Luxury & High End Floor Mirrors

The Only 5 Reasons to Consider Buying a Floor Mirror

Floor mirrors are a unique decorative accent that designers use with purpose to achieve greater effect in adding light, depth, and size to a living space. While most mirrors lend some effect at making a room feel bigger, leaning floor mirrors add a different kind of dimension that cannot be achieved by traditional wall mirrors. From a decor standpoint, floor mirrors often straddle the line between casual or carefree, and formal or expertly styled. There are so many types of floor mirrors. The sturdy wood constructed frame, the mirror frame, decorative mirror frames, framed mirrors, antique silver leaf frame, gold frame just to name a few options. Here are five points to think about when styling a room and considering floor mirrors as part of the design.

1. They Brighten a Living Space by Adding More Light

When floor mirrors are positioned either perpendicular to or directly across from a window, it reflects sunlight, making your entire room brighter. Floor mirrors present an opportunity to add even more natural light to rooms that have plenty of it already, as well as brightening darker rooms that need as much natural light as they can get. The larger the decorative mirror, the more potential there is to provide more light. What designer would pass up the opportunity to add more natural light to any space?

2. They Make Rooms Appear Larger

Large mirrors of full length, add depth to a space. The optical illusion of depth that floor mirrors bring, is what makes a space appear larger than it really is. Placed in the right spot for instance in a dining room, floor mirrors can mimic windows or entryways, reflecting an opposing wall, and in doing so, creating a much greater illusion of room size and open space. In addition to this, taller mirrors draw our eyes upward, which can give the optical illusion effect of making ceilings appear higher than they really are.

3. They Bring Dimension to Plain Walls

Leaning floor mirrors that rests against a wall on a slight angle does take up a little more floor space. However, it creates much greater effect and visual interest than wall mounted mirrors. If you are open to experimentation, leaning floor mirrors present countless opportunities to add dimension and depth to any room in your home. It also frees you up to experiment and explore with abandon, because it doesn't require the time and trouble to affix it to a wall, nor have to make repairs to hanging wall space where it didn't quite fit or lacked the effect you wanted to achieve.

4. They Provide a Point of Interest for Minimalists and a Point of Calm for Maximalists

It’s easy to see why minimalists tend to love floor mirrors: They transform otherwise blank walls without adding anything that could be perceived as visual clutter, like a gallery wall or any number of wall decorations. But for maximalists, too, they’re a great accent that can increase the visual depth of a color and patterns, making the space feel even more enveloping and visually interesting.

5. They Can Serve as a Canvas for Art and Decoration or Furniture as a Personal Valet Stand

Virtually any space can benefit from the addition of a mirror, but floor mirrors offer a special kind of personalization. Whether you opt for a wall-leaning mirror instead of a vanity mirror or one with a base, you can accent it by draping it with lights and other decorations or hanging a small collection of bags or scarves over one of its upper corners. You can also choose to let it speak for itself against a plain white wall or you can surround it with works of art. Floor mirrors can make your living space more casual, comfortable, and carefree. This ultimately, makes your living space feel more casual, comfortable, and carefree!

Basic Types of Floor Mirrors

Floor mirrors can be categorized into a few basic types or styles. It is often easier to decide what you do not like, than it is to decide on what you do like. Before browsing through virtually limitless pages of floor mirrors online, let's look at the basic types you might consider or rule out. This will make your browsing experience far more enjoyable and a lot less time-consuming using filters, to filter out those items you already know, you don't like or want.

Traditional Floor Mirror

Traditional floor mirrors and a beveled mirror have one purpose alone; reflection. Originally created for dressing rooms, bedrooms and the like, it was designed to give people a full-length view of themselves for the purpose of dressing in a time when aristocrats and even their valets and attaches were expected to dress their part and not miss any details of their uniform. Traditional floor mirrors can be free-standing or mounted on the wall. These are usually placed vertically but can also be hung horizontally giving any narrow entryway the optical illusion of twice its width and a much larger entry than it really is.

Leaning Floor Mirror

This is the most common type of floor mirror. Typically, its shape is rectangular, but there are many variations such as those with curved corners and arched or crowned tops. Leaning floor mirror are used by interior decorators to give unique dimension and visual interest to a space. They lend a casual, relaxed ambiance to any room and based on their size, they can also add a significant effect in giving the illusion of much wider and open space..

Cheval Mirror

A cheval mirror stands upright. The word “Cheval” is French for “horse,” and it is named for its likeness to the vertical bar and four feet that resemble those of a horse in the early 18th C. when it was invented. It became a very popular mirror in its early days of invention due to its practicality and design. What separates the cheval mirror from all others, is that the mirror and stand are two separate pieces that are joined together in a way that allows the mirror to swivel. It can be moved in any direction for whatever vantage point you need. Cheval Mirrors are a favorite among artisans and furniture makers because of their size, design, elegance, and charm.

Easel Mirror

The easel mirror is named for its rear adjustable easel that gives it support, hence the name. It is a modern update to the leaning floor mirror. It can be adjusted for whatever angle one prefers within its tilt range. From a design perspective, easel mirrors usually have clean and simple lines. For purposes of practicality, they are typically designed to be lightweight for portability and ease of use.

Ladder Mirror

> The ladder mirror is very similar to an easel mirror. The only exception is that its back support was designed to have rungs that one can use to drape articles of clothing such as scarves and other apparel. For those of us who tend to drape and leave their clothing out and about the bedroom, the ladder rungs allow for clothing articles to be draped and hidden behind the mirror to keep the room looking neat and tidy. Better yet, the ladder mirror is ideal for setting out one's clothes for the next day.