Fashion Police: The Orange Wall Needs a Mirror. Which Shall It Be?

[purejuice]

Comments

[pomo_drunkard]

You need a dirtier apartment. You're making the rest of us look bad.

I like the simplicity of the first one, the beveled edge mirror, personally.

[purejuice]

oh honey, you have no idea. the vortex of mayhem is swirling just outside the shot.

[gwenzilla]

the gold sunburst, i think that'd look fabulous on the orange

[the_macnab]

Yeah, but with the green in the hallway? An offset becomes a transitional color, and I think that that would distract both from the contrast of the rooms and from the mirror itself. (Though I certainly hope that purejuice has considered that this mirror will be reflecting whatever's at the end of this hall and planned accordingly.)

[oneroom]

It's hard to tell from the photo I think. I'm torn between the mosaic and the gold sunburst, depending on how they look In Real Life.

[the_macnab]

Do they look equally good in the room into which they'd go? I think that from an angle like this the round, beveled mirror's simple design clashes with the sunburst mirror--it makes me feel like you stopped planning when you got to the end of the hallway. For that reason, I favor the mosaic. But depending on what that room feels like, the beveled may be better, and you may care less about this establishing shot in daily use.

On the other hand, what are their relative sizes? I would go for the biggest feasible mirror in that space that, when you're standing as far down the hallway as possible while facing it, does not get cropped by the doorway.

[niyabinghi]

The first one.

Do you really want to have to dust all those sunbursts?

[aliceinfinland]

If you put a starburst mirror on an orange wall, you are Thom Filicia.

Whom I love and want to decorate my apartment, but in a less ironic way. For yours, I would not put two shiny round wall objects in the same view. I would make the distant one square or oblong, and possibly wooden framed or Art Deco.