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Scientific studies have proven that home owners who keep mirrors around their house tend to be more confident and get on better in life. helping build your self-confidence, mirrors help you with interior decorating issues, particularly if you don’t have much space.

Interior decorating experts may recommend you to use a free standing mirror if you want to give the illusion of having more room or space. If it’s a case of a space that is not as spacious as you might like it to be and you’re not enamoured at the prospect of taking down partitions or replacing all the furnishings with something that might make the area appear broader, some well positioned floor-to-ceiling mirrors could very well give the desired impression. By reflecting the whole room, mirrors give the impression that there is twice as much space.

But bear in mind, you can not just go hanging mirrors anywhere you feel like it. Mirrors will not do any good if large items of furniture are blocking them, for example. Choose a wall that will give people fewer chances to see the reflections because this will lessen the effect of space that you are trying to produce – opposite some fine oak bookcases might be an ideal spot.

Of course, mirrors are integral with some items of household furniture in some rooms – vanity sinks, for example, will come with a mirror to add to the sense of space.

To create the most spacious effect, study how the room is arranged and find those parts of it that are not likely to be opposite where people will sit. Don’t forget – the mirrors need not cover the entire wall surface, just the entire height. If you do it right, your floor-to-ceiling mirrors can create the illusion that there are entrances into other rooms, creating the effect of extra space.

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