Wardrobe with a mirror: practical beauty (29 photos)
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One of the most popular pieces of furniture for decades was a cabinet with a mirror on the facade. It is almost always in small-sized apartments, as it saves space. How to place it correctly, what to take into account, we will consider further.
General Features
The mirror in the interior of any living room performs three functions: visually increases the space, creates additional lighting, allows owners to evaluate their appearance.
Where to put the closet?
The most popular option is a built-in wardrobe with a mirror. If it is mounted opposite the window, for example, in the bedroom, the room receives more light, and several mirrored doors multiply the effect.
Opposite each other, mirrored wardrobes create an illusion of infinity, repeatedly amplified by directional lighting.
However, keep in mind that the gloss of a mirror reflects everything. If there are a lot of things in the room, then it will at least double their number. It is desirable that the mirror does not reflect the door, ideally - only an empty space or a light source.
Technology
Cabinets with mirrored doors are similar in design to conventional ones. For large models, reinforced fittings are used, since the sash with a large mirror mounted on it is impressive in weight.
Mirror gloss is beneficial as a design object: it looks equally good on color film, sandblasted decor, painting, photo printing, bronze matting and many other ways.
Experiences about the fact that having a mirror cabinet is dangerous, because it can break from an accidental blow, are unfounded. The surface is equipped with a special film that can hold all particles. So even if the mirror is cracked, the fragments will not fly around the room.
Size matters
The number of mirrored door sections in the cabinet begins with one. This is either a pencil-case for a bathroom or a corridor, or one of the sections in a product with two or three leaves.
The mirror on the cabinet door with a large number of wings is set taking into account the style and size of the product. The two-winged almost always has both mirrored doors. A cabinet with 3 doors or a four-door mirror, combining with other materials, in accordance with the style of the room.
For classics, they use a cabinet combined with a mirror and wooden surfaces, hi-tech requires the presence of bright plastic, in modernity it can be glass coated with a pattern, colored or sandblasted.
The three-door version provides for combinations: a mirror center plus 2 side with photo printing or frosted doors, side mirrored plus a picture in the center.
Install the mirrored wardrobe on a completely flat, non-sloping floor surface, otherwise the reflection will be distorted.
Each room has its own shine
Living room
The main room of an apartment or house requires chic decoration. Here, just in place are four-door models with mirrors. Mirror with facet will give special solemnity and brightness, creating shine and overflow of rays refracted along the edge. However, if the size of the room is not very large, it will be decorated with a three-winged wardrobe, glazed over the entire facade. The wenge coupe is real chic.Dark colors, shades of black coffee and a mirror together create a unique effect.
Hallway
In most apartments this is a small elongated space. Therefore, the corner cabinet in the hallway should be shallow and with narrow wings. Such a model as an oar cabinet with a mirror is rarely placed in this room, an accordion cabinet with a mirror is more often used: this mechanism does not need a lot of space for opening.
The mirror in the hallway should not be tinted, covered with a pattern or applied with another decor. Most of the light is created by pure gloss.
The simplest cabinet with a mirror in the hallway is compact with a long, but not full-length mirror. A more modern two-door wardrobe with a mirror on one or both wings. Its place is determined by the configuration of the hallway:
- long or narrow - a cabinet built along a short wall; can even be opposite the front door;
- square - along the wall: completely or to the door to the room;
- with several entrance doors - a mirror cabinet in the hallway of this type is placed closer to the entrance.
It is always advisable to purchase at least a small closet in the hallway: a "control look" is necessary before going out.
Bedroom
A woman cannot do without a good large mirror in the bedroom. But it is not always worth spending money on its purchase separately. It is better to immediately buy a mirrored cabinet with backlight. At least two-leaved or three-leaved, and if space permits, then more. This will solve several problems at once: placing a lot of things, finding them without difficulty, freeing up space.
The three-door wardrobe in the bedroom is decorated with a mirror in different ways: as a whole, only in the central part or only on the sides. The rest are decorated with a pattern, sandblasted or colored, matted (bronze looks very noble). The main thing is that the gloss does not get out of the general style of the interior.
It is undesirable to put a wardrobe with a mirror in the bedroom, even a small double leaf, opposite the bed.
Teenager room
In adolescence, increased attention is paid to appearance, so a personal mirror cabinet will not hurt. Its size, style and number of sections are determined by the tastes of the owner. As a rule, young men have one thing (hi-tech or techno), and the girls want at least a double-wing cabinet. If the area allows, you can do more. In a very small room, the output will be a corner wardrobe with a mirror. Decor is chosen light, bright, romantic or all the leaves are left clean.
Bathroom
Mirror - a must-have attribute on the bathroom. Chrome, gloss, gloss are welcome here. The most popular option is a compact wall cabinet with mirrored doors. It is indispensable during hygiene procedures, therefore it is mounted directly above the sink.
In more spacious rooms, a narrow pencil case with a mirrored facade is used. The mirror in it does not occupy the entire surface, but only the upper part: half or a little more for safety reasons.
Configuration
Modern sliding models of cabinets with a mirror facade are offered in a straight, angular or smoothly curved design.
Straight
The most common universal option, providing unlimited possibilities for installation or decoration.
An interesting solution is the use of a mirrored built-in closet as part of the interior partition. The coupe is finished with a mirror, mounted on all sides: on the rear wall, sashes, sidewall. But in the bedroom with this option it is better not to experiment - such a cabinet, even a double-wing, creates too much shine.
Angular
Corner cabinet with a mirror is suitable for different rooms. He is especially fond of the owners of small apartments, which take into account every centimeter of space.
A corner wardrobe with a mirror will fit even in a narrow small bedroom or hallway. For example, a popular double-wing accordion cabinet with a mirror that visually expands the space, adding light and volume.
Radius
The youngest option, the brainchild of modern technology. Curved guides, smoothly curved sashes look nontrivial. Radius cabinet is of several types:
- in the form of a circle - the most economical option;
- concave - a beautiful modification of the corner, the same L-shaped design, but with a smooth silhouette and the usual arrangement of the wings, the most rational version of this segment, because the shape is in the greatest harmony with the content or dimensions;
- concave-convex is an abstract artist’s dream, a mirror can be installed on one or all of the leaves, but the role is purely decorative - the reflection is obtained as in a laughing room, so its glossy surface is intensely decorated: sandblasted, frosted, painted.
A radius cupboard is the privilege of large apartments or houses. A cabinet with a mirror, in addition to the main function of storing things, is involved in the transformation of the interior. Choosing and installing it, you need to be aware of and take into account this property of a glossy surface.
