If your home is anything like ours your builder took extra time to pick out attractive mirrors for your bathrooms, hehe. Kidding of course we all know builders do what they can for the bare minimum. Case in point our builder grade mirror glued to the wall! I decided I wanted to give one of our mirrors an update, but this time instead of adding trim I thought it would be fun to add tiles to our mirror! I also didn’t want to have to grout my mirror so I figured out a way to have a no grout mosaic tile mirror!
MATERIALS:
Scotch Clear Mounting Tape
Scissors
Utility Knife
Mosaic Tiles – a few different colors
Mirror
Start off by cleaning the mirror surface to remove any debris or oils.
I wanted my border to be 3 tiles thick. Cut mosaic tiles into three tile sections (or whichever size you desire). Remove tiles in various places to create space for other colors. Try to make your pattern work so where the tiles meet at the edges it’s not awkward.
Add other colored tiles to create a pattern. You can pull the colors you are filling in from full sheets. 
Once the pattern is competed remove all of the tiles from the backing, making sure to trim any stray edges of mesh.
Cut strips of the Scotch Clear Mounting Tape to desired lengths. Two full strips per side of the mirror, by removing one side of the plastic backing on the Scotch Clear Mounting Tape. Remove outside red cover on the Scotch Clear Mounting tape pulling up only 10” sections. This will keep debris off of the rest of the tape while you set your tiles.
Place tiles onto the tape pressing firm. Continue with the pattern you have designed. If you would like any mirror to show through leave small spaces in between the tiles. Another option would be to place the tiles directly next to one another so no space is visible. Continue removing sections of the tape covering and placing tiles until your mirror border is complete.
In no time flat your mirror will be customized to your home! No more boring builder grade mirror!
This is so awesome-I love it!!
Thank you! It really was a fun project to make!
Great idea!! And I love how it turned out. 🙂
Such a great idea!
What a great shortcut!
Great idea and I love the colors of tile you chose.
That turned out gorgeous! And no grout… even better!
I have been wanting to try them! And what a fun project to use them on 🙂
This is so cool – love that its no-grout! Grout always drives me crazy!
So pretty! I love how easy it is!
I’ve never though to you clear mounting tape in place of grout for tile, but it certainly looks wonderful on your project. The tile frame around the mirror is very clean and unique for a bathroom, and I’m excited to follow your step by step instructions to recreate it in my own bathroom. The tile in mine, however, is why and blue, so I will do those colors instead of the green and blue that yours had. Do you know what the smallest size tile is I could use for this project and still have it look nice?
I really like your idea and would like to try it but I was wondering if anyone has had problems with the tiles falling off because the tape adhesive has lost it effectiveness?
So far so good! The tiles are still in tact and none have fallen off. The 3M tape is serious business!
How did you hang the mirror?
Yes, I did! After 3 days the tiles starting falling, I believe the moisture from hot shower affected the adhesive. E6000 glue works great ! A lot of work, time consuming to redo it but is still there! Good luck!
I’m actually in the middle of this project for my kids’ bathroom and a question occurred to me. Since you did not grout, have you had issues with dirt or buildup between the glass tiles? Knowing how messy my kids are, I’m wondering about the ability to keep this looking nice and clean long term. It doesn’t help that the tiles I chose are fairly transparent so visible crud building up behind them will not be a good look. Thanks in advance!!
I did a similar project on the mirror that is attached to the wall and used silicon glue and the tiles stayed nicely…I left no space between..I also grouted a smaller mirror when I mirrored my builders grade medicine cabinet with 1/2 inch tiles around
This looks really cute and super easy! It’s a good way to add color to any bathroom. Thanks for sharing!
This looks so cute! I want to try this for my bathroom mirror, and I love the colors you chose. Thanks for sharing!