Although most of us have a pretty good idea on where to hang a mirror in our home, they're often times far more versatile than we initially think. They can be one the best tools in the small space owner's back pocket and our personal opinion is that you can never have too many!
1. Group Them Together: While larger mirrors can be quite pricey, many of us don't have the budget for such things. Smaller mirrors are found at discount or thrift stores quite easily and with a super small price tag on them. Paint their frames all the same color and group them on the wall in the same place. The look will be organized without feeling cluttered.
2. Behind The Stove: Although they're bound to get a little greasy or dirty eventually, it's not like mirrors don't clean up easily. Behind your stovetop is traditionally a rather dark area in your kitchen. A mirror will bounce any available light around, not only making it easier to see the meal you're preparing, but make it a more enjoyable place to stand.
3. Turn Them On Their Side: This trick works especially well when using longer skinny mirrors, try turning your mirror on its side. This trick works best with long skinny mirrors, but it makes any wall look longer instantly.
4. Cabinet Fronts: Although you can use this trick in other places of the home, the kitchen is the ideal location for this DIY project. Glue mirrored tiles to the front of your cabinet fronts to reflect the world around you. Maybe you'll just do the tops, or just the bottoms, but either way we think it's a curious technique, especially in small spaces!
5. Next To Your Dining Room Table: One of Maxwell's favorite places for a mirror is right next to the dining room table. Like you see in many restaurants around the world, this allows for softer lighting to be used, while still keeping the area light and bright. Think of it as mood lighting that still allows you to see your dinner plate!
6. Floor Length: Floor length mirrors are great ways to make any space feel taller. Their long shape draws the eye up and carrying it around the room, making any space feel lighter and brighter. Place them behind a grouping of furniture or out on their own.
7. Layer Them Up: Why have just one mirror when you can have several? By making an entire wall mirrored and then adding smaller, defined mirrors on top, not only are you creating a larger more open-feeling space, but you'll also be giving depth to the space without weighing things down.
8. Fake A Window: Although our dream small space is packed with windows, we know that's not really a reality for many. Instead, try using small square mirrors, tiled out to look like a window to give the illusion of what you wish was there, instead of what really is.
9. Beautiful Backsplashes: We keep coming back to the kitchen, but there's so many ways to use mirrors in this well used room. The backsplash is the perfect place for a little reflection. It will make any under counter lighting extra bright or allow you to go without such things and use the natural light throughout the room.
10. Fake Mirrored Furniture: Like covering your cabinets above, you can fake expensive designer prices and simply use a glass cutter and mirrored tile found at your hardware store. Although it's a more labor intensive option, the results can be quite amazing if you're starting with a piece that has good shape to it already.
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I have a floor length mirror at the end of our hallway. I think that was a tip mentioned in the past.
There's something sexy about those mirrors on the upper cabinet doors...
the danger with mirrors is how readily they convey, in non-traditional placements, an impression of narcissism. that's what the mirror by the dining table says to me, for example.
I'm not a big fan of mirrors, maybe 'cause I don't like looking into them. ;) I think too many or too big can make a place look dated.
What's wrong with an impression of narcissism? Gotta love a well-placed mirror... although I agree that too many can look dated.
Thank you much for the exposure! I love the other examples too! Shelley at www.decorhate.com
There are some good ideas in here - I just wish it was easier to follow (ie - the pictures match up with the captions in some sort of logical order)
I love a lot of these examples, though a mirror blacksplash in the kitchen is one of my pet peeves -- utterly impractical.
The last one looks kind of tacky to me, and I partially agree with thorndale on number 2. The mirrors in the second photo do give a cluttered effect in several places. A mirrored backsplash requires a very carefully curated countertop.
The mirror by the dining table just seems inappropriate. In most restaurants I can think of that use mirrors they have an entire wall, which creates an illusion of space, not an identifiable single mirror which, as le_sacre says, seems a bit narcissistic.
The tiled mirrors for a window just don't seem to quite pull of what they are supposed to imitate. It's interesting to look at, but it doesn't get the effect that the text says the method is going for.
The collection of red framed mirrors, the mirrored upper cabinets, and the layered mirror bathroom seem to me the best uses in this whole round up, although like ckhoover I wish there wasn't the confusion around which photo goes with which chunk of text. One and two match up but then there's some sort of disconnect and there seem to be two photos for tip 3 and none for tip 6. The photographers did an amazing job of staying out of the pics. I wonder if photoshop was used in any of them (particularly the second photo).
Excellent use of mirrors to make the space look larger!!
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Is it wrong that any mirror within 5ive feet of a cooking surface looks like a sentence for endless cleaning duties to me?
Mirrored backsplash: gorgeous in theory, a horror in practice. Getting toothpaste and water spots off the bathroom mirror is one thing -- how many of us have had to deal with trying to get grease off mirrors? This and mirrored bathroom vanities -- I'd love to look at them, but I'd have to have accompanying hourly maid service to keep it looking nice. Given my regrettable reality, PASS.
I wouldn't choose a mirrored backsplash just for looks but if you need to open up a dark, cramped kitchen with no natural light, it makes a huge difference and it is really not that hard to keep clean. Although I've never had one behind the stove, just behind the sink.
We placed a narrow, heavily foxed mirror in a friend's tiny garden, just behind some trailing fronds and Whamo! Instant depth, movement and mystery.
Something similar happens when you place a mirror at the end of a dark hallway that just happens to have a window onto a garden at the other end of it. Magic!
I tell my clients to always think about what view the mirrors will reflect. Good or bad, with a mirror you will see it twice.