Did you know there’s a very simple trick you can pull to make a small room seem a lot larger? Would you make you even more interested to know that you only need one to two items to pull off these feat of magic?
The answer can be found in the humble mirror. The way most designers use mirrors is to bring light into a room as well as hang a mirror or even a pair of mirrors on the wall that is as far away from the entrance doorway as possible, yet is facing that doorway. The way this illusion works is very simple and just plays on a trick of the brain. When you enter a room and your eyes see that there are mirrors on the far end of the wall, the brain will actually interpret this as a feeling of more space.
It doesn’t matter if you use mirrors with intricate frames or simple polished wood frames, either way it’s the size of the mirror on the wall that matters the most. Use large sized mirrors or the impact of this trick will be lost. It doesn’t work to use a small mirror. You want your mirror to be a minimum of 30 inches tall and a 15-inches wide – and remember bigger is better when you’re pulling design tricks!
