Let's get this settled: Post I

One of the mini-projects I decided to embark was to find a way to bring more light into my room.

The way my apartment is set up there are only windows at the front and the back, this due to the fact it is attached to the buildings on either side of it.

There are two bedrooms in the middle of the house, mine and one of my roommates (and the third is at the back and has a window).

Mine and the other middle bedroom don't have windows, but we do have large holes/gaps in the top part of one wall that lets in a little bit of light from the two front rooms that do have windows.

When my first roommate moved in last week her mom was nice enough to bring us to Ikea and a few other places not easily accessible without a car.

One of the things I bought was a cheap full-length mirror, from Ikea*, with the plan to hang it on my wall opposite the large hole, to help bounce light into my room.

My landlord, though, has a rule that if we want anything hung on the wall (that is significantly large like that) he has to do it. I can understand the reasoning, this means if anything gets damaged, or if he doesn't find the studs and the thing falls off the wall then it is his fault and not the tenants. It's only a pain because then I have to wait until he is around to hang things, and also either have him come in when I am not home (not something I'm entirely cool with) or be there and wait around while he takes forever (also not something I enjoy, but whatcha gonna do?).

Anyway, he hung up the mirror. Yay. It probably could be a bit higher, but I was here and he hung it where I told him to, so I can't really complain (and don't really feel like asking him to rehang it...took...forever.

Here are the results:

Before & After

It does bring a little more light into the room, but probably not as much if I had had him put the mirror higher...ah well.

I suppose my back up plan will be to wait until I know he is not home (which is never...) and rehang it myself, since now I know where the studs are!

*I had never been to Ikea, this was a novel experience for me...and yes we do have them in the states, just not where I grew up. They have a cafeteria!