Mirror Usage: One is Enough

A space that uses mirrors sparingly. There is only one mirror—a full-height smoked mirror affixed to a side wall in the dining room or a section of the entryway, with an area of about three square meters; its purpose is to double the depth of the space and reflect light into it, not for decoration. The mirror is smoked gray, and the reflected image is darker and softer, not clearly replicating everything like a clear mirror. A corner of the image shows a comparison with an overused version: mirrors are affixed to the TV wall, ceiling, cabinet doors, and dining room side wall, reflecting each other to create countless multiple images, making the space dizzying and cheap. Both versions have the same square footage and layout. Avoid: making the two versions similar, increasing the number of mirrors in the correct version, using clear mirrors, or adding diamond cuts and beveled edges as decoration on the mirror.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個節制使用鏡面的空間。鏡子只有一面——通高的煙燻鏡貼在餐廳側牆或玄關的一段,面積約三平方公尺;它的作用是把空間的深度加倍並把光反射進來,不是裝飾。鏡面是煙燻灰的,反射的影像偏暗、偏柔,不會像明鏡那樣清楚地複製一切。畫面一角以濫用的版本作對照:電視牆、天花、櫃門、餐廳側牆都貼了鏡,反射彼此形成無數重影,空間變得暈眩而廉價。兩者的坪數與配置相同。避免:讓兩者相似、在正確版本增加鏡面的數量、使用清透的明鏡、在鏡面上做菱形切割與斜邊裝飾。