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How to Decorate With Mirrors

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One of the easiest ways to fill a room with light and make sure a space is larger with mirrors. Reflective surfaces will help bounce light around a room, so they’re great for making spaces seem brighter and more full of light. Because they reflect light and color, mirrors are also a great way to make smaller rooms seem larger. So make your home brilliant and bright by adding some reflective surfaces.

You can think of mirrors as art. Try to hang them like you would paintings. For large walls, hang several matching mirrors side by side. Or opt for several different sizes and shapes-a collection of different vintage mirrors hung from ribbons can look quite nifty clustered together on a wall.

If you can’t find mirrors in the shape or size that you want, you can also make your own by framing pieces of mirrored glass. Most framing stores can make these for you quite easily.

Don’t forget that mirrors aren’t just for walls; mirrored furniture can be very chic, and very practical, because it works with so many different decorating styles. Try a mirrored bedside table, chest of drawers or coffee table. You can also apply a mirror to the top of a coffee table using mirrored tiles.

To pick up on the reflective look of your mirrored furniture , add shine with other reflective accessories, like mirrored trays and candlestick holders. If you do use tiled mirrors make sure that they are glued securely to the surface, especially in humid rooms like steamy bathrooms.

Remember, mirrors double the effect of whatever they are opposite-hang them opposite a window to double the view and the light in the room. If you have a colorful accent wall, you can hang a mirror on the opposite wall and the accent will be complimentary and reflect the color combination in a decorative way again.

Remember too that mirrors come in different tints and colors. Rows of pink mirrors give a rich yet girly look to a room. Rows of green mirrors have a post-modern or forties retro feel to them. Rows of gold tinted mirrors make you look wealthy. Perhaps the most flattering color of mirror is pink as it makes the skin look younger! Photography experts say reflected light from a pink mirror can help you look rosy and erase wrinkles. Perhaps that is why pink mirrors are perfect for the bedroom.

How to Decorate A Master Bathroom

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If you have a master bedroom attached to a master bathroom you are probably looking for decorating ideas that can help coordinate both rooms.

The easiest way to do this is to match the colors of the linens. For instance if your bed sheets are blue and your walls are brown then you might also want to have blue and brown towels, soap dishes and other accents in your bathroom.

Different patterns can also play a part on the overall look of your decorating scheme. For instance, if your bedroom has wallpaper that has stripes then you may want to continue this motif onwards on all of the walls of the master bedroom.

You could also be more subtle and simply also have a striped curtains picking up the motif of the bedroom.
Another way to deal with a pattern is to have stripes or polka dots or whatever pattern suits you and have them be one color in the bathroom and another in the bedroom.

For instance you could have pink polka dots on the coverlet and curtains in the bedroom but the towels, bath mat and shower curtain in the bathroom could have blue polka dots. Items also do not have to be all of the same color in order for you to be able to “riff” on a decorating theme.

These rooms can also be coordinated in terms of what materials you use to build or decorate them with. For instance if your bedroom consists of heavy wooden mission fixture then a wooden countertop and wooden toilet seat might look good in your bathroom. Instead of tiles, stones or pebbled tiles also might look better in the bathroom. The great thing about wooden furniture is that it suits just about every type of flooring and wall covering including plush carpets, tiles, stone, hardwood floors, brick and plaster.

Another way to decorate is by era or style. For instance, a retro seventies style bedroom could contain a round bed and also boast a red and orange color scheme. The bathroom could also have a red and orange color scheme as well as modular shaped bathroom accessories to suggest the seventies. Clear plastic accessories such lamps, garbage pails and soap dishes could help unify the look of both rooms so that they appear authentic.

Also remember that both rooms do not have to absolutely match to signify a totally coordinated effort. It only takes a few similar design accents to give both rooms a pleasant unity.