Tips on wall mirror decoration
Written for informational purposes
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Decorating your house with wall mirrors is a very good idea since they can brighten up your place. However, there are some things you need to know before you start buying mirrors and placing them on your walls.
The perfect spot
The first question you need to ask yourself is where to install them. A wall mirror is a very elegant decoration but if it is misplaced, it can destroy everything. The purpose of a mirror is to reflect everything and in your house giving the benefit of an extra space illusion. While searching for the right wall to install your new piece of decoration, you should consider where the mirror would give the best impression of space in the room.
Be precise
In addition to this, you need to think about the size of the wall mirror you want in your place. Should you hang it on the wall or it should take up the whole surface? If you want your mirror to be installed all over your wall, you should be very accurate on the length when you order one. A centimetre bigger or smaller it could ruin the decoration. Also, in this case you would probably ask the help of an expert so as to install the mirror on the wall.
Mix and match
If you want to hang a mirror on your wall, the thing you need to consider the most is the frame. You need a frame that matches up with the rest of the room including everything, from furniture to the smallest piece of decoration. Not only the design and style should be taken into consideration but the shape, the material and the color too. Oval wall mirrors are the most difficult to match up with furniture but when they do, they give a definitely unique and stylish touch in the place. Once, I have been in a house with a large wall mirror in the living room. The sofas and the chairs were all purple and silver. The huge red framed wall mirror was the oddest piece of furniture in the house, since nothing else was red in there! Color is a major aspect when it comes to decoration and you should try to imagine exactly what the result will be when choosing colored frames for your mirrors. So you should think it through before you end up with a mirror that does not match, even if you like it as an individual piece at the store.
Who needs frames?
Sometimes a framed wall mirror is not the best choise. You can avoid having to choose frames for your mirrors, choosing unframed ones for your walls. In this case you will not have to worry about the colour and the material of the frame and it is definitely less expensive. The clue here is that the rest of the room shouldn’t be very busy. This means that unframed mirrors go along with the theme “Less is more”. If you have way too much furniture in the room, they will not add something to it and it would be a useless decoration.
Wall mirrors are very nice decorations but if they are handled wrongly, they could not have a very good outcome. Please consider these advices before you buy one and you would not regret your purchase.
I want to thank the blogger very much not only for this post but also for his all previous efforts. I found wallmirrorguide.com to be extremely interesting. I will be coming back to wallmirrorguide.com for more information.
Joen Baldwin
21 Feb 10 at 7:38 am
Hey! Nice work! Thanks for collecting all this information on mirrors in one place. I was wondering if you have any tips on whole wall mirror decoration. I am thinking about refreshing my whole decoration eith mirrors and I’d like to do this the right way. If a post about whole wall mirrors is not in you recent plans please pm me. Thank you a lot!
Cubpaxia
23 Feb 10 at 4:53 am
I like the layout of your blog and I’m going to do the same thing for mine. It is not about wall mirrors, not even about decoration at all, but I think it is going to work great for me too. Do you have any tips? Please PM me. Thank you!
Abbey Bridgeford
5 Mar 10 at 10:12 am
I always find that it’s very interesting on how differing people can view a room and see the various strategies to arrange furniture inside it. I enjoy your observations and insights and definitely will look forward to implementing some of your ideas when they’re appropriate to my scenario.
Eakin1771@yahoo.com
8 Mar 10 at 10:03 pm
I generally don’t post comments on blogs, but I’ve been reading a lot on this topic recently, so I just could not resist. Posts here helped me a lot in my research about wall decoration, so I wanted to thank you.
Pribyl
11 Mar 10 at 10:22 pm
Thanks for the info… I’ll put it to good use! Any tips about whole wall mirrors? I want to cover a whole wall and I’d appreciate your thoughts, hints and tips. Thanks again!
Turf San Diego
16 Mar 10 at 11:48 pm
Great posts! I truly appreciate your research and I can tell that your wall decoration tips have helped me a lot. My brand new rectangular wall mirror and I, thank you a lot!
Keep up the good work!
Diego
22 Mar 10 at 4:55 am
I absolutely agree with every word you have written in this article about wall mirror frames! According to your opinion, should we use a rectangular or oval mirror in our bathroom? Thank you! Alex.
Alexander74
26 Mar 10 at 3:36 am
I have several rectangular wall mirrors in my house that are very thin-framed and I was wandering weather changing the frames will upgrade my decoration or not. There is only one whole wall mirror in the living room that has no frame. All the others have thin white frames – about 3cm all around the mirror. I would appreciate any suggestion. Thanks!
Lovie Brown
31 Mar 10 at 12:21 am
Hi! Great work and very extensive research! I am about to design a whole room in my house from scratch. The idea is to cover every single wall with a whole wall mirror. Wall mirrors all over the place will be creating this funky – reflect to infinity – effect that is my favorite! I want to do it perfect right from the start, without having to replce, cut or break any of the mirrors. Firstly, I’d like to ask you weather the whole concept sounds good to you or not. Secondly, I’d like to have your opinion about the floor and the ceiling. Do you think it would be a good idea to add mirrors there too? And if I do, what would be the better way to do it? I’d really like to have your opinion on this. Your tips, your sugessions and any kind of help will be useful! Thank you very much for your time. I’ll be waiting for an answer in my e-mail if you don’t mind. Thank you!
John Ch
1 Apr 10 at 8:43 am
Decoration using wall mirrors was one of my ideas when I was decorating my own house in 2008. The only problem I had was matching the decoration of the bathroom with the rest decoration of the house. Do you have any ideas on matching vintage handcrafted large wall mirrors with modern decorated bathroom? Are there any bathroom decorative elements that I could add and change the whole feeling in there? I would appreciate your thoughts on this. Looking forward for future posts, thank you for your time! Keep it up!
Steward C
16 Apr 10 at 10:18 am
Hi! I am a painter and the project that I am up to this year is kind of tricky and it is very relevant with reflections. The reason I want to buy wall mirrors is not to decorate my house but combine them with some of my paintings in a mysterious way, so I’d like to find a lot of mirrors with handcrafted frames in lots of different shapes but in very low prices! Do you know where I could find very cheap wall mirrors? Please contact me! Thank you very much!
Allessandro
16 Apr 10 at 8:54 pm
I love my wall mirrors and I was trying to figure out a new way to make something new out of their decorating potential without having to change a lot of my decoration or buying new furniture. The idea is to place me wall mirrors opposite to my whole wall mirror in my living room but I not sure about the result. I could have just try it to see if it works but it is a quite big change and I’m not in the mood of making continuous changes just to find the perfect spots. I’d like to ask you if there is a way to know the result from the start before placing a wall mirror. Do you know where I could find something like a guide to wall mirror placement? It could be a software or some generic tips and suggestions. By the way, I’ll be checking out your site for new posts. I really find them very interesting. Keep up the good work! Thank you!
Michelle D
20 Apr 10 at 2:46 am
Thanks for the insightful tips! The fact that you have collected so much information about wall mirrors is amazing! Good job! Keep it up!
Dalila Apalategui
24 May 10 at 2:18 pm
Cool tips! Large wall mirrors, just like whole wall mirrors are a bit difficult to match into an interior. Your tips helped me very much to find the best large wall mirror for my living room, as well as the perfect spot to install it. Although I had to move some furniture, the final result was perfect! Thanks for your suggestions! Keep it up!
Shelly Carlson
31 May 10 at 8:50 pm