The benefits of adding reflective mirrors to a room are numerous: the room suddenly appears more spacious, you can see yourself from different angles, and the room brightens up because of the bouncing light; but what if you took those mirrors down off the wall and started to build furniture out of them? Would mirrored furniture have the same qualities and give you the same benefits? For centuries, home decorators have found that the answer is a resounding: Yes.
Mirrored accent furniture can breathe life into a room through the reflective power of glass. Most furniture pieces will close in a room and make everyone feel a little bit more claustrophobic but mirrored furniture manages to achieve the opposite effect and ostensibly blow a room wide open. By cleverly placing mirrored end tables, armoires, desks, and chests of drawers, you can get all of the benefits of hanging a large mirror on the wall without actually doing so.
Not all mirrored furniture is made alike. You can’t just slap some mirrors onto the sides of a piece of furniture and make it look sophisticated and refined. There are many styles of mirrored furniture that have developed over the years so that you can find just the right kind of piece to fit in with your room’s décor. But that doesn’t mean you have to buy only pricey high end pieces. There are some really nice cheap mirrored furniture pieces available if you look around.
Here are three of the most popular styles of mirrored furniture:
Art Deco Mirrored Furniture:
The art deco movement that began in the early 1960’s really fostered a sort of rebirth for mirrored furniture. The silver, black, and metallic art deco color schemes matched perfectly with the glossy reflecting surfaces of mirrored furniture pieces. If you are looking for that classic old Hollywood feel or just want to complete your art deco room you can count on art deco mirrored furniture.
Contemporary Mirrored Furniture:
Modern or contemporary furniture tends to play around with interesting shapes and curves. It is not uncommon for contemporary mirrored furniture to have design elements of octagons, cylinders, and triangles. Sleek and sexy is really the name of the game for contemporary furniture design. The idea is to create a look that takes a minimalist approach to design yet throws in many smooth curves and soft angles.
Borghese Mirrored Furniture:
On the other hand you’ve got Borghese mirrored furniture, which is a little bit of an older Italian style. Borghese pieces often use glass cut at sharp angles and lots of cross hatching work to create a certain complexity. Borghese antiqued mirror furniture harkens back to the golden age of Venetian mirrored furniture and really focuses on tables and bureaus.
