Adding Light With a Mirror Gallery

Urban Acreage
by Urban Acreage
The natural lighting in our house is not so great. The main reason is because we have two giant maple trees, one in the backyard and one in the front. I'm not complaining, they are beautiful old trees that keep the house shaded during the summer, and I'm sure a bunch of happy squirrel and bird families live in them, but they also make the house a bit dark.
So, last summer, I started looking into ways to add more light and it turns out one trick is to add mirrors. Lots of mirrors. Mirrors everywhere! I started by gathering some thrift store mirrors and laying them out on the floor to play with the configuration. Juno tried her best to help, as usual!
Then I taped and sprayed the mirrors with white semi-gloss paint and primer. Once the paint was dried, we centered and hung them on the wall.
The white frames and mirrors reflect light from the picture window, so I'm pretty happy with it. I'm wondering, do you have lots of windows? Or a dark house? Do you know any tricks for faking more sunshine?
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  • Nancy Clancy Nancy Clancy on Mar 07, 2015
    I wish I could ask the person exactly how he did it but he is now an EX relative, but in his basement he measured and framed the small windows so that the framing was a couple of feet lower than the actual window bottom. He filled in the empty area of the framed wall with mirror tiles, covered the window with venetian blinds (horizontal) and if they were set right you would swear there was a full size window. Hope this makes sense :)
  • Angela Lowe Angela Lowe on Mar 08, 2015
    I added mirrors along with white empty white frames that I placed all around the room to bounce light.
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