Sitting on the couch in my new home, I notice a mirror my girlfriend put up not long after we moved in over our fireplace in our living room. It's about two feet in diameter, perfectly round in shape with a silver trim about three quarters of an inch thick. It's slightly off center from the middle of the mantle, and looking back and forth from the mirror to the red brick and gold accents of the fireplace, it clashes pretty hard. Like a 'we need to relocate this now' kind of hard.
In the mirror I see our light stained wooden railing (which is going in a few weeks) and the dividing wall in the loft at the top of the stairs. This house was built around having as much natural light as possible, and there's not a whole lot of lighting upstairs because of it. It almost looks like its a hole above the fireplace, or like I'm peering into someone else's house through a portal as I'm writing this at 11:30 at night.
The mirror has a subtle, almost eerie elegance to it, and if we do move it, I'm curious to see if it'll have the same effect somewhere else, or perhaps a stronger one.
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