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Usually when you have a fireplace mantel, one of the things that people use to decorate
these mantels are mirrors. I love a mirror. What person doesn't love a mirror, especially
girls? So mirrors over a mantel, you can do that a couple of different ways. You can have
one big mirror and call it a day. I mean that's classic and everybody loves it.
Or you can have a little bit more fun with it. You could have multiple mirrors, and so
it's almost like different windows into the soul right above the mantel. Make it a little
bit more interesting. What I personally love to do is I love to hang a mirror, a very large
mirror over the mantel, and instead of keeping it boring and classic, go a little bit extra
and start layering your mirrors.
So you have a very large mirror over the mantel, it's hung on the wall. Then you have a medium
mirror of a totally different look. Maybe it's gilded. Maybe it's painted, and you have
that off to the side a little bit, and then maybe you have another smaller mirror. Again,
three's are really important, because it gives you that context. It gives you that layering.
It makes it feel like you didn't try too hard but you tried just enough.
They can be different. They can be totally different in color. They can be totally different
in the way that the frame looks. But I think it's a really interesting way to dress up
the mantel, and at the end of the day, it's the layering in the room that makes the most
and the biggest impression. So starting with your mantel as a focal point is really the
first start to any room.