The best bathroom mirror can add great style and elegance to any bathroom design. An essential bathroom fitting, bathroom mirrors work hard in this environment and ensure users can complete all their personal care tasks easily in this room. Yet, with a range of additional benefits and features in many designs now, bathroom mirrors offer so much more in their practicality. With such a vast choice of designs, styles, and shapes available to choose from, there’s a mirror to suit every bathroom.
The Bathroom Showroom offers a helpful guide to help you select the best mirror for your customer's bathroom.
What Customers Need to Know Before Buying a Mirror
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Before buying a new bathroom mirror it’s a good idea to consider where it’s going to be placed. Typically most bathroom mirrors are placed at a convenient height and above the basin area for practicality. Yet, some people like to use mirrors as decorative pieces and add a few around the bathroom to encourage light to bounce off them.
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How many people will be using the mirror? For those busy traffic bathrooms with several members using them regularly, it may be a good idea to consider more than one mirror. Likewise, if the main use for the bathroom mirror is for beauty purposes and shaving, then an LED bathroom mirror may be a good option.
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Is the mirror suitable for the bathroom environment? Bathroom mirrors need to be bathroom-friendly choices due to the unforgiving nature of this room. Regular mirrors with wooden frames designed for the home won't fare well. So, mirrors designed for the bathroom will offer tempered glass and properties such as anti-mist and anti-fog.
What Are the Types of Bathroom Mirrors?
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Classic Mirrors
Classic bathroom mirrors are those which are hung portrait or landscape. These suit every style of bathroom and can be found in various shapes, sizes, and colours.
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Cabinet Mirrors
Cabinet bathroom mirrors offer both mirror and inside storage space to help keep bathroom essentials safe and out of sight. These are available in both single and double-door choices.
What Bathroom Mirrors Are in Style Now?
The Bathroom Showroom offers a wide selection of bathroom mirrors, with a style to suit every bathroom design. The most popular choices of bathroom mirrors include:
Circular Mirrors
Adding soft curves and elegance to the bathroom space, circular mirrors are some of the most popular designs. Working well as a centrepiece and making a focal point or design statement if preferred, intricate designed circular bathroom mirrors are also becoming widely sought-after for their attention to detail.
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iflo Eclipse
With an infrared sensor control and demister twitch, this has backlit LED lighting and is colour temperature changing. With a slim profile to project a floating look, sizes available include 600m and 800mm.
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HiB Trim Round
Finished in brushed brass or matt black, this is a minimalist design mirror available in 600mm and 800mm.
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Hib Helix
Offering 3 x magnification, this provides a plain mirror on the reverse and an extension of 24.5cm.
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Hib Libra
With an LED edge design and an integrated switch, this provides 3 x magnification.
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HiB Solstice
With a decorative strap and wall fitting, this mirror offers a touch switch, heated pad, and colour temperature changing ambient. Available in 600mm and 800mm and in black and brushed brass.
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HiB Theme
With a touch switch, heated pad, and colour-changing temperature capabilities, this also boasts a backlit design. Available in 600mm, 800mm, and 1000mm diameters.
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HiB Bellus
Featuring colour-changing temperature LED illumination, this benefits from a touch-free operation and a heated pad. Available in 600mm and 800mm.
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HiB Solas
In a choice of polished chrome, matt black frame, or brushed brass with mirrored sides, this mirror has varied sizes available. It also features a heated pad, sensor switch, and colour temperature-changing LED illumination.
Rectangular Mirrors - Offering portrait or landscape choices
Rectangle bathroom mirrors are a huge hit with many homeowners looking for versatility in their designs. With the ability to be hung comfortably above the basin and varied sizes and styles available, rectangular mirrors offer increased features and look stunning in any bathroom design.
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iflo Vela
Features a bevelled edge mirror design feature and can be hung portrait or landscape.
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iflo Ciana
Features an infrared sensor control and demister switch as well as an integrated shaving socket.
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iflo Solas Pro
Available in two sizes, this has colour temperature changing LEDs, an integrated shaving socket, and an infrared sensor control and demister switch.
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HiB Trim Curve
With matt black and brushed brass finishes available, this is in several sizes and offers a minimalist design.
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HiB Ambience
With an LED edge design and colour temperature changes, this mirror has a vast selection of sizes available. It also boasts a touch switch and a heated pad.
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HiB Globe
As a stunning-looking bathroom mirror, this features a colour selection of cool-to-warm LED illumination, a heated pad, and an on/off sensor switch. There are several sizes available.
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HiB Vega
With several sizes available, this mirror offers a charging socket, heated pad, on/off touch switch, and colour temperature change.
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HiB Platform
With its precision LED, this beautiful mirror is in several sizes, has an illuminated glass shelf, and a heated pad, and benefits from an integrated wireless phone and toothbrush charger.
Mirrored Cabinets
Mirrored bathroom cabinets offer a bathroom mirror and a storage area combined, with a choice of doors. Installed by many over the basin area, mirrored cabinets are more sought after now thanks to their additional practical features, creating a multifunctional mirrored space.
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iflo Mirrored Cabinet
An adjustable and removable glass-shelved mirrored cabinet with an easy-to-clean interior. A stainless steel container is also included inside the door for additional storage. Available in single-door and double-door.
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iflo Anora
A double-sided illuminated LED door, features an integrated shaver socket and infrared sensor switch.
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iflo Atlas
A double-sided illuminated LED door with adjustable inner shelves and internal and external lighting. This also has an infrared sensor and an integrated demister pad as well as an integrated internal shaver socket.
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HiB Eris
A double-sided mirror with mirrored sides features adjustable glass shelves and a soft close door. Available in single-door, double-door, and triple-door.
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HiB Xenon
An LED edge design and colour-changing temperature mirror, this features a USB and 2-pin charging sockets, an on/off sensor switch, and an integrated charging socket. Available as a single, double, and triple door choice.
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HiB Vapor
Featuring a proximity sensor, a heated pad, a USB charging socket, and an integrated charging socket, this double-sided mirror door is available as a single or double-door option.
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HiB Verve
An illuminated storage option, this features a USB and 2-pin charging socket and an integrated wireless phone charger. This is available as a single and double-door choice.
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HiB Isoe
With precision door illumination, this has a heated pad, an on/off sensor switch, and an integrated toothbrush charger. Available as a single-door and double-door option.
If you're looking to shop mirrors for your customer, speak to us at the bathroom showroom. With over 280 showrooms and a renowned history of working with the trade, we're the experts in all things bathrooms.