Once it was looking good again, came the time to find a room for it, which was not that easy! Although we have high ceilings on the ground floor, the wood panelling is, in most rooms, too high to allow room for the mirror above it. After considering saving it for an upstairs room, we ended up finding the perfect home for it, giving us a good excuse for rearranging the winter garden. After securing a safe way to hang all 70 kilos of the mirror (let’s not forget we have a very curious toddler in the house), it finally went up on the wall!
As usual when we install a new antique piece in the château, and even more so when it is something grand like this mirror, I can’t help but wonder where it came from, what it has seen before, and what memories it carries with it. I like to think that we are giving it a new purpose, within the continuity of its original intent.