Mirror use for good Feng shui: Antique Mirror Glass

Mirrors have been a source of fascination for a long time. Many movies, books, television shows and magazines have been about mirrors. We all the story of Snow White and the wicked witch’s use of the magic mirror to tell her ‘Who is the fairest of them all?’, Lewis Carrol’s Through the Looking Glass, the second story of Alice in Wonderland and the movie adaptations such as Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland (2009). All of these works have used mirrors as their main theme.

In the homes of everyday people, mirrors are also used to dimension in a house or to balance out the Feng shui. For centuries, Asian civilisations have used Feng shui to encourage positive energies and thus maintain a happy life. Mirrors attract the Feng shui element of water due to the process of their creation to bring peace and refreshment into a home. There are also positions that a mirror can be placed in a home to focus on health and family (south), wealth and abundance (south-east) and career and path in life (north) http://fengshui.about.com/od/fengshuicures/qt/mirror.htm.

Feng shui is therefore important in your home but where do we find a mirror that doesn’t look the same as every other mirror that every other person has in their home? Websites such as www.saligodesign.com sell mirrors that are made from antique mirror glass in four different styles and a range of colours.

Many companies hand craft each mirror to the individual’s needs and they also provide their customers with samples if they feel the need to view the mirror against their existing décor to determine how it will fit into their home.

The glass can be safety-backed or toughened. Toughened glass provides more protection against breakages which is beneficial especially if you have a young family that loves to run up and down the house all day. There are also different shapes of mirrors for you to choose from including oval, round or square known as your typical mirror, convex and concave mirrors each with their own meanings in Feng shui.