4 Ways To Improve Your Space With Mirrors

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4 Ways To Improve Your Space With Mirrors

28 January 2016
 Categories: Home & Garden, Blog


When it comes to adding a bit of flair or panache to your house, there are many things that might immediately come to mind, everything from remodeling your living room to making sure that your house is adequately lit. One of the things that is often times glossed over when it comes to space improvement is how to use mirrors to really enhance the rooms in your house or apartment. Throughout the course of this brief article, you will learn about 4 specific ways to improve your space with the help of mirrors.

Enhancing Light

Want to make sure your room is more than adequately lit? There's more that you can do than simply buying more light fixtures and lamps; mirrors can help you with this equation. Many cramped spaces sometimes do not receive enough natural light, for example; mirrors can help you out of this situation. With the careful placement of mirrors, you can ensure that the light that does make it into your room can be reflected, thus enhancing the room and flourishing it with extra light. If you have a window on a wall that does not allow for adequate sunlight, a carefully placed floor mirror or movable wall mirror can give off the appearance that your room is directly in the course of the sun's movement.

Increase Space

No, mirrors can't physically increase the space of a room, but they can often create the illusion that a room is much bigger than it actually is. Mirrors have recently become popular in kitchens, as careful placement of several mirrors can create the illusion that you're working in a giant open space, as opposed to the cramped kitchen space that you are currently utilizing. Giving off the illusion that you're working in a much bigger space than you are can be comforting. This is especially the case in rooms that are, by their nature, small. People have been utilizing multiple mirror placement in bathrooms for years to create the illusion that they're in a much bigger space than they are.

Look Around You!

Mirrors can help increase the visibility in your room. Many people find it disconcerting that they do not have full visibility of their room at all times. Carefully placed mirrors can help solve this issue by allowing you the visibility that you so desire at all times. If you are happy with the placement of your desk, aside from the fact that you cannot see the entrance to your office, for example, then a carefully-placed movable wall mirror can help solve this conundrum for you in no time flat. You'll be able to see who is entering your office at all times without having to get up from your desk placement situation.

Artfulness

It's clear that mirrors have an incredible use value, but did you know that mirrors can enhance the aesthetic integrity of your home as well? There are numerous ways to have a mirror increase the artfulness of your home. For example, this can be something as simply framing a mirror with an aesthetically pleasing frame that complements the design of your room. There are other ways that mirrors can add to the aesthetic integrity of a room. Mirror designs that are a bit unusual can add to the uniqueness and singularity of a room. Test a few out and see how they look.