How to Avoid Breaking Your Mirrored Furniture
The common old wife’s tale goes: if you break a mirror you will have 7 years bad luck. Superstitious people live their lives around sayings like that and will avoid breaking mirrors at all cost. If you are one of those people you probably don’t own many pieces of mirrored furniture but if you do, you want to try your best not to break it in anyway.
When we say “break” we don’t mean scratch, crack, or chip. If your dainty antique mirrored furniture is suffering from any of those ailments all you need to do is patch it up like you would the windshield of your car. You can purchase glass sealant and a treatment chemical at any home supplies store or hardware store. If the crack is so severe that a little bit of touchup won’t do you might need to have the silver redone. You can take it to a glasscutter for that or you can just have the mirror replaced.
Replacing a broken mirror can be an expensive venture. The bigger your mirror is the more money you are going to have to shell out to get it replaced. It is a much better idea to avoid shattering your mirrored furniture in the first place.
Here are three simple rules you can follow to avoid harming your mirrors:
Pay Extra for Shipping and Handling:
You can buy tons of great mirrored bedroom furniture online these days but when you do so you run the risk of the mirrors breaking during transit. To avoid having an inexperienced bumbling trucker damage your brand new piece of mirrored furniture you can opt to purchase insurance on the piece or pay a little bit extra for shipping and handling.
Keep Away from Children:
Small children love to horse play and whenever they do they somehow manage to break something. If you want to keep your mirrored furniture out of harms way you should put it in a room that isn’t often trafficked by small children. By keeping children away from the mirrors you will keep them safe from injury and the mirrors safe from harm.
Avoid Moving It Around:
Moving your furniture to a new location is the number one way to break it. Once you set the furniture down you should keep it where it is. If you have to move it make sure to cover it with soft and heavy fabrics so that if you bump it you won’t break it.
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