This is a beautiful mirror. The frame is a soft wood composite, painted silver. The silver paint on the frame easily comes off, and my mirror arrived with a couple spots of scratched off paint, and dents in the frame. The frame is soft wood and easily dented in shipping. All that said, this is a beautiful mirror and looks more elegant and expensive than equivalent mirrors sold at the big box stores. The mirror that looks like this one sold at the big box store for slightly cheaper has a silver painted plastic frame.