Mirrors are typical hung over something - a sideboard or console. I'm not a fan of this mirrors, but if you love it, hang it the way your husband suggested. It should either be centered on the wall (if there is nothing under it), or centered on what's underneath.

Every dining room I ever go in is too crowded, like I have to be careful when I scoot my chair out. I prefer no sideboard or other furniture in dining rooms so there is plenty of room to relax and move around. Wha specifically do you not like- the actual mirror or placing one there?

Centered on the wall looks best.

Neither one looks right IMO. It just highlights the uncentered table.

Mirrors also should reflect something worth looking at, but in this case it seems like it would just reflect the light fixture.

The table is centered in the room under the light

I don't think the mirror really does anything for your room - but centered would be the best option

This is the other dining room wall.if the mirror isn’t the best choice, any suggestions on what would look good? I feel like a big canvas is out because there is a huge canvas painting on the wall opposite this one across the foyer.

This is the canvas across from where the mirror would be

This is the foyer that separates the 2 rooms

Your mirror should not be used in that room

You could select a round mirror and add candle sconces on either side of the mirror

The room could benefit from the texture and color art could afford.

Mirrors do not belong in a dining room. That is a place for art.

The circle mirror is interesting, whichever mirror you choose, keep it centered because when something is not centered your eye goes right to it. It is distracting and may not be the thing in the room that you may want to focus on .

Can the mirror go on the wall where the star is? I believe it would be centered, it would reflect light and the chandelier...

Then you could put something else on the other wall...maybe a set of three pictures..

I am one who likes a mirror in the dining room. It's NOT wrong unless there's some law I'm not aware of...

A. Nobody wants to watch themselves eat.

B. When everyone's seated, will the mirror reflect anything to them but the ceiling?

Doesn't seem like a good place for a mirror at all.

More importantly, haven't we had this discussion already a few weeks ago? I seem to remember that room with the star.

Tatts- just got the mirror today and put the star up a couple weeks ago and have not posted it so someone else must have a similar room with star

Pay no mind to tatts, who is a perpetual grouch.

Also, nobody but NOBODY watches themselves eat in a mirror. We HAVE already had that discussion. It's a ridiculous "reason" for not liking a mirror in a dining room.

I have a kick-a** chandelier in my dining room. It's all sorts of sparkly. So the mirror reflects that and I get that times 2. Since the chandelier is NOT at the same height as we are, we have no problems.

As to the fact that if you don't want to watch yourself eat...then don't watch yourself eat. Unless of course, you have a compulsion to do so, and you have atrocious table manners. I can see how that might be a problem.

Anyway, kat, my suggestions stands. I have a couple rooms like that where some of it is symmetrical and some of it isn't, so I get how tricky it is.

I like the round mirror...centered on the wall as well. Do you mind me asking where you found and the maker of your chandalier ? I'm looking for one and I like it!

Unfortunately I’m not sure, it was in our house when we bought it.

I came across your thread and I am also updating/decorating a couple of rooms as well. I am not into the modern farmhouse look either and there is so much of that out there when shopping.

Yes, it’s extremely hard to find non farmhouse, non coastal decor! I like both looks, just not for my home, theyre not me. Coastal is but I sort of believe coastal is a strange choice when you don’t have a beach house.

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Another gallery example.

A darker wall color above your wainscoting would lift the look of the room as well. Something to consider.

I really like the idea of a collage wall but I’m afraid of one. We’re the kind of people that level our pictures and the ocd in me could probably not handle a constantly shifting collage wall.

You could do plates also and they wouldn't move. You can get little rubber bumpers for the back of pictures that hold them in place. But I know what you mean. Just trying to offer some alternative ideas.

I would not put a mirror in a dining room, to a lot of people that is weird! What is the real reason for the mirror? It would not make the room bigger.

Ken