Creative work: mirrors in the interior


For several centuries, not a single residential building has been equipped without mirrors. They look, they decorate the dwelling, they are loved and feared. Discarding superstitions and mysticism and armed with common sense and scientific facts, we decided to learn about the latest trends in mirror design. After all, to equip the interior is quite creative work - mirrors in the interior also carry a semantic load.

UNDERWATER ROCKS

In fact, the fashion for a large number of mirrors designed to expand the space, is coming to naught. Decorators, designers and, most importantly, psychologists in full trumpet that everything is good in moderation. So, the Dutch scientists conducted an experiment to study the effect of mirrors on the success of women training in the gym, and found that after classes they were feeling worse and in a mood.

WHERE CAN YOU DO WITHOUT MIRROR?

Children's

It is believed that a child of up to a year (or even up to three years) should not look at all in the mirror (it will stop growing, start stuttering, teeth will not grow, etc.). Of course, these are extremes, but there is a rational grain here. In any case, it is not necessary to hang a mirror in a children's room, even with a young princess.

It would seem that this is obvious, but some extreme "designers" are trying to expand a small space with mirrors. Of course, this design is on the brink of a foul, even when you use a mirror tile.

WHERE DO NOT YOU NEED TO EARN?

Living room

Forget about the ceremonial halls of Russian estates, because their owners had many other rooms, and they used the halls only for balls. Do not try to use the abundance of mirrors to change your living room into a branch of the royal palace. Equally weary for you will be fashionable now design solutions like the desire to "move the wall" (a mirror to the wall) or "storyboards" (square mirrors in a line along the entire wall).

Bedroom

In the bedroom with mirrors you need to be especially careful. Firstly, they are advised to keep away from the sleeper (so that negative emotions that are released in a dream are not returned). Secondly, you should know that psychologists have long rejected the "toy" called the mirror ceiling above the bed of love.

WHERE CAN YOU NOT LIMIT YOURSELF?

Entrance hall

This place is in a house where we do not stay long. Here, creative work on the placement of mirrors can unfold in full. Here you can at least make all the walls mirror. But you can expand the room without any extreme: for example, an oval, elongated mirror in the vertical direction will visually increase the height of the ceilings, and a mirror located horizontally will expand the wall on which it hangs.

Bathroom

Here the mirror has only one strictly defined place - above the sink. The rest of the mirrors can be anywhere and anything. The only reasonable limitation is the mirror (or mirror tile) in the shower zone.

DESIGN WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK

Mirror light

If your apartment is too dark, you can use mirrors as "traps" for light. Remember the appropriate section of physics and try to calculate where they should hang so that the light is multiplied. Like for any other "game" with mirrors, the rules remain the same: they reflect only the light from the window or from the lamp. In extreme cases, you can afford a mirror inset on the ceiling to "double" the chandelier and increase the ceiling.

It is quite possible to use mirrors and mirror parts in furniture of small sizes (shelves, racks, countertops, chests of drawers, bar counters) - this will only emphasize its lightness and transparency. Some low (or high) located furniture objects can be completely mirrored - due to this, it is possible to free the interior from them. However, with "reflective" objects, it is also better not to overdo it. The main friend of the "mirror" design is common sense. Mirrors should be as long as necessary.

MIRROR FEN-SHUY.

The Chinese attach special importance to the location of mirrors in the room, attributing to them a huge power over our positive energy ("qi"). For them, the construction of such a design is not just creative work - the mirror in the interior plays the role of a "guardian" of energy, emotions and thoughts. The teaching of feng shui strongly recommends:

Do not place a mirror in front of the entrance door (otherwise the positive energy will come out of the house, and the reflection will scare the incoming one);

choose "universal" mirrors, suitable for growth to all family members (to avoid "headless" reflections or other parts of the body);

Do not use in the design of "splinters of mirrors", as well as mirror tiles and even trellis;

Do not hang mirrors against each other (so that the energy of "chi" does not stagnate and does not walk just like that).

WHAT'S IN THE FASHION.

Mirrors with sandblasted frosted coating (patterns, fragments, etc.).

Colored (and rainbow) mirrors and their compositions (stained glass, mosaics).

Mirrors of unusual shapes (heart, wave, animal figure, etc.).

Mirrors without frame.

Mirrors-heaters.

ADVICE TO THE BUYER:

buying a mirror, check it "for curvature": take a long smooth object and "paint it" on different parts of the mirror;

make sure that there are no scratches and air bubbles on the mirror;

inspect the glass from the rear: the painting should be smooth;

if the mirror in the frame, be sure to investigate if it does not stagger.