Thursday, December 10, 2009

Ballard Designs Look Alike For Less

I had been wanting a mirror for my dining room for about 2 years or so. But I'm cheap so I never bought one. I found this mirror several weeks ago at Old Time Pottery. (I know, yet another OTP find. What am I going to do when they close?) This one was priced at $29.99, which seemed too much for my cheap brain. I left it in the store, but I kept thinking about it. Picturing how it would look at the wall. Wondering if I would ever find another one like it. After a week or so of thinking, I finally went back and bought it. Here she is fitting perfectly on my dining room wall between the two little shelves that were already on the wall.

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Imagine my pleasant surprise when I received a Ballard Designs catalog in the mail last week. While flipping through the glorious pages of overpriced goodies, I came across the image below.



Wow, that looks familiar. Guess the price tag on their version? $199 for the pair. That's $99.50 per mirror. Quite a bit more than my $29.99 find that seems to be a bit of a bargain now.

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Yep, I adore that mirror. It really helps to bounce some extra light around the room because the doors to the deck are on the wall directly opposite the mirror. I now think it is well worth the $29.99.

6 comments:

  1. Hi Sara -- Way to go on the mirrors! Good score. Thanks for your nice comment on our lamp-base trees last week. Sorry to be slow in responding. Seems like life is on fast foward since Thanksgiving. Come see me again. xo

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  2. That was an awesome deal! It looks exactly like the Ballard mirror! You did good. :)
    Have a great day! Beth.

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  3. Score!! That is a fabulous mirror, and I know you are sad about one of your favorite stores closing. Maybe you will be able to get some good clearance deals during their liquidation. Happy Holidays!

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  4. Love the mirror... I didn't know they were going out of business! I am going to have to head over to our local store.

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  5. Not all the Old Time Pottery stores are closing, just some of them are. Ours happens to be one of the ones closing and they are having a liquidation sale. =(

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