One Day at a Time: Revamped Bathroom: Project #2

Ok, so on with the next project from my previous post, "Will you spruce up my bathroom Mom?" If you will recall, I did a mini makeover of my son's bathroom in his rental apartment. His requests were; 1). make it more masculine, 2). use black, 3). make no structural modifications, and 4). work within a shoestring budget.

In yesterday's post I showed you how I revamped his builder-grade mirror by adding a frame that could be easily removed. In this post I am going to share how I made wall art out of thrift store finds all for the grand total of $27 (+tax).

The finished product:

First, I have to confess that the frames where recycled. They were hung on the wall with photographs in the "before" bathroom:

Cute, but definitely not masculine. I decided to repurpose them and removed the glass, mats, and photographs, pulled out the hardware on the back and inside and spray painted them with Rust-Oleum spray paint in Satin/Claret Wine.

I found these black shiny mats at the thrift store ($5 each) and decided to glue the painted frames to them with epoxy ($5).

After doing this I felt like there should be something 3-dimensional in the middle and went back to the thrift store in search of the perfect item. I found these steak plates for $3 each;