Mirror or picture above the mantlepiece??

[Yorkiegirl]

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Mirror. Hands down.

mirror again, we have huge mirrors over the fireplace in living room and bedrooms. I love having lots of mirrors!

Mirror.

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What colour are the light fittings, door handles etc?

we have picture above, and mnirorr opposite. cos miror is bigger and looked odd over mantlepiece.

know it's different but we made the right choice for our house.

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I'd go for a gold/gilt frame - too much dark wood otherwise.

Pictures can look nice and probably a bit safer for the littlies (especially when they're big enough to be drawn to the mirror iykwim)

mirror. feng sui-wise, it's the stuff.

MT - it's over the mantlepiece like ours are!

I know - but its not particularly safe is it? unless you have fireguard

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Just beware

We have a high mantle and put a mirror above it - and it is so high up that you can't see anything in it! So a picture would have been a far better solution!

mirror .. looks lovely with flowers in front of it

We have picture above mantlepiece as have mirror in the hallway

I'd go for a gold frame too.

And I can't quite imagine how a littlie would be able to reach a mirror fixed to the wall above a mantlepiece... also, I don't htink that it'll make a lot of difference whether it's a picture that falls on their head of a mirror - both are heavy and have glass. Unless it's an oil painting...

Mirror. Particularly good if the mantle is on a chimney breast too as the use of the mirror recedes the sticky-outness.

Actually, I have a lovely picture and like it there! (The Conversation, by Mark Spain- we bought a picture each 2 years ago, dh has 'Carnival' by Joy Kirton-Smith)

Mirrors mean I must look at me - not a positive

Mirror definitely. We have alovely pewter coloured one that matches our fireplace. Apparently, in Victorian times, it was not the done thing to hang your mirror in landscape. Anything but portrait direction was indicative of the householder having no class/taste!

Call me common....

Moggers - you're common.

My dh won't let me have a mirror over the mantelpiece because he says it's not safe to stand in front of a fire preening yourself. So we have an enormous picture instead.

we have a large mixed media (printing ink, wax crayon and watercolour) house portrait of our last house with images of three children, ds wearing face paint the girls in a sort of dreamworld haze, also features a ladder, the town hall clock from a little welsh township and a pig the overall effect a little reminiscent of Chagall

done by me
dp likes it although it is the house i had with exh