For the past couple of years, my indoor practice space has been a weirdly-shaped trapezoid of living

For the past couple of years, my indoor practice space has been a weirdly-shaped trapezoid of living room with foam puzzle mats and a slightly cracked mirror we picked up for free that leans haphazardly against the wall. It’s the space I spend the most time in aside from my room, so I decided to make it suit its function a little better.This mirror is heckin’ heavy, not to mention sharp-edged, and obviously couldn’t be trusted to plastic mirror mounts. I had just finished making a router table, so I decided to make a mount sort of like a photo frame: by routing a channel the depth of the mirror out of the back of some solid wood trim, and then screwing the trim into studs. This would give the mirror a very sturdy base to rest on top of, and it would be snugly held against the wall along its entire length.Since I wasn’t planning to frame the sides, I made the trim a little longer than the mirror for aesthetic reasons.yay routing! checking the depth fitbefore, ew. there was a surprise outlet behind the perma-leaning mirror!predrilling the trim to line up with the studs (the only reason I cut them in half was to fit them in my backpack on the way home)I highly recommend recruiting a helping hand to hold things level, but if you are #foreveralone like me, you can pull fun stunts with your feetjanky mirror up! I also mounted a pegboard on the left to hold my spinny props.As the largest open space in my house, this area does double duty with my housemates’ VR setup (note the sensor mounted at the top right), so we need to be able to quickly cover all the mirrors to minimize sensor confusion. I picked up 5 yards of cream lining from the fabric store and sewed a tunnel top to make some sweet floor length curtains. Bonus: they make the space look bigger and conceal the cracked mirror edges :) -- source link

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