Lattice Window Full Length Mirror 150 x 60cm

A lattice window mirror borrows the slim steel windows Crittall made for 1930s houses, with one difference: the bars are welded to the frame and laid over a single sheet of glass, so you are looking at one mirror with a grid on top rather than fifteen small ones. The reflection is whole and undistorted behind the bars. The lattice version doubles the bars of a plain pane grid, so the panes are smaller and the frame reads as a finer, busier pattern, closer to a leaded cottage window than a factory one; the plain-grid alternative at larger sizes is the Window Pane, and at 150 x 60cm this and the Arched Lattice Window are the two window mirrors we make.

What the grid does to the reflection is break it into panels. A passing coat does not become a wall of coat; a cluttered room becomes a set of small views. In a small room that can feel busy, which is why the 150 x 60cm is the lattice we would put in a hallway or beside a wardrobe rather than facing a bed, and why the plain Window Pane exists.

A 150 x 60 mirror hung with its bottom edge 20cm off the floor is a 150cm mirror with the top of its glass at 170cm, which by the half-height rule shows anyone up to about 175cm head to toe; the average British man is 175.0cm and the average woman 161.3cm. Leant at seven degrees it shows anyone, because a back-tilted mirror brings more of your head into view. Sixty centimetres frames one person. It is the window mirror for a hallway a metre wide, a landing, or the gap beside a bedroom wardrobe, and the one to choose when the 180 x 90cm Lattice Window at 27.9kg is more wall than you have.

The plain Gentle Arch 150 x 60cm is 15.3kg; this is 17.6kg. The extra 2.3kg is the lattice, steel bars welded across the frame, and it is the first thing to know before you choose a wall. The glass itself is the same 0.9 square metre sheet of 4mm float at about 9kg. At 17.6kg the mirror is still in the band where two metal cavity anchors, each rated above the full weight, are acceptable on a plasterboard wall with no stud in reach; it is the heaviest mirror on the site for which we would say that. Brick, block or studs are better, and the two hanging points already on the back take plugs and screws or wood screws to suit.

A window mirror forgives a lean less than a plain one, because every bar in the grid shows half a degree of tilt. Mark both fixing points with a level, hang it with two people, check the top bar before you tighten. Leaning it is fine in a bedroom or dressing room with felt pads under the base and an anti-tip strap or screw eye and cable at the top, fitted on day one; the frame is slim, so the base has little footprint and a knocked window mirror goes rather than wobbles. In a hallway, hang it. The hanging guide and the securing guide cover both.

A black lattice mirror is the one most people picture, because the frame reads as a window and windows are not usually gold; matt black on a white or pale wall is the classic contrast, it hides the fingerprints a hallway collects, and it is the version people search for by name. A gold lattice mirror in satin champagne-brass reads as a decorative object rather than a window, warms sage, navy and cream rooms, and turns to warm silver on pure white. Both are powder coat on the same welded steel at the same £229.95, so choose on the wall and on the room's other metals. The black-frame-gold-bars two-tone exists on the window designs at 180 x 105cm only. The black full length mirror and gold full length mirror pages make each case.

More bars means more edges, and a lattice has the most of any mirror here. A dry microfibre cloth lifts dust from the glass and the bars in a minute. For marks, dampen a cloth with glass cleaner, fold it over a finger and do each pane on its own; spraying the whole face pools liquid at the bar edges and leaves marks, and lets it run into the join where the backing lives. Nothing abrasive on the powder coat. A matt black touch-up pen hides a scratch through the coat from two paces. The cleaning guide has the streak-free method for the glass.

The hallway first. A window mirror 150 x 60cm hung flat facing the front door or on the long wall reads as a second window and throws the daylight from the door glass back down the hall, and black is the usual pick because it reads as architecture. Then the bedroom, beside the wardrobe side-on to the window, where the lattice earns its place if the walls are plain and loses it if they are patterned; two patterns fight. Then a home office or a landing, anywhere the mirror is seen all day rather than only when you dress, which is what the window style was designed for. Not a steamy bathroom and not a garden: the glass and backing are for dry rooms. The window mirror page covers the style across all 14 sizes and designs.

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, because the damage window is 24 hours: check every pane for a crack, run a hand along the bars for a loose joint, look at the corners of the frame for chips in the powder coat, and photograph anything wrong with the carton and the label before you email. A replacement is dispatched free and the damaged one stays with you. Dispatch within one working day, delivery two to seven working days, tracked, free to mainland UK, on the delivery page; 14-day change of mind, unused and at your carriage cost, on the returns page. The whole range is on the full length mirrors page.