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Too overwhelming for a small room. Using mirrors might be a good idea for more light and to make a room seem bigger, but just one large mirror will do the opposite - it will be out of place and make the room seem too small.
Consider 2 or 3 smaller, strategically placed mirrors.
Ironically, the living room is actually pretty small! It is an open floor plan. My delimma is that there is not enough sunlight that radiates through the living room because of all of the trees. By placing this mirror by the wall, I'm hoping for the sunlight to bounce off the mirror to create more light. And since the room is quite small, the mirror will give the illusion that that the living room is bigger. I will try to provide a photo of living room shortly.
No tv in the living room. There is a tv in nearly every other room, so decided to do without one in the living room. As for the mirror, It's far too heavy to mount on to the wall.
HA! you're right, I do like oversized decor!
Hard to tell without a diagram, but if the sunlight isn't getting into the room to start with, the mirror won't create more light. A proper strategically placed and angled mirror might reflect more light into a dark corner so as mentioned by kab0906 several smaller strategically placed mirrors might do the trick.
I get a strong Fab Fifties vibe from the mirror. It would be wonderful atop one of those big, horizontal Roman Brick fireplace structures from that era. And it would be great resting on a long-&-low built-in credenza. On the floor, it would make sense, beneath a bank of high windows, or beneath a flight of skeletal stairs.
My only reservations, would have to do with logistics (getting it into your home), and liability (if it fell on somebody...).
And I can see it, still on the floor, with a row of four or five bright abstract expressionist paintings hanging above it - those, hung angling-out, with their tops farthest from the wall.
Ironically, the living room is actually pretty small! It is an open floor plan. My delimma is that there is not enough sunlight that radiates through the living room because of all of the trees. By placing this mirror by the wall, I'm hoping for the sunlight to bounce off the mirror to create more light. And since the room is quite small, the mirror will give the illusion that that the living room is bigger. I will try to provide a photo of living room shortly.
No tv in the living room. There is a tv in nearly every other room, so decided to do without one in the living room. As for the mirror, It's far too heavy to mount on to the wall.
HA! you're right, I do like oversized decor!
Well, it just might work for what you have in mind!
However, I would be concerned for the weight - it is HUGE, and the frame is IRON. I have a few large-ish mirrors that are nowhere near that size; framed in wood, and even those are INCREDIBLY heavy! Are you sure you want to deal with something like that? You could always do mirror panels on one wall to open up the room and reflect light.
Well the plan is to build a short and long table specifically designed to put the mirror on top of so it will be taller.
That sounds even more hideous that just hanging the mirror by itself. The table would have to be even larger than the mirror and built with very thick materials to be strong enough and proportionate.
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you're right, I do like oversized decor!
