Sure, there are all kinds of mirror clips for hanging a plain old mirror on the wall. There are those clear plastic shell-shaped ones that are, sadly, pretty prevalent. But one type looks pretty good (in that it almost disappears) and can make a simple sheet of mirrored glass look pretty chic...
It's the (almost) invisible mirror clip. We like the ones with squared edges, as they're most minimal, but they're available with curved edges, too.
We recently saw these used in a friend's bathroom where the entire upper half of the wall was a sheet of mirror, the lower half tile. It really opened up the space and you barely notice the clips when they're used on such a large sheet of glass.
We found clips like this at Richelieu and C.R. Laurence, and we're going to look for them at our local hardware store next time we're there.
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With the screws behind the mirror, do you have to slide the mirror in from the side? That would seem pretty tricky.
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mirrors are best suited for young people :-)
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We were going to replace plastic lips with these when staging our old house for sale, but then we found out the mirror was glued to the wall anyhow, so we just removed the plastic and added that mirror framing material discussed here once that is sold by Lowes and jazzes up a sheet mirror.
Anyhow, I don't remember the instructions exactly, but I think you install the bottom clips into studs with screws in the round holes, put the top clips up more loosely with screws in the long holes, set the mirror into the bottom clips, slide the upper clips up, push the mirror to the wall, then lower the upper clips onto the edge of the mirror to secure it.
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Oops, that's "plastic Clips"!
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@Jon_B - the top clips have an oval slot for the screws - you push them all the way up, set the mirror in the bottom clips, lean against the back piece of the top clips, slide the top clips down into place. That makes much more sense when you're doing it. These are the only kind of mirror clips I use. Some Home Depots carry them.
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Thanks all. I just cut our full-wall mirror down to size and remounted with low-profile Z-shaped ( ,-' ) clips. I'm going to frame it with our door trim (not typical door trim, old-school multi-piece stuff). Either way, I'm going to have to cut out some void space in the back of the trim to fit snug against the mirror.
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UWSider, that's funny and true. I thought I was the only one who avoided mirrors. I used to hate to visit my mother's high-rise condo, which had entire walls done in mirrors to enhance the views. Walking around in there was like having an evil fairy whispering in your ear all the time, "you need to lose weight, do something with your hair, your skin looks terrible, are those the best clothes you could come up with?" Oh... or maybe that was my mother talking.
There were mirrored walls and huge sheets of mirror in the bathrooms in my current home when I bought it. They were all removed. These days I take the monk's view of mirrors: mirrors in the bathrooms just big enough to see your face and perform necessary grooming, and one full-length mirror to make sure your clothes match. Other than that, it's a couple of small mirrors around the house reflecting light into dark spaces.
(Sherry, bigger sheets of mirror are always glued to the wall, and the clips are just added security.)
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A round unframed mirror I bought from Ikea a few years ago uses this kind of clip. If you want to try using a few, (they're about a little over an inch), you might just check in at Ikea's customer service, where they sell replacement hardware. (I don't see the mirror on the Ikea website, but the Vanna with the black elastics comes close, and it says mounting hardware's included, so it's prob the same hardware.)
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In my Japanese bath, we had a mirror that was held with these types of clips. The mirror was stuck on the wall at thigh/buttocks level because it was there for Japanese people who sat on a low shower stool to shave while washing before entering the bath. For 19 years, I had to worry about the way the clips allowed the mirror to slide around when it was brushed against when I turned around close to the wall in the shower. I constantly feared it crashing to the tile floor and shattering at my bare feet. Last year, it finally did just that.
I would be very careful about using these clips and how they are positioned. Never put up a mirror with them which contact might be made with or which children or pets are able to brush against.
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Online, the set of 4 mirror clips that my round Ikea mirror came with--2 are "fixed", the others are spring-loaded.
http://www.technologylk.com/product/1497/CRL-EZ-Mount-Mirror-Clips/4677/655/CRL-E-Z-Mount-Mirror-Clip-Set-655.htm?src=froogle
And the clip shown at the top of this entry: called on this website a "Vancouver" clip; a similar version with different cutout is the "Denver" clip--dunno what the real difference is:
http://www.technologylk.com/catalog/2962/CRL-Vancouver-Mirror-Clips/
This website has a lot of different mirror-hanging clips, I see.
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