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Kitchen Mirror / Whole Home Display
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I built this in 2019 and its been rock solid, and figured i should post some pictures of what i started with and where i’m at today :)
I must say this mirror is probably the most used item in our house, since we share a family calendar it’s our goto to know what we are doing each day. My wife loves it and everyone that sees it is blown away:)What i ended up doing is taking a mirror and frame we liked and dismantled it by removing the actual mirror. I then replaced it with two way mirror and built a frame to hold the TV (42") and mounted it the visible frame around the mirror.
Final Product:
To make a clean look i cut out the wall, removed a stud in the middle and did a french cleat system to hang the mirror with a flush look.Dismantling the TV:
Building the frame to support the TV:
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@python wow, recessed in the wall and everything. How did you prep the glass? With a film or other coating?
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@conjaputo said in Kitchen Mirror / Whole Home Display:
@python wow, recessed in the wall and everything. How did you prep the glass? With a film or other coating?
I was lucky enough to get a 4x8 sheet of two way mirror from work which i cut down to fit the frame.
Hindsight, they were throwing out about 6 of those panels… i should of took them all realizing how much they are worth for future projects!
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Very nice … I really like how thin it is. You might have been able to get away without recessing it.
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@ruff-hi said in Kitchen Mirror / Whole Home Display:
Very nice … I really like how thin it is. You might have been able to get away without recessing it.
Without recessing it would cause the mirror to protrude about 3" from the wall which would look weird from the side.
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@python said in Kitchen Mirror / Whole Home Display:
Without recessing it would cause the mirror to protrude about 3" from the wall which would look weird from the side.
3" … it certainly doesn’t look that thick. After scanning your picks again, I noticed that I completely forgot to comment on your weimaraner dogs :)
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@ruff-hi said in Kitchen Mirror / Whole Home Display:
@python said in Kitchen Mirror / Whole Home Display:
Without recessing it would cause the mirror to protrude about 3" from the wall which would look weird from the side.
3" … it certainly doesn’t look that thick. After scanning your picks again, I noticed that I completely forgot to comment on your weimaraner dogs :)
I framed it with 2-1/4" trim board and if you add 1/2" thickness of the actualy mirror fram its 2-3/4", i rounded lol. I just wanted a clean look that looked like a mirror hanging on the wall :)
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@python What modules are you running? The house plan temperature one looks interesting!
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Amazing job!!! I too love the way you have recessed it into the wall. That is my plans for my kitchen display. I also love the way you took the TV apart. Do you have a specific resolution of TV?
Do you have any power buttons so you don’t have to take it off the wall?
But kudos you did an amazing job!!!
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@joberbroeckling said in Kitchen Mirror / Whole Home Display:
Amazing job!!! I too love the way you have recessed it into the wall. That is my plans for my kitchen display. I also love the way you took the TV apart. Do you have a specific resolution of TV?
Do you have any power buttons so you don’t have to take it off the wall?
But kudos you did an amazing job!!!
It was an old LG tv i had and dismantled it. It was actually slightly smaller than the mirror so what i did was got black bristol boardand used that to fill in the perimeter gap that the TV didn’t fill in as the TV was smaller than the mirror.
For power control, i realzied that if i left the power ON to the TV and unplugged the power cord and plugged it back in, the tv resumed to its previous state. Knowing that i put a Sonoff Basic (https://sonoff.tech/product/diy-smart-switch/basicr2/) inline on the power cord from the recepticle to the TV and flashed the sonoff with tasmota firmware.
With Tasmota on the Sonoff, it allowed me to control the power via MQTT.
This is all integrated into my OpenHAB setup to control ON/OFF. If you look on the shelf you will see a little temperature/motion sensor sitting ontop of the easter frame. This is a Ecobee Sensor.
With openhab i can retrieve if the room is occupied based on the sensor status (PIR) and turn the mirror ON or OFF. In the morning have openhab turn the mirror on before anyone gets up (6:30AM) so when you walk to the kitchen it’s already on and displaying the details.
