Oh, those magic mirrors!!!
The designers knowingly consider a mirror as the most interesting element of house decor. A skillfully picked up mirror can refresh even the most boring interior, giving to it a special unique style. It can be an imperceptible detail, and can set the fashion to all interior. The mirror is able to generate various spatial and light illusions, to hide lacks of the lay-out and to do many other things ???????
One, two, three! Be ready - the magic is starting!
In olden times the mirror was considered as the occult subject full of secrets and riddles and the set of superstitions has been connected with it. Today a mirror is not only a high-grade detail of the furniture of, but it is also the original design tool by means of which it is possible to correct some architectural, building lacks. For example, mirrors often use for creation of illusory light and spatial effects. So, if you hang up a mirror opposite the window, the room will get an additional illumination that is rather important for small dark premises.
The illusion of the expanded space is created by large mirrors - when the reflection of various subjects is visible from different points of a room. The mirror can double the width or length of the room (especially, in sitting rooms and bedrooms), but thus it is better to separate the borders of the reality and the “world behind the looking-glass”. For this purpose you should put any small furniture attribute or design near to such wall it can be a small sofa, an armchair, a padded stool, a coffee table, a beautiful floor vase, a floor lamp, the floor fixture in the Japanese style from a fabric, or a rice paper, a statue from the ethnic shop, etc.
Mirror fashion
The designers say that the frame is the most important part in a mirror which allows it to be a stylish ornament of the house! Today’s fashionable tendencies are the following: mirrors with frameworks from natural breeds of trees (a beech, a bleached oak, a nut), painted in various colors or covered by a usual transparent varnish, from copper and a brass, made in the style of an olden time are welcomed. The most important is that the mirror frame should follow the style of your house: somewhere it may be evident, allocating a mirror; somewhere it should be hardly noticeable and ascetic.