Arched Full Length Mirror 180 x 105cm

On a 105cm frame the full arch is a half circle of 52.5cm radius, so the curve begins 52.5cm below the top edge. Hung with the bottom edge 20cm off the floor the top of the glass is at 200cm and the curve starts at 147.5cm, which sounds low until you do the geometry. Your head reflects at a point on the glass about 5cm below the top of your head, so a 185cm person is looking at the glass 180cm up, and at that height the arch is still 82cm wide. The two corners you lose are above and beside anyone's head; what you keep is a 105cm wide mirror that shows two people side by side and one person with the room around them.

That is the case for the full arch at this size over the shallow curve of the Gentle Arch 180 x 105cm at the same £309.95: on a plain wall the semicircle supplies all the shape the wall was missing, and an arch mirror 180 x 105cm wide is a big enough curve to read from across a living room. Under a picture rail, coving or a sloping ceiling, the gentle curve tucks in where this one would fight the line above it.

A couple who dress at the same time; a living room with a clear wall opposite the window; a dressing room where the mirror is the only decoration; a bedroom over 3.5m long with a wall of its own. A 180 x 105 mirror hung at a 20cm bottom edge is a 180cm mirror topping out at 200cm; it shows anyone to about 205cm head to toe and two people square to the glass; leant at seven degrees it shows anyone from a pace back. It is not for a hallway, which rarely has a metre of clear wall and never wants a 26.5kg leaner; the Arched 160 x 60cm is the semicircle for a hall or a bedroom gap, and the 200 x 120cm is the one for a room that wants a whole wall reflected.

The two hanging points are fitted and sit well below the top of the curve, so measure from the hardware to the floor and never from the top of the arch when you mark the wall. On a frame this wide the points sit far apart, which is good for stability and usually means they straddle two timber studs on a plasterboard wall; where they do not, fix a batten across two studs and hang from the batten. Brick or block takes two nylon plugs and screws rated above 26.5kg into the brick. Dot-and-dab wants long frame fixings through to the masonry. Above 20kg our rule for plasterboard is timber or masonry, never cavity anchors. Two people lift from the frame sides, hook both points on, step back, level, then tighten. The hanging guide covers each wall type.

Leaning in a dressing room or living room is how most people will use a mirror this wide, and it looks right leant: felt pads under the base, about 20cm out for five to eight degrees, and an anti-tip strap or a screw eye and cable at the top on the day it arrives. Not in the carton, not rated to carry the weight, and not optional with 26.5kg of glass resting on friction. The securing guide covers the strap and the cable.

A semicircle this wide in a dark or warm line is a shape you look at, so the finish matters more here than on the gentle curve. A black Arched mirror turns a living-room wall into a window: crisp on white, pale grey and sage, hides fingerprints, vanishes on navy. A gold Arched mirror in satin champagne-brass is a feature at this size whatever is reflected in it: it glows on sage, navy and cream, lifts a mid grey, and drifts to warm silver on pure white. Both are powder coat on the same steel at the same £309.95. The black arch mirror and gold arch mirror pages show the eight arches in each finish, and the arch mirror page has every arch together.

The Gentle Arch 180 x 105cm is the same size and price with a shallow curve and 28kg; buy it under a rail or in a busy room, buy this on a plain wall. The Arched 160 x 60cm is the semicircle at bedroom size, 14.7kg and £199.95, one person and an outfit. The Arched 200 x 120cm at 33.2kg and £399.95 is a 60cm-radius semicircle that reflects a wall and wants 2.2m of clear height. The champagne 180 x 90cm is the same design 15cm narrower in a paler finish at 20.8kg and £239.95.

Dispatched within one working day from UK stock and delivered in two to seven working days on a two-person service, to your door and into a ground-floor room where the route allows; free to mainland UK, offshore postcodes quoted by email. The carton travels on its long edge and is a little over 105cm wide, so measure the half landing and the headroom over the stairs for an upstairs room; the guide to moving a large mirror covers the carry. One carton: the mirror with its hanging hardware fitted and the safety backing behind the glass, no plugs, screws or strap. Open it the day it arrives with the carton upright and someone steadying it, check the glass edge to edge and the curve of the frame for chips, and photograph anything cracked, chipped or marked with the carton and the label within 24 hours; a replacement is dispatched free and the damaged one stays with you. Change of mind is 14 days, unused and in its packaging, at your carriage cost. The delivery and returns pages have the detail, and every mirror we sell is on the full length mirrors page.