Mirror do it yourself

Purchase a mirror in our time will not be a lot of work. The goods are not scarce and accessible to everyone and everyone. In addition, you can choose this subject of the interior to your taste and color. But if your fantasy requires new experiments, then why not make a mirror with your own hands. This is new knowledge, and pride for your work. Just before making a mirror with your own hands, bow to rubber gloves and remember the school course of chemistry, in particular - the performance of silvering of mirror surfaces.

Silverboard

To create a mirror, this method will require a large set of tools:

• cut glass;
• distilled water;
• glucose;
• filtration paper;
• nitrogen acid;
• silver nitric acid;
• ammonia;
• detergent;
• plasticine;
• sodium hydroxide.

To properly make the mirror with your own hands clearly follow the instructions of the master class. To protect the skin of the hands, put on the gloves, for the eyes - glasses and proceed to work.

1. Rinse the cooked piece of glasses with a detergent and remove fat and other smallest particles from its surface. You should choose a smooth glass, without bubbles.
2. Wipe the surface, and better dry the hairdryer. Then, on the edge of the glass, create smooth and uniform sides of plasticine 3 cm high.
3. Avoid touching the glass surface and not leave it greasy traces.
4. Then prepare working solutions. Use only chemically pure substances. For the first solution, mix 11 g of silver nitrate with distilled water (210 g). Second solution - sodium hydroxide (8 g) and 210 g of distilled water. In a third solution connect 210 g of distilled water and 11 g of glucose in pure form.
5. If there is no chemical glassware, use a normal glass. In a glass pour first solution. Then add on was pipetted into a glass ammonia solution and actively shake. He first became turbid. Ammonia was added dropwise until the precipitate does not disappear. When the solution became transparent, add 4 drops of silver nitrate. The liquid must then slightly turbid and acquire a yellowish tint.
6. To the resulting substance pour the prepared second solution with sodium hydroxide. Continuously stir. A residue which is necessary to dissolve by adding a few drops of ammonia. That will have a yellow-brown solution, which filter the through filter paper.
7. Next, a third take-prepared solution with glucose and pour it on the glass surface. Gently spread over the surface.
8. Liquid with silver nitrate pour onto the surface, where it is mixed with the glucose solution and replace its color to black. Leave the future of the mirror in this condition for 10 minutes.
9. Then, carefully pour the entire contents from the glass surface, rinse with distilled water and dry.
10. Bumpers plasticine remove. On the side where the silver layer apply several layers of black ink. Mirror Finish.

The outer glass silvering

Due silvering this method is obtained a smooth and durable surface mirror. In order to get to work, clean the glass with warm water and pat dry.

Then, follow the instructions:

1. Dry surface of glass with a solution of potassium hydroxide to degrease. Then wipe the glass stannous chloride solution (1%) and soak in distilled water.
2. Remove from the water and dry the glass. Immediately after that pour the substance on its surface for silvering.
3. To prepare a solution for silvering, it is necessary to connect 300 g of distilled water with 5 g of nitric acid silver. Then, with intense scarce, add a few drops of ammonia solution. When the substance becomes transparent, add 4 drops of nitrate silver to it. The substance will become muddy. To him, pour the caustic satellum, the color of the solution will be coffee. Reduce his ammonia again. Stir everything and add distilled water so that 1 liter is obtained.
4. The glass will first darken. Then, when a dark precipitate falls (silver), it will light up.
5. There are cases when dark traces remain on the surface. They must be removed by a two-chip. After that, pour the solution for silver to the surface of the glass again.
6. After 10 minutes, gently drain the liquid from the surface and pour another layer of the mixture.
7. When 20 minutes go, rinse the surface with water. So that all the silvering layers are firmly entrenched, the glass must be placed in the oven and leave for 2 hours at a temperature of 130 degrees.
8. The dried mirror fasten up several layers of paint from the back side.
9. The front of the mirror wipe the gauze tampon with hydrochloric acid. Mirror is ready.

About how to make a solution for silver mirrors with your own hands you can see in detail on the video.

Decor of the mirror

To complete the image of your home mirror you need to decorate. It can be a stylish frame or a braid on the edge of the mirror. You can apply decoupage technique, apply patterns through stencil, decorate a mirror with all sorts of small details.

Mirror decor from macaroni

Original and non-standard solution - decorate the mirror with pasta. The usual edible "shells" look harmoniously and can give the mirror a completely unusual and creative appearance.

Before starting decoration, stocking machines, tassel, glue and any paint. Also plan an approximate future pattern on the mirror on paper.

1. Spread pasta on the table in the form of a future frame.
2. Mock with a brush in glue and apply to pasta. Gently glue them so that the glue does not smear over the mirror.
3. When stick the last macaronin, let the songs dry. Then cover the paint frame. To avoid paints from getting paints on a mirror surface, stuck it with paper.

Wait until the frame dry and attach the mirror to any suitable place.

Decor of round mirror

If you managed to make a mirror of a rounded shape, it can be issued as a sun. We offer to use bamboo skewers as rays. You also purchase a brass ring on the diameter of your mirror.

1. First of all on paper, draw a sketch of the future frame. Make a range of 24 equal sections. Inside a large circle, mark the circle smaller, retreating from the edge of 3 cm. This sketch must be transferred to a cardboard pattern that corresponds to the diameter of the mirror.
2. Bamboo sticks distribute on 4 parts so that each has 24 sticks. Thus, in the end, 96 rays should turn out.
3. Leaves from the first part in this form (30 cm). And the remaining sticks of 2, 3 and 4 parts shorten by 8, 11, and 14 cm.
4. Start gluing sticks, for this use the glue gun. First, the cardboard surface is clearly on the lines glue long rays (24 pcs.).
5. Sticks of the smallest length stick from the border of the inner circle. These wands place on the right side of each second long beam.
6. By the same principle, glue the sticks from the third and the fourth part.
7. When everything is glued, let the rays dry and then squeak their paint golden shade.
8. Next, take your mirror and take it to the cardboard with already fixed rays. Then fasten the ring from brass.
9. Mirror with rays is ready. On the reverse side, make a fixture for mounting to the wall.

Stylish frame for mirrors

To creatively arrange a homemade mirror, use the following tools:

• acrylic paints;
• wax;
• stencil with any pattern;
• varnish, glue;
• silvent or gold-plated sheets (potal).

Production process:

To the frame for your mirror turns out more original, try to use stencil with an unusual pattern. Conditionally determine the boundaries of the frame at the mirror and paint it into any color.

1. On the painted frame, apply the harvested stencil and proceed with golden color.
2. Leave the mirror for time to dry well. Then selectively apply special glue for gilded sheets on the pattern (sweaty).
3. Back to postpone the mirror for half an hour.
4. In a slightly sticky glue, apply Paltal. Smooth it with a tassel and fix it in this way.
5. The next step will be the processing of edges of the mirror with stationery wax for gilding. It dries very quickly and gives the surface a fashionable effect under ancient.
6. When the work on the decor is completed, secure all the layers of protective varnish. In this case, it is better to use acrylic varnish.