Installing a wall mirror Installation requires planning and preparation, but just a few low-cost items are required. Keep these six procedures in mind for a flawless mirror installation.

Step 1: Decide where you would like to hang your mirror

Over the bathroom sink and near the closet or dresser in the bedroom, mirrors are a requirement. They also bring light to any room or corridor, making them a beautiful focal point throughout the home.

Step 2: Choose a Mirror of Appropriate Size and Style

Framed mirrors compliment the woodwork of headboards, footboards, and storage furniture in bedrooms. Frameless mirrors are ideal for a bathroom or a hallway. They are very simple to clean and hang. In the entryway, antique frameless mirrors with insets and scalloped edges may be both practical and lovely.

Step 3: Select a Mirror Hanging Technique

Mirrors in high-traffic locations, such as bathrooms, benefit from bracket suspension. A framed mirror can only be hung from the rear with a hanging wire. Adhesive hanging provides the most stable and long-lasting support.

Step 4: Hang a Mirror on Brackets

Measure the overall space that the mirror will occupy and draw a pencil frame around it. Make four marks on the four corners of the room where the metal or polyurethane brackets will be installed. Before drilling the bracket screw holes, make sure your pencil frame lines are level and perpendicular. Drill the bottom left and right brackets’ screw holes. At least two of the screws should go into a wall stud if possible. Set the mirror into the two bottom brackets that have been attached. Before drilling, double-check the location of the top two screw holes. Install the top two brackets after removing the mirror. Replace the mirror in the bottom brackets and tighten the screws by hand with a screwdriver. Hand-tighten the top two brackets’ screws with a screwdriver after sliding them over the mirror.

Step 5: Use a Wire to Hang a Framed Mirror

Two eye hooks, two inches from each edge at the horizontal centerline of the mirror, should be inserted into the rear of the frame. Run 2.5 times the mirror’s width of fiberglass cable or aluminum wire through the hooks and attach it near one hook. At 60 inches from the floor, measure the center point of the mirror’s width on the wall and connect a screw with butterfly support to the drywall. Hang the mirror by the base and gently release it to evenly spread the mirror’s weight.

Step 6: Glue a Frameless Mirror to the Wall

Measure and trace the mirror on the wall, making sure the lines are straight and level. Apply mirror mastic to the back of the mirror in 3-inch strips. With a putty blade, smooth down the glue and push the mirror firmly and rapidly onto the outline.