"Could you frame out the larger mirror in wood trim and stain to match new mirror so that it would be a mirror then a mirror?" ThatÂs what I was thinking about doing. I wanted to solve the technical problems first, of how to hang, and the aesthetic issue, of would it look right in the first place. I stained other oak shelves in the room to match the vanity, so could do that. (The craftsman mirror is not oak, like the vanity, though: I think it is rubberwood. If I framed the big one I would have to use oak, but could probably get it to match well enough.) Assuming the cables are attached to screws in the studs over the big mirror, I could conceal that, maybe, by having the wood trim on the big mirror pass over that, with a small hollow in the back. The big mirror goes almost wall to wall on the sides, and right up to the round base of the light fixture above, so if I framed it out, whatever I did would have to float on the surface of the mirror and be adhered with glue.

We have a 48" vanity with a 45" square by 1/4 thick flat mirror over it. To be specific the mirror is mounted via a chrome channel that runs the length of the bottom that the mirror sits in and two mirror clips at the top. I had to remove the mirror to have the vanity top replaced. I further found that the chrome channel at the bottom was nailed in 3 locations, I believe into studs. It also rested on the vanity top. The mirror also has about a dozen blobs of glue helping secure it. Well, the new top is in and sits an inch lower than the old. Thus the chrome channel no onger rests on the vanity top. Must I lower than channel or could I leave it where it is? Will it still support the mirror if I set it back in the channel, put another dozen blobs of glue and put the clips back up top OR must I lower the channel so it again sits on the (new) cultured marble top? It may not sound like a big deal to lower it but if I could leave it where it was I would have no spackling and repainting to do? Thanks!!!!

ThatÂs what I was afraid of. I didnÂt want to put ideas in peopleÂs headsÂbut that is the reservation I have. I think having to use it on one side of the wall, asymmetrically, doesnÂt work. I was SO sure it would look great, and be really like the finishing touch in this room. Darn! The thickness, bulkiness, of it bothers me too, in that place. Too much mass. I thought, before I tried it, that it would balance the weight of the solid looking vanity. Instead it just makes it look like too much weight on the left side of the room and nothing on the right. Having to one side bothers me with the light fixture too, and I love that light. It doesnÂt show well in the photos, but is a stained glass repro I ordered from a craftsman lighting company, in a custom size. The mirror is discontinued, so I canÂt get another to balance it better. It doesnÂt look right centered on the big mirror either. Too odd when you are standing in front of the vanity. Sigh. I love this mirror. Buying this one when it went on clearance was what made me decide to have a craftsman bathroom in the first place! (Well, that and it opens off a craftsman family room.) I have one open wall on that room, where I used to have a framed picture. IÂll try propping it up there. The craftsman family room already has a mirror.

Can you mock it up? I drew lines all over my old bathroom before it was demoed to check the height that was good for me. And while we didn't have the restrictions a shelf would entail, we did mock it up again when we were doing our final decisions on our mirrors in the new space. We made cardboard mirrors and covered them with aluminum foil in the size we thought we wanted and DH and I took turns holding them up over the sinks and vanity to make sure they would look good and work.