If you like to have your home decorated with style and personality, you need to learn how to use mirrors well as part of your decor.
Rooms like the living room, which is the “calling card” of your home, needs to have an elegant appearancebut at the same time, cozy.
This is exactly the effect of the mirror in the living room — in addition to, of course, enhancing the environment and making it visually more pleasant and spacious.
Despite all these advantages, you need to know how to use the mirror in the living room, in addition to choosing it appropriately, depending on the characteristics of the room in question.
With this in mind, the Fashion Bubbles team developed this complete article, with everything you need to know about using mirrors in living room decoration. To check out all the tips, just keep reading. Follow along!
Why use a mirror in your living room decor?
Mirrors have been present in the daily lives of humans since ancient times, around 3000 BC, with the Egyptian civilization and have been improved over the centuries, until being capable of forming clear images, completely faithful to reality, as we have today.
You can see that being attracted to mirrors and their reflections is part of human history, right? But if not to analyze your own image, Why include these pieces in the living room decor? The truth is that there are good reasons to do so! Check out the main ones below!
Expand the space
The first reason is the feeling of spaciousness in the space in which the mirror is located. Especially when positioned in front of a “clean” wall, that is, without many objects or decorations, the feeling of spatial expansion is even greater.
A optical illusion caused by the mirror makes us imagine the environment with more depth and, consequently, space.
Thus, naturally narrow environments with little spatial dimension, such as bathrooms, halls and corridors, can easily be transformed into completely new places, with new visible proportions.
Highlights the environment
In addition to expanding the environment, the mirror is also able to highlight it. In this aspect, everything depends on your intentionality and strategy.
After all, you can choose to direct the attention of everyone who comes into your room, for example, to that fancy vase that you paid for dearly — or even use this tactic to divert their eyes from spots that you don’t like so much.
Promotes elegance
Well-positioned mirrors, with frames and finishes that are harmonious with the rest of the decor, can give the “missing touch” to the environment, making it elegant and interesting.
Who has never been to a friend or acquaintance’s house and not been “drooling” over that beautiful mirror on the sideboard in the living room? Or even, in that game of geometrically cut mirrors, on the sofa?
This feeling of admiration and enchantment is very common when faced with a strategically installed mirror, in order to make the environment even more sophisticated!
Brings enlightenment
Finally, depending on the angle chosen and the style of mirror reflection, it is entirely possible to bring more lighting to the room — either by reflect artificial light from a chandelier or lamp in the room, or natural light that shines through the windows.
Light reflection can be very useful in frequently used environments, such as offices, rooms with study desks or even living rooms, which are the central theme of this article.
This light gain also represents an energy gain (literally!) and, consequently, a financial gain. After all, the fewer lamps and artificial light points needed in an environment, the more economical it becomes.
How to choose a mirror to use in the living room?
With all these advantages in mind, it is clear that using a mirror in the living room can be the best choice to enhance the environment, making it more pleasant, spacious and, when possible, economical.
Despite all these positive points, it is also necessary to highlight the negative points of mirrors, which can make them your enemies, rather than your friends.
If chosen and installed incorrectly, mirrors can reflect unwanted parts of the house, such as messy tables and shelves, windows with intense lighting, visual glare and other unplanned areas.
Therefore, you need to be very careful when choosing your mirror, as it will multiply all objects in your reflection point, whether they are visibly pleasant or not.
So, understand that there are several types of mirrors, with different curvatures, heights, lengths, cuts and frames, which can confuse you when purchasing a living room mirror.
Each mirror has a specific function, whether it is lengthening a room vertically or horizontally, or presenting a new focal point for visitors, as a strategy to direct their attention to the location you want in the room.
With this in mind, the first step before deciding which mirror will be in the room is to define the size of the room — in technical terms, the ceiling height of the room.
Small room
For small rooms, the ideal is to use mirrors to enlarge the room and make it visually more spacious.
Therefore, prefer large mirrors, wide horizontally, if you want simulate a larger room horizontally, or long vertically, to give the impression of a larger and taller space.
After defining your intentions and choosing the ideal mirror model, install it on the wall of the sofa or sideboard, for example.
Avoid positioning the mirror in the room on the wall opposite the window, to avoid extreme and uncomfortable light reflections.
If your room, even though it is small, has a plain wall, without decorations, you can choose to position the mirror there, if this does not mean any harm to the room.
Big room
In large rooms, on the other hand, the objective is completely different: highlight specific points and bring elegance to the place.
Therefore, opting for smaller mirrors, or even a collection of them, could be the secret to a modern but elegant room, as is the case in the photo below:
There is still the possibility of highlighting a specific point in your environment, as in the photo below the staircase is highlighted as the focal point of the reflection:
How to use a mirror in the living room?
Simply put, using a mirror in the living room is an extremely useful, versatile and strategic strategy, and largely depends on the “aesthetic” or style of your home and living room as a whole.
There is no point, for example, in a minimalist environment, with a more neutral color palette and more modest decorative objects, adding a mirror with an elaborate frame, Louis XV style (full of “frufrus” and reminiscent of nobility).
At the same time, it is not interesting to save on the aesthetics of the mirror if your home is already full of different details, with the vintage style, for example.
Each piece must be chosen to be in perfect harmony with the rest of the house and its rooms, in addition to the decorative objects such as armchairs and rugs already present in the room, so that it is pleasing to the eye.
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Conclusion
Did you notice how the mirror in the living room can change the entire atmosphere of the room? Therefore, you need to be conscious when choosing and take into account all the points covered in this article.
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