Mirrors add glamor and opulence to any area, reflecting light and, most importantly, reflecting your tastes, your style and your face! Standing mirrors come in all shapes and sizes — large standing mirrors can be effectively employed on the floor while smaller standing mirrors can be placed to fabulous effect on shelves, dressing tables and chests. Beautiful frames, that you may even choose to make yourself, all add to the look. Be imaginative; old doors can frame mirrors to quirky effect and standing mirrors can even be propped up as sparkling backsplashes behind sinks and kitchen surfaces. Instantly, your room is lighter, bigger and brighter. Results!
This simple but imposing gold-framed standing mirror is employed to wonderful effect in a dark stairwell — the light bounces back from the small window onto the mirror and lights up the stairs and corridor. Standing mirrors can be placed wherever your living area feels too dark, angled to introduce maximum light.
This bedroom has floor-to-ceiling fitted wardrobes, and one of the central doors has been replaced to incorporate a standing mirror. The room instantly becomes bigger, and the mirror introduces light into the room — it’s also pretty useful for checking out your look!
A string of pink flowers light up this elegant Edwardian standing mirror. The mirror reflects the pretty, flattering light, which then glows into the room. The look is warm, inviting and fabulous.
The gold-framed standing mirror used on the stairs also looks lovely in a smaller space — this time propped up in the wall recess of a child’s room. Reflecting the pretty, colored “tree” lamp, it creates the perfect ambient glow of a reassuring nightlight.
By standing a full-width mirror behind the kitchen sink and surfaces, a small kitchen becomes twice the size — and looks pretty cool too, bouncing back the light and making all the surfaces sparkle.
This old wardrobe door is a gorgeous relic of the “belle epoch” at the turn of the 20th century. It has a beautiful “art nouveau” decorative lock and handle — who could bear to throw it away? In a perfect act of recycling, it is placed against a wall to instill instant rustic chic into any room.
This combination of a floor-standing mirror framed with white metal scrollwork, together with a smaller mirror with gold scrollwork, produces a striking look. Both mirrors lighten, brighten and enlarge the room and are classic statements of vintage “shabby” chic.