My husband’s preference would be to live in a house without mirrors. He hates them, always has, despite his natural good looks. In fact, if I looked like my husband (okay, that would be weird, but let’s just say, hypothetically), I’d be one of those guys who can’t pass a storefront without looking at my reflection in the glass. My husband has such a virulent distaste for mirrors, we once passed up an amazing deal on a great TIC in NYC in the late nineties ($82,000 for a 1-bedroom on the Upper West Side!) because he couldn’t get past the mirrored paneling on the living room wall. The paneling could have been removed, of course, but it left such a horrific impression on him that when he saw the apartment in his mind, all he could remember were the mirrors.

In our own house, needless to say, we never use the old decorators’ trick of strategically hung mirrors. If we did, however, I’d be tempted by this industrial mirror by Elijah Leed’s eco design house Spare Contemporary, on sale at Fab.com for $288.

About the mirror:

MacLeod mirror in faded red from Spare Contemporary. Designed by North Carolina metalworker Jackie MacLeod, the namesake mirror is actually a salvaged rim spacer from a retired 18-wheeler. Each of Spare’s pieces are ecologically conscious, featuring reclaimed materials and recycled metals.