apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

Ooh. Nice trick. Where is the table from, please? I like.

i like! reminds me of a former colleague who hung a mirror on the wall directly across from his desk, so that he could see the manhattan skyline behind him, each time he looked up from his work.

It does look lovely, but I wouldn't like to keep catching chance glimpses of myself as I eat.

i like the idea but who wants to see a reflection of the frig and the microwave?

Kat1: I was thinking the same thing! A mirror in the little dining area off my kitchen would only reflect ... the kitchen! I've put my dining table in one corner of the living room instead, precisely because I don't want to see the kitchen when I'm entertaining. (I use the little room as a home office instead.)

I used the same principle for my dining area mirror but it's more a mirror "sculpture": Kind of a patchwork of multiple mirrors at various angles so it's mostly just sparkly shots of color and light. instead of a mere reflection of the opposite side of the room.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10854279@N00/

OK so I tried this about 8 months ago, only to wake up to the sound of the mirror crashing to the floor (thankfully it didn't break). I used some "mirror-hanging" tape I found...so much for that.

What kind of tape did you use? How much of it? Is it removable (I rent)?

Does anyone know where to find those great white chairs? Who makes them?

Just because that's the reflection in the photo, doesn't mean it's the reflection from every seat at that table.

would you call that mirror blocking, like color blocking? great idea, subtle and allows use of different surfaces and textures.

regarding mirrors in an eating area, i just had a thought that they use mirrors in nice restaurants all the time to do that bigger space trick!

There's a big "see and be seen" factor to restaurant mirrors. And so people facing walls don't feel shortchanged.

hi bradfjordCA- it's actually an IKEA ROGER chair I painted white, click here for how I did it

"Just because that's the reflection in the photo, doesn't mean it's the reflection from every seat at that table."

It looks to be so, or they would have taken the photo from another angle and/or submitted those to the story and not that one, plus another one from a few steps further back.

I'm sorry, I'm over this "great idea". This mirror in this story particularly fits in with a horizontal stripe around the room, but more and more I'm getting the "hey, that's just a cheap wardrobe mirror" feeling from the dimensions, and it's so Christopher Lowell, theatrical-tricky, your guests will not be able to tell the difference and be uber-impressed with how clever you are! I don't know what the need to emulate restaurant decor at home vis-a-vis the mirror is, but restaurants try to have some class too. The horizontal mirrors in trio is something I'd also call a fad. Cheaply renovating with wardrobe mirrors, and in general wanting to use mirrors instead of art on the walls is kind of.. weird, in my opinion obviously. A nice mirror is nice, it's art to look at as well as to reflect your artfully designed room. A small but interesting mirror optimally placed can be decorative but practical. Admiring a narrow horizontal vista of your kitchen while you eat is.... it's not going to look very nice unless you put everything away before you served dinner, and even then, it's a kitchen. Maybe it's cute, but it's not anyone famous, or even a view of the sexy bedroom.

i'm not a fan of the mirror over the dining space, in either image. i don't think either reflect anything so special. since i'm not in the rooms though, i cannot tell if they enhance the space. but the image with the clock over the mirror just doesn't work for me. the scale is off, imho. the two together look like competing shapes of relatively equal proportion stuck one on top of the other. the clock alone would be much better or if you must have the mirror, then the mirror alone. Sorry. But to each their own….

This one works because it is just above the heads of the seated diners. And it is integrated into a design, rather than used as wall-filler. I like it very much.

I love this! I had to look several times before I really understood it wasn't a slice cut out of the wall, and integrating it into that stripe is pure genius--I thought the entire thing was a mirror reflecting the room behind.
Definitely a trick I will steal--Thanks!

would be lovely in a hospital room.

The mirror is too high to reflect candlelight, and too low to reflect a chandelier, if there was one. If it was opposite a window with great view, it would be fabulous. Since I can't bear to eat in the kitchen, why would I want to see more of the kitchen?

K T G--

Um, yeah. The people at each seat have a different view. That's how reflected angles work.