Hanging Mirrors in Front of Windows Metropolitan Home

Hanging Mirrors in Front of Windows
Metropolitan Home

We are obsessed with mirrors — and we're obsessed with windows. So imagine our delight when we spotted this clever mirror/window hybrid design in the pages of Metropolitan Home.

We spotted this bathroom in the October issue of Metropolitan Home. Sure, the implementation is high-end and we don't necessarily love the two mirrors — but the idea could easily be translated. Perhaps the only spot you can put a bedroom dresser is under a window but you also really want a mirror above your dresser. You could hang a mirror from two chains from the top of the window frame. Granted, we'd be hesitant to cut out the slice of light that you'd lose by hanging a mirror in a window. Still might be fun to try.

For more photos of the amazing home of Moises Esquenazi and Bryan Graybill, visit Metropolitan Home for the slideshow.

Have you ever hung a mirror in front of a window?

Image: Antoine Bootz

Comments (13)

Wow, that is gorgeous!

posted by Petra- Designfragment on September 28th 2009 at 2:10pm
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Looks like the money you could have saved with Geico.

posted by Archie on September 28th 2009 at 2:15pm
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Archie, I'm still laughing hysterically! this is the funniest thing that's happened today!!!

Cheers!

posted by carrefour_ny on September 28th 2009 at 2:25pm
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hahahaha I agree with Archie.

It's silly. There's a reason why people don't hang mirrors or paintings in front of windows... becuase it looks a little odd from the inside, and it looks very peculiar from the outside......

posted by modern on long island on September 28th 2009 at 2:25pm
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No no no.

And that hat/wig head is hilarious. Looks more like a... you know... than a head.

posted by birdablaze on September 28th 2009 at 2:37pm
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Everything in this bathroom seems horribly impractical.

posted by kiljoywashere on September 28th 2009 at 3:15pm
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Although Archie is so very right, I kinda like it anyway.

posted by Curtis on September 28th 2009 at 3:28pm
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i just got my mag and that has to be one of my favorite dream rooms ever.

posted by zachary on September 28th 2009 at 4:29pm
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This is horrible. I'm sure you can walk around but it looks like you have to step over the tub to get to the vanity and you are blocking the view with those mirrors.

posted by funstraw on September 28th 2009 at 4:42pm
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So much wrong. I don't know where to begin.

posted by nohj on September 28th 2009 at 6:06pm
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I grew up in a house that was built in 1900. The house had oversized double hung windows. In the main bathroom we replaced the bottom portion of a window with a mirror on the inside and textured glass on the outisde. The window was right above the sink and as a child I thought it was the coolest thing ever!

posted by ashlark on September 28th 2009 at 6:44pm
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Birdablaze, I bet the editors @ Metropolitan Home didn't catch that one!

And the room just doesn't feel right to me.

posted by Neely the Naughty on September 29th 2009 at 12:08pm
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What a mess. I remember thinking the same things when I first saw this in Met Home. The mirrors are the worst part though, they look like huge versions of the cheap make up mirrors with the fluorescent light around it from the 1980s. The tub is totally in the way. Also, who wants to have a sliding door to the bedroom from the bathroom? It's like they really wanted all the elements and forced it into the small space.

posted by AlexPDL on September 29th 2009 at 1:32pm
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