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If they were my mirrors I would paint them but only if you know what you're doing. I'm a painter and like many others paint my frames to complement a painting, there is nothing sacred about a brown frame.
Soft metallic is what I'd do for one, German silver, a warm silver tone.
I also like copper if it's not too red or too dark. Anyone in your family with red hair? That color, muted.
I wouldn't care if the mirrors matched the room, I like a mix of colors.
For a less expensive mirror makeover there is a spray paint, Krylon I think, called Looking Glass, looks like aged mercury glass.
I agree those size mirrors are too big for that room.
If they were my mirrors I would paint them but only if you know what you're doing. I'm a painter and like many others paint my frames to complement a painting, there is nothing sacred about a brown frame.
Soft metallic is what I'd do for one, German silver, a warm silver tone.
I also like copper if it's not too red or too dark. Anyone in your family with red hair? That color, muted.
I wouldn't care if the mirrors matched the room, I like a mix of colors.
For a less expensive mirror makeover there is a spray paint, Krylon I think, called Looking Glass, looks like aged mercury glass.
I agree those size mirrors are too big for that room.
The sacred thing about those brown frames, especially the big mirror frame is that it seems like an elaborate carving in natural wood, not just a brown frame. Painting elaborately-carved wood can be tricky. Covering it in paint would most likely damage the value and visual effect.
A fine detailed handcarved wood frame is a rarity and very expensive, never outside a museum or castle in the sizes shown here. Most that look carved are made of gesso from an original mold on a wood support, lower quality versions are made of resin mixed with wood particles and some are just urethane foam.
Carved looking frames of gesso are generally high quality and have been made this way for hundreds of years.
I would not paint a true wood hand-carved frame but I'd never have that opportunity.
I have about 40 years experience with framing and love looking at them.
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Hey I'm still here. I've just been busy. So far I took the big mirror down from the fireplace and put up a painting. I also removed the bird aviary. Also move the chairs close to the coffee table. I will take a photo later in the day
Hey I'm still here. I've just been busy. So far I took the big mirror down from the fireplace and put up a painting. I also removed the bird aviary. Also move the chairs close to the coffee table. I will take a photo later in the day
No! I love the mirrors! The whitewash fireplace turned out so amazing. I think you should whitewash the mirrors and the aviary, too.
Then, just add a nice carpet with maybe some bright blue in it and also some of the yellow color of the couch, and then add a couple matching blue accent pillows or a throw. Or, it looks like you might already have some red in the room, you could go with a carpet that has some red, maybe a muted red with a little yellow and maybe a little blue, too.
I think if you whitewashed the huge mirrors and the aviary, too, they would blend in and be soft like your fireplace is now, but still give really interesting architectural interest, and the window coverings would be perfect. Then, the rug would pop a little color with just a couple accents that also pop the same color, maybe a throw and it would be soooo pretty and so visually interesting.
I'm not one to leave something in it's original wooden form, for the sake of history. If it's not working for me, I do what I want with it.
This isn't a perfect example, but pretty close, of what I'm envisioning, where the carpet becomes a focal point in a mostly white/neutral room, but picture your soft yellow couch and a little of that yellow in the carpet, too:
Much better! For walkway flow reasons, however, I would move the chair on the right side of the coffee table to the bottom of the coffee table instead. But it looks nice!
For the walkway - I think there is enough space behind the chair.
The entrance to the room on the right is fully visible and not obstructed by the aviary. Great job!
Okay, I'd put the new artwork into a bigger frame and whitewash it. And, I'd get a new carpet. And, I'd whitewash the floor mirror.
I still miss the old big mirror :-)
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