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Adding the final touch: Antique Mirror Glass

Your newly built house is almost finished as the furniture you ordered online has just arrived. You begin to un-wrap the boxes and assemble the glass table and wipe down your new black leather dining room chairs. You place that sparkling glass bowl on your blue marble bench and put your freshly cut flowers in your Royal Dolton vase that your mother sent over as a house warming gift. You stand back and admire your handy work. Your house is everything you dreamed of and your new husband is going to be pleased with your efforts when he returns from work that evening. But you realise that something is missing. The wall in the hallway looks bare and inviting. The Feng shui is not adequate enough for your liking.

So how do you fill such a space without spending too much money, but at the same time, having something unique and especially designed to your tastes and style? You decide to have a look on the internet. Google Images is a Godsend when it comes to finding ideas.

After spending hours looking at paintings, photographs and mirrors, you stumble across a quirky little website advertising Antique Mirror Glass (www.saligodesign.com). There are four different types of glass available including vintage, marbled, speckled and mottled that can be either safety backed or toughened in a variety of colours which can be fitted directly to the wall with screws or adhesive.

Orders usually take between 2-6 weeks and prices start from £336, with the option of receiving samples before making the final decision. This works well for those of us who need to see the glass in our living area and to decide whether it matches the rest of the décor we already have within our home.  This way we know what colour and style of mirror best fits.

So once your decision is made and the mirror finally arrives at your home, you can sit back in your new home and admire the final touch, the Pièce de résistance, your own little slice of heaven.