Today in home design ambitions: The Mirror Wall

Forgive my possible idea theft. I know I've seen this cool decor project in some (perhaps multiple) magazines or catalogs at some (perhaps multiple) times before. However, it just sank in: I very much want to take a boring wall of a small room in my apartment, paint it a fun color like robin's-egg blue or burnt-marigold yellow, and then hang a bunch of different-size mirrors in a looks-random-but-

was-actually-thought-about-for-days pattern. While I could scour every vintage furniture store and mirror shop within a 1.5-mile radius of my home and lug home all my finds, this seems like a perfect project for eBay. This morning I found five items that are ideal to start me off: this round art deco style, this enormous distressed Victorian-looking piece, an oblong curvy model, a carved look, and this one, my favorite, which looks'and opens up'like a porthole.