Garden Mirrors Design Ideas

When considering art for your outdoor wall spaces, garden wall mirrors have lots to offer. Firstly, it is important to purchase an outdoor garden mirror as simply putting the old mirror from the back of the garage onto your garden wall will almost certainly be only be a temporary solution, particularly if the mirror has the old type of silvering on the back. Older mirrors were very expensive, certainly not designed to be weather-resistant and cannot even cope in the wet and steamy conditions a modern bathroom presents. Modern outdoor mirrors are designed to withstand all the inclement weather the seasons bring and should give you many years of satisfaction.

Illusion mirrors really can look amazing and really add exciting elements to your wall repertoire. Consider whether your garden wall could cope with the optical illusion of an open door, suggesting that if you walk through, you will be in another world. Simply by the suggestion of altered horizons, your perception of the proportions available will be confused and your boundaries visually extended.

Why Use Mirrors In The Garden?

1. Frame a pretty view or plant

2. Create the illusion of a larger, brighter space

3. Borrow the light, especially useful in a basement area

4. Conceal and reveal, depending where you place your garden mirror

5. Match the mood, with coloured frames or styles

Garden mirrors can frame a view or create the illusion of a way into another garden.

They give the impression of a larger space and reflect more light into your garden.

You can easily disguise an ugly wall or transform an unsightly fence by reflecting your beautiful garden.

Using garden mirrors you can quickly add a touch of fun or even fantasy.

Choose a style to suit your garden or paint or stain to harmonise.

Even the smallest space can be enhanced with a garden mirror.Outdoor mirrors for gardens, either free standing or attached to a wall will reflect the light. A carefully placed mirror could double the interest of a small space.

Creating the illusion

It's important to keep the element of surprise. So when you are positioning your garden mirror make sure your own reflection isn't staring back at you. We recommend angling the mirror down and to one side. That way you can see garden, grass, greenery, path etc and not your own feet until you are right up to the mirror (the taller the viewer the longer the illusion).

Mirrors enhance even a plain brick wall.

Choose the view you want to reflect. Try composing a collection of interesting objects to reflect. Avoid a position for you mirror which reflects a plain or messy area.

Use window frame style garden mirrors to add some style to the side of your shed. A gothic window style could add some faded grandeur surrounded by ivy- who would guess it was just the side of a shed? You could add a window box to the bottom and some seasonal planting and you are well on the way to creating the illusion of a stylish summer house instead of a utilitarian box. Paint the mirror to match the existing window frames to suggest that they really are part of an extension to the house.

Create a pathway right up to the base of the larger mirrors to reinforce the illusion of a way through. You could add pots of topiary either side of the mirrors to frame the "view" and add the feeling that the Wrought iron style glass mirror gates really links to another part of your garden. Use plants around the edge of the garden mirror to add to the effect and disguise the edges.