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.

I love the old chippy windows! I've used Posca markers on a couple of them. These are the markers that used car dealers use to write on windshields. Washes off with rubbing alcohol if you decide you no longer want it there. I wrote on the backside of this one, so I can write (and erase) things on the front. My last name is covered up in this one, there isn't a big empty square there. :-) I've also used transparencies with graphics I copied from the computer in the smaller panes of another window. Looks like painted glass. All these are posted somewhere at the Trash to Treasure forum, you can find lots of other window ideas there too.

That would also be absolutley awesome with a mirror in it hanging over a vanity in an antiquey bathroom. You know...with an old dresser holding a sink. How 'bout padding and tufting the middle, bolting it to the wall and using it for the headboard of a twin bed? Pad the middle and use it for the back to a bench stained to match with padding on the seat. Hang it on the wall as a frame for a collage of antique family photos...printed in sepia. (Oh gee...that would look great in my living room on my reddish walls!) Heck...I'd sneak it out of your garage in the middle of the night if you weren't so far away! LOL ~Sandy~

Hot Rod, we would like to replace the whole thing. The frame is probably carrying it's own weight in paint. I have been told because these are metal frames in a plaster wall that it might be a major undertaking. I've also been told it shouldn't be a big deal. My contractor said he could sand the frames and get them looking like new and it will be a lot less money than replacing the frames. I'm just not sure he's being lazy though...