Mirror Design Ideas

Posted by Eric Morgan on 6th May 2014

Wall mirrors help liven up spaces, making them feel bright, refreshing and modern. Mirrors actually help trick the mind into thinking spaces are larger and more spacious. Whether homes have an eclectic, vintage, traditional, classic, modern or contemporary vibe, there are a wide variety of unique wall mirrors to accommodate all styles of home decor.

Maximizing Mirrors

There are several ways that you can incorporate mirrors into your home, helping you maximize the use of mirrors throughout your personal space.

Light – Mirrors add much-needed light to rooms. By properly positioning mirrors, rooms feel less depressing and visually dazzling. To help achieve this easy-to-accomplish look, you can place mirrors opposite windows, as this helps redirect incoming light, essentially doubling the amount of natural light that enters homes. Consider placing mirrors just slightly below window level, so sunrises or sunsets don’t blind you.
Entries – Most entryways are narrow. To help increase space and make these dimly lit areas feel brighter, add full-length mirrors to your entry, which will help give the appearance of windows.
Walls – Covering an entire wall in a group of mirrors helps add bright light to your apartments home or house. This is an excellent design tip for small spaces, as mirrors can open up hallways, bedrooms, closets, dining rooms and bathrooms.
Fireplaces – To give rooms a romantic glow, consider adding mirrors in living room areas. Mirrors will help reflect the soft, warm glow of fireplaces, making rooms feel bright and cheerful.
Mirrors – For small half bathroom areas that feel cramped and dark, consider having a custom-made mirror for your ceiling. This instantly elevates dark spaces, making them bright, inviting and attractive.
Lighting – Since mirrors reflect light, consider having mirrors serve dual purpose by adding a floor light or table light near mirrors. This allows mirrors to reflect both natural and artificial lights anytime of day or night.
Indoor Gardens – Indoor garden areas, including sunrooms and other natural-light infused areas, benefit from the addition of a mirror, as this helps rooms appear to have twice as many plants and flowers. Guests will surely be impressed by your attention to detail and green thumb!

Mirror Tips

Larger mirrors help reflect more space, so when choosing mirror size, take this key selection tip into consideration. Custom mirrors can also be used as surfaces for dining room tables, consoles, nightstands, coffee tables and other furniture surfaces. By incorporating mirrors onto surfaces, it helps to reflect light upwards, which adds an additional bright design element to your home. When using mirrors, consider following the latest designer trends and tips, as highlighted below.

Large Mirrors

Using large, oversized mirrors in tiny rooms helps create the spectacular illusion of depth. These oversized designs work especially well in dining room areas, reflecting room elements, such as detailed chandeliers, designer artwork or your collections.

Focal Points

Mirrors can be elevated to instant focal points, serving the place of upscale artwork. Whether it’s installing a mirror against a wall or resting it on the floor against a wall, mirrors instantly dress up rooms with a touch of upscale elegance. Instead of randomly hanging mirrors, consider carefully placing them in central locations that help add depth and warmth to interior designs. A single mirror can create a dramatic focal point, dressing up dark corners or adding soft glows to reading nooks. Mirrors should be placed in areas that reflect attractive focal points, not unsightly clutter.

Limited Rooms

Limit mirrors to certain rooms, preferably avoiding too many mirrors in bedrooms or kitchens. Mirror backsplashes can elevate kitchens, provided they are tasteful and don’t require abundant upkeep with unsightly watermarks and splashes.

According to feng shui experts, it’s best to avoid too many mirrors in your bedroom area, especially any areas that reflect your bed. Feng shui experts believe this type of energy is negative and promotes damaging and unconstructive forces.

Small Areas

Embrace livening up small areas with the addition of mirrors. Mirrors are outstanding lining entryways or even stairwells. Wall mirrors help reflect light, making these narrow areas feel modern and bright. Additionally, mirrors add a custom appearance to these common areas.

Mirrored Furniture

As previously discussed, mirrored furniture tops are a great way to capture brightness, year-round. Recently, modern-day designers have been creating mirrored furniture that includes mirrored panel dressers, vanities, nightstands, benches, lingerie chests and even wall panels. These upscale additions are perfect for your urban apartment or home, especially if you have minimal square footage and want to maximize your natural light. These designs are environmentally friendly, allowing you to use less electricity, while still maintaining a bright balance.

Bathrooms

Instead of the common, everyday bathrooms mirrors that are found in track homes across America, you can explore using unique mirror designs for bathroom areas, including powder rooms and five-piece bathrooms. Whether it’s embracing matching oversized his and her sinks, round mirrors that appear to “pop” from the wall or designing mirrors that offer the convenience of pivot-style features, these upscale mirrors will transform your bathroom into a peaceful and unique oasis.

Mirrored Furniture

Bathrooms

Blending Styles – Old-fashioned staircase banisters are instantly elevated with an eclectic mix of vintage, antique, contemporary and modern mirror designs. To help mirrors blend in with walls, consider choosing similar tone designs and colors. For designs that share similar shapes, consider placing mirrors at random distances to give stairwells a

magical, whimsical appearance.

Bedrooms – To abide by feng shui strategies while still adding an instant focal point to your bedroom, consider hanging a matching set of three wall mirrors above headboards. This adds light and instant warmth to bedroom areas.

Modern – For modern looks, embrace geometric designs, such as round mirrors or square mirrors. A wall of round mirrors has a dramatic, contemporary impact on modern-day homes.

Upscale Vintage – If your home reflects vintage, antique touches, consider using a variety of antique mirrors, pairing them with framed black and white or sepia tone family portraits.

Same Shape – For elongated, narrow hallways, consider choosing a specific geometric style, such as rectangular mirrors, and creating an overlapping gallery that includes vertical and horizontal pairings, that strategically reflects various focal points throughout your home.

Unification – To make several small mirrors appear larger, consider hanging them next to one another without any space or distance in between. At a glance, guests will assume this design reflects a single mirror, instead of an array of individual mirrors.

Sunburst Designs – The latest unique mirror style includes sunbursts designs, which are showing up in design showrooms nationwide. These distinctive mirrors have the added benefit of serving as individual focal points, which makes them a stunning addition to any room in your home.

Embracing Your Inner Artista

When hunting for mirror decor, it’s important for you to embrace your inner artist, challenging your creative side. While classic designs are tried and true, mixing and matching styles can create eye-popping focal points that transform rooms into artful masterpieces.

Don’t be afraid to push the limits. Whether it’s having custom mirrors designed to reflect stonewall fireplaces, hanging a variety of old-fashioned hand mirrors or using innovative tile-bordered mirrors that add a colorful splash to homes, adding your personal sense of style transforms a house into your home.