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Creating Light and Energy with Mirrors

By: Sarah Clark

Any time you purposefully decorate a room, you arrange it to keep the eye moving at a pleasing pace throughout the area. To attract the eye, you can use color, decor or light. When you decorate with mirrors, you essentially are manipulating the light in your room, and light can work magic. You can use mirrors to amplify the size of a space, or you may choose to reflect a favorite architectural element in your room.

If you are lucky enough to have a wonderful view from your home, you can use a mirror to repeat that view many times over. By placing a mirror opposite of your window, you not only draw in the natural light from the window, but you also bring the magnificent view into the room and make it part of your decor.

Mirrors open up a space that may otherwise feel claustrophobic. By adding mirrors to a room, you help the light move around the room, and by the same token, the light bouncing around the room pulls your attention around a room as well. The ancient Chinese Art of Feng Shui is very attuned to the movement of energy around you. Its directive it to attract positive energy to you, and it does this with the placement of your decor. Mirrors are important in keeping energy flowing around a room in that light is really a visible form of energy. Creating a peaceful and light place in your room helps to make it positive place to be.

To create a room that is full of light, you can use mirrors to help balance the brightness of the room. If you have a single window in the room, a mirror on the opposite wall can help to pull the light over to it as well. So as you are placing a mirror in your space, it can bring your room to life.

If you have any feature inside or outside of your room that you enjoy like a beautiful view or an elaborate chandelier, you can use a mirror to reflect the image of this feature. As you reflect the image, you are repeating it throughout your room without using up any actual space.

If you have a short hallway that you want to appear longer, you can place a mirror at each end, and as it reflects back into itself it will magically grow longer. You can make a space feel wider using the same technique.

If you place a mirror over a fireplace you can actually use it to reflect soft light back into the room. Simply add a candle grouping on your mantelpiece, and you will reflect the warm glow of candlelight back into your room.

If you have a room that is feeling a little dark or closed in, you can hang a large mirror a little higher than normal on the wall to give the illusion of an open window, and this will make the space feel more open.

You can use a grouping of smaller, framed mirrors to create a cohesive display on a long wall. By hanging them at regular intervals, they can help to create symmetry in the space or tie two spaces together.

You can always use a single, large, ornately framed mirror to create a focal wall in any room. Or you can group many smaller mirrors together into a large grouping for the same, stunning effect.

Adding mirrored, wall, candle sconces to your dining room is a great way to add ambient light to the room while dining.

You can use a mirror to brighten up any dark corner in your home. You can place a mirror along the back wall of a shelf to reflect light and any shelf display.

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