Our daughter moved from home to go to university last fall. I was gagging for making her some furniture, such as the dining table or sofa table, but she beat me to it by buying them second hand from online forums. She said she wanted a mirror and I was more than happy to make it. Problem was I couldn’t get more specific wishes about the style and size out of her, as she was very busy on other things.
I solved this with the iterative method, i.e. first made a ”speculative piece” to get her feedback on it. It worked. ”This is really really nice, as every fine piece of furniture you make, dad. But [and then got the specs for the right one, which she really likes].
I let you guess which one is which!
Both have mitered corners strenghtened with splines. One has decorative fluting which I made on a router table and a round bit. One has decorative plugs in the corner joints, covering the empty holes for said decorative plugs.