Arched Full Length Mirror 180 x 90cm

Champagne is the pale, cool cousin of gold. Where our satin gold frames are a champagne-brass that reads as gold against a coloured wall, this finish is paler and cooler still: the maker calls it a soft champagne ivory with subtle warm gold undertones and a smooth, low-sheen surface. On a white or off-white wall it reads as a warm white line rather than a metal; on grey it is a whisper of warmth; on sage, navy or a dusky pink it is the gentlest version of a gold frame you can buy. It is the finish for a room that already has mixed metals, for a bedroom in warm whites and linens, and for anyone who wanted gold and found it too loud against their walls.

It is also the only mirror here in this finish, so if the room wants the champagne Arched mirror, this is the size and the shape it comes in: a full semicircle at 180 x 90cm. The same outline in matt black or satin gold is the Arched 180 x 105cm, 15cm wider; the gentle curve at this exact size in black or gold is the Gentle Arch 180 x 90cm. The gold full length mirror page explains the gold family it sits at the pale end of.

On a 90cm frame the full arch is a half circle of 45cm radius, so the curve begins 45cm below the top edge and the whole top of the mirror is one continuous bend. Hung with the bottom edge 20cm off the floor, that puts the start of the curve at 155cm, still above the eye line of anyone who stands in front of it, so you lose the two top corners and nothing of yourself. A 180 x 90 mirror hung this way shows anyone to about 205cm head to toe, which is every adult you will meet, and the 90cm width frames a person with an outfit held up, or two people side-on. An arch mirror 180 x 90cm with a semicircle this wide is a piece for a plain wall: a hallway facing the door, a dressing room, a living-room end wall, a bedroom over 3m long where it sits beside the wardrobe rather than facing the bed.

The Gentle Arch at the same size is 29.8kg; the window mirrors at this size are 27.3 to 27.9kg. This one is 20.8kg, nine kilos lighter than its nearest relation, because the 15mm frame is as slim as the maker makes and the construction behind the glass is lighter. Our specification sheet lists the glass at 5mm, which a 1.62 square metre sheet would make 20.3kg on its own; the maker's own listing does not state a thickness, so we show the figure as listed and are checking it, and either way the glass is safety-backed float in a welded frame. Treat the 20.8kg as the number that matters: it is still above the 20kg line where our fixing rule for plasterboard becomes timber or masonry rather than cavity anchors, and it still comes on a two-person delivery because it is 180cm tall, but it is a mirror two people carry up a staircase without comment, and that is not true of the 30kg ones.

Hang it from the two points already fitted to the back, into brick or block with two plugs and screws rated above 20.8kg, or into timber studs, or from a batten across two studs where the stud spacing does not suit; dot-and-dab wants long frame fixings through to the masonry. Measure from the hardware, which sits well below the top of the curve, set the top of the glass level with or above the tallest user's head, and offer it up with two people. The hanging guide covers each wall.

Leaning is where a pale frame earns its keep, because the tilt catches the low sheen and the champagne reads warmer than it does flat on a wall. Felt pads under the base, 20cm or so out for five to eight degrees, and an anti-tip strap or a screw eye and cable at the top fitted on the day it arrives; neither is in the box and neither carries the weight. A dressing room or a bedroom is the place to lean it. In a hall, hang it. The securing guide has the strap and the cable, and the leaner mirror page the angle and the carpet.

Anyone who wants the frame to read as gold. Champagne is a warm white at a distance on a white wall, and if the room has brass handles or a brass pendant it will look like a near miss beside them; the satin gold Gentle Arch 180 x 90cm at the same size and price is the match for brass. Anyone who wants a black mirror, obviously, which at this size is the same Gentle Arch in matt black, or the black arch mirror page for all eight black arches. And anyone who wants the semicircle in gold or black at a comparable size, which is the Arched 180 x 105cm at 26.5kg and £309.95. The champagne is the right buy when the room is in warm whites, linens and mixed metals and you want the arch to be the quietest thing on the wall. The arch mirror page has every arch together.

Dispatched within one working day from UK stock and delivered in two to seven working days on a two-person service, free to mainland UK, offshore postcodes quoted by email. 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, check the glass edge to edge and the frame corners, and look at the reflection of a door frame from one side to confirm the line stays straight. Anything cracked, chipped or marked gets photographed with the carton and the label and emailed within 24 hours for a free replacement; 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; the whole range is on the full length mirrors page.