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So my latest project was one that was about a year in the making. I had plans to do this foreva. I couldn’t decide on the details so it just didn’t happen until I started the redo a few weeks ago.
I LOVE our dining room hutch. It’s dark and curvy, just the way I like hutches. If I had a thing for hutches that is.
There is only one issue that has bugged me from day one:
Can you tell what it is? The mirrors that line the back of the hutch drove me cray-zay. They reflected ev.er.y.thing — I mean, that’s the deal with mirrors right? When I filled it with accessories, it felt like they all just disappeared into a reflected abyss. You couldn’t really see anything that was in there.
So, about a year ago, I decided to cover the backs — I started with foam poster boards (from the dollar store) and some leftover fabric from my drapes. I stopped after one though, because as I mentioned before, I just wasn’t “feeling” the room.
A couple weeks ago I decided to finish this everlasting project up. But what to cover it with? I didn’t want to do the same fabric from the drapes because a.) it was more than I wanted to spend on this and b.) I didn’t want it to be too matchy and c.) I was lazy.
So I thunk and I thunk and I thunk. It hit me — DOH. I had a ton of wallpaper left from this project. And it was already white. SCORE!
Here’s how I did it…
Measured each section of mirror horizontally and vertically:
Then I marked the measurements on the foam board:
I marked the measurements down the board, then connected the dots with the level to make a line:
The foam is thin enough to just cut with scissors:
Then just cut the wallpaper to the size I needed, then used the hot glue to wrap the paper around the foam:
It turned out pretty much exactly how I had hoped!:
Then I was able to decorate the hutch for autumn…some pumpkins and leaves bling it up:
My apothecary jars are so fun to fill for fall and Christmas! They are filled with a bunch ‘o fall stuff — leaves, pumpkins, beads, pears, apples:
Teeny tiny acorns and beads that I snipped off pics from Hobby Lobby:
A pumpkin under glass:
More beady stuff. Are you surprised?:
Those FAB plates are my HomeGoods finds from today and whoooeee they are gorg! I needed to lift a couple items up and for now, they are the perfect way to do that.
Enter half price (faux) crystal knobs from Hob Lob:
Fat round ones in the middle, small square ones on the doors.
Stink Eye Sister doesn’t like the scrolly thing on it’s side. It makes her “uncomfortable” that I am not using it as it should be. I told her where her “not as it should be” can (nicely) go cause I like it!
Love you sis! Smooches!
I was toying with touching up the raised areas with some stain or paint, to bring out the texture, but now I’m thinking that would get too busy. 
And I love it at night even more, of course:
Oh yeah, did I mention this was FAAAREEEE? Well, I bought nine foam boards for a buck each, but that was a year ago so it totally doesn’t count. 
