Tests have demonstrated that home owners who keep mirrors around the house are likely to do better in life and exhibit more confidence. In addition to helping increase your self confidence, mirrors help you with interior decorating issues, particularly if you do not have a lot of space.

Interior decorating specialsts will recommend you to use a large wall mirror if you want to produce the effect of additional room. If it is a case of a room that’s not as large as you might like it to be and you are not thrilled at the idea of taking down partitions or altering the entire furniture with something that should make the area seem wider, a few well-placed whole wall mirrors might very well have the desired effect. By reflecting the whole room, mirrors can give the impression that there’s twice as much space.

But bear in mind, you can not just go hanging mirrors anywhere you want to. Mirrors will not do any good if large items of furniture are blocking them, for example. Choose a wall that will give people fewer opportunities to see their reflections because this can lessen the illusion of space you are trying to produce - across from some fine oak bookcases could be an excellent location.

Of course, mirrors come built in to certain items of household furniture in certain rooms - vanity sinks, for instance, will have a mirror which will increase the sense of space.

To create the most spacious effect, study the layout of the room and find those parts of it that are not the opposite of where people sit. Remember that the mirrors don’t have to cover the entire wall surface, just the entire height. If you get it right, your floor to ceiling mirrors will give the illusion that there are passages into other rooms, generating the effect of extra space.