Make It Nice: Mirror Mirror On The Wall

Welcome back to Make It Nice, Defector's best interior design advice column. Today, we have a mirror dilemma, a kid- and guest-friendly bathroom, and dinner plates that feel more dignified. Margot asks: > My partner and I fell in love with Rejuvenation's Bentwood Rounded Rectangle Mirror (walnut edges, 32" x 48") but— between the price and the required shipping fee—are skittish about paying almost $1k for a mirror. We are just leaving the Ikea era of our 20s and trying to make our spaces feel a little more solid, so we have to ask... is this just what a nice, large mirror costs? We do have a big, non-framed, landlord-grade mirror hanging in our bathroom; do people ever get their own mirrors framed locally? Just spitballing here, since I was really excited about adding a mirror to our big blank wall and am trying to figure out what our options are. > > [The mirror] is going onto a large white wall in our living room. We’d plan to eventually put a credenza underneath once we have the budget for one. (The solution of using the bathroom mirror might create more problems than it solves, as we’d then have to find a mirror for the bathroom…)