Actually ALL of my inspiration was from that blog. I pretty much copied her technique because I loved how her's turned out.
For my project I used around seven packs of twelve inch wood shims. I'm sure I got funny looks in Lowes when I picked up my bundle of 294 wood shims.
Before glueing, I designed the entire starburst just how I wanted it. Once I liked the shape of the starburst, I began glueing each of the shims into rays (group of 6-10 shims). Again, I straightened those out and finished the task by glueing all of the rays together. I used three tubes of construction adhesive.
(Note: Drew Babe sweetly let me know that I probably most likely definitely didn't need nearly that much construction adhesive. Guess when I was squirting on the glue, I was just being overly cautious and making sure my starburst was not going to fall apart. Live and learn.)
You might notice that all of the rays are not the same size. I wanted to create the general shape of the starburst, without everything being perfect.
In order to give the starburst some stability and to provide an anchor for hanging on the wall, I glued a 16x16 piece of thin plywood to the back.
Once it was all together, I gave it a light sand and spray painted it with a classic starburst color. I thought about doing a fun color or even white, but settled on the metallic gold. It would be an easy fix if I wanted to change it later.
Since our Michael's decides to be out of everything that I need (turns out they have discontinued their frameless mirror supply), I had to order a twelve inch round mirror online from Hobby Lobby. Even with shipping it turned out to be pretty inexpensive.
Here's how it turned out:
It definitely does its job by filling up the big wall.
Now, Drew has a mirror on his side of the bed as well :)
Has anyone else caught the Pinterest bug?
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