy mirror or a thin wall, you’ll need molly screws to help hang your mirror. Using multiple picture hooks can help to distribute weight as well.

• Mark the top two edges and the top center of your vanity mirror on the wall. Pull the picture wire as far up the mirror as you can and measure from the top of the vanity mirror to the high point on the wire. Measure down from your center mark on the wall to that point and make a mark for your hook. When using two or more hooks, you’ll have to pull the wire up in two points in between the vanity mirror’s top center and top edges at the same time and mark the wall accordingly.

• Mount your picture hooks and hang your mirror. It might take a couple tries to level your new bathroom mirror.

Hanging a Vanity Mirror without a Frame

• Measure your mirror. Find where the center of your vanity mirror and top and bottom edges would be on the wall. About six inches in from each edge is typically where you’ll be attaching your clips for a square mirror. For oval or circular mirrors, the rule stays the same, but it’s six inches in, following the outside edge of the circle, to support the mirror.

• Attach the bottom two clips first if they screw in. You can install spring-loaded clips all at once, if you have those instead. Put foam bumpers to protect your vanity mirror at least six inches inside the edge of the mirror.

• Rest the mirror on the bottom two clips and center. Screw in your top clips or hook your spring-loaded clips to your vanity mirror.

Stand back and admire your handiwork.

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