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Pros & Cons of Mirrored Furniture

Mirrored Furniture can be an impressive enhancement to your home and can harmonize any kind of design your family already has. Complex statement furniture pieces can add a sophisticated and fashionable effect to your home. These may include a long sofa that has side tables, a classy crystal chandelier, and particularly a luxury mirrored piece. Whether you want to emphasize or incorporate a stylish look to a room, there are myriads of mirrored furniture pieces that you can choose from: Mirrored Cabinet, Mirrored Dressing Table, Mirrored Hallway Console, Mirrored TV Console and a lot more!

Are you looking for a way to update your home decor? 

Do you feel like your living space is looking a little bit too drab? 

It might be time to look into something a little bit different for your next big furniture makeover.

Let us break down the advantages and disadvantages for your consideration:

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PROS:

  • Mirrored Furniture Makes Your Space Looks Bigger

Just as with light, mirrored furniture sets can create the optical illusion of more space by correct placement. The reflective surfaces can easily open up a room when there are limited options for space. You can easily make a room seem twice its size thus allowing for more elbowroom.
A mirror is no longer just a slab of silvered glass; they are artistic engineered designs that can often replace our other mundane and expected ornamentation.
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Mirrors create the optical illusion of more space by correct placement. You can easily make a room seem twice its size thus allowing for more elbowroom.

  • Mirrors Brighten A Room

By definition, a mirror reflects light. Both sunlight and interior lighting will be reflected back toward the interior of the room instead of being absorbed by walls or wood. Mirrors automatically reflect natural and artificial light, and by catching the sunlight at its best you can amplify on the natural light. This will brighten the atmosphere up in your home notably aiding you by bouncing light in hidden haunted corners making them seem harmlessly large.

The result is a brighter, more cheerful room, day or night!

  • Mirrored Furniture Can Blend Into Existing Décor

Mirrored furniture blends in with any style of interiors. You do not need to look for any particular furniture style because a mirrored dresser, for example, can be easily fit into contemporary, country, traditional or classic design of the room. 

  • Easy to Clean

With most materials, you have to be very careful how you clean them, or if they will come completely clean. If you use the wrong solvent or rub too hard, you might damage your furniture.

With mirrored pieces, cleaning is uncomplicated. Spray glass cleaner and wipe with a soft cloth or microfiber cloth.

  • Timeless Design

Mirrored furniture is timeless.

You've probably heard that before, but what does it mean?

It means that your furniture will never go out of style. It doesn't matter if you buy mirrored glass things in 2011 or 2030 - it will still look good because the design and shape of the furniture aren't going to change.

Timelessness is essential because we all know that when you buy a new piece of furniture, you're committing yourself to it for a long time.

Because it's reflective, it doesn't age the way wood, and other materials do - it always looks like you just brought it home from the store. No matter how many times you change your mind about what kind of room you want to create, mirrored furniture will always look fantastic.

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CONS:​

  • There may be slight imperfections to mirrored products as these are all hand-finished products. Thus, mirrored furniture are definitely not for the perfectionist. â€‹

  • Prone to Damage / Scratch â€‹

Considering that the external surface areas of mirrored furniture can be relatively fragile, there is constantly the possibility of it getting damaged, specifically if it remains in a room with small children and / or pets running about. You will want to avoid putting mirrored furniture in busy rooms that already have a lot going on.

  • Requires Regular Maintenance

Mirrored furniture are more prone to stains and fingerprint traces, so constant maintenance are required to keep it shiny and lustrous at all times.

  • Heavy Weighted​

Mirrored furniture are mostly heavy, thus extra caution is required when moving them around to avoid breakage and scratches.

  • Costly Repairs 

If in any event a mirror part is broken by accident, the cost of repairs can be quite costly. Considering a piece of small mirror replacement can easily cost ranging $40 onwards, and that is not inclusive of labor cost. You will also need to source for the right mirror specialist which accepts customizing beveled glass mirror replacements locally.​

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Now that you know the advantages and disadvantages of having mirrored furniture, you can ideally choose if this kind of mirrored furniture is for you. We personally believe that the pros definitely outweighs the cons. As you can see, mirrored furniture is surprisingly versatile. When placed with care, these captivating pieces can make the whole room feel larger, bridge the gap between classical and modern, or add a glitzy shine!!!

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