# Mirrored closet doors - yea or nay? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 5, 2018, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mirrored-closet-doors-yea-or-nay/815499 "2018-06-05T23:03:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mirrored-closet-doors-yea-or-nay/815499/1 "2018-06-05T23:03:57Z")
I have one that I need to replace. It’s a non-bedroom closet. Are mirrored ones considered tacky or dated? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mirrored-closet-doors-yea-or-nay/815499/2 "2018-06-06T00:57:34Z")
False dichotomy. Tacky and dated. 😃 It depends a bit though. Those sliding mirror doors people did in the 80s are tacky and dated. If you do a mirror inset into a single panel door, not so much. Even better, have it on the inside so you use it when you need it, and then it’s shut away when not. If your room feels small, keep it on the outside and you’ll make it feel bigger. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mirrored-closet-doors-yea-or-nay/815499/3 "2018-06-06T01:20:39Z")
They’ve never been my cup of tea, but go by what _you_ like. If a mirrored door opens up the room, or brightens a space and you find it attractive, then go for it. Whatever you do, don’t decide by what some over-priveleged c\*\*\* says on a house-hunting TV show. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mirrored-closet-doors-yea-or-nay/815499/4 "2018-06-06T01:32:43Z")
Fine and useful in a bedroom, elsewhere kind of unusual. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mirrored-closet-doors-yea-or-nay/815499/5 "2018-06-06T01:58:53Z")
Its good way to see if someone in your house is a vampire or not, put the garlic away! ---
**Author:** ![DavidwithanR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@DavidwithanR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidwithanR)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mirrored-closet-doors-yea-or-nay/815499/6 "2018-06-06T03:02:00Z")
The “is it tacky/dated” would matter more if you were renovating with intent to sell soon, and matter less if you like the idea and you’re staying for the foreseeable. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mirrored-closet-doors-yea-or-nay/815499/7 "2018-06-06T03:28:43Z")
The question is, do you like them? I don’t, but I suspect there may be some vampire in my ancestry. My decorative mirrors are small and the decorative part is the frame. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mirrored-closet-doors-yea-or-nay/815499/8 "2018-06-06T04:33:24Z")
> [@DavidwithanR](#): > > The “is it tacky/dated” would matter more if you were renovating with intent to sell soon, and matter less if you like the idea and you’re staying for the foreseeable. Yeah that was my primary concern. The “when” is up in the air in this economy ☹ Thanks for the input, all. I think I will go for non-mirrored, bifold if they make ones that fit in the given space, another sliding if not. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mirrored-closet-doors-yea-or-nay/815499/9 "2018-06-06T08:33:55Z")
Mirrored doors make the room look larger. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mirrored-closet-doors-yea-or-nay/815499/10 "2018-06-06T08:43:57Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Mirrored doors make the room look larger. I swear I just wear tinfoil underwear for the fashion, no other reason. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mirrored-closet-doors-yea-or-nay/815499/11 "2018-06-06T10:15:19Z")
Nay ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mirrored-closet-doors-yea-or-nay/815499/12 "2018-06-06T11:58:56Z")
I have them in my teeny tiny bedroom. Not my favorite but as others have mentioned, it creates the illusion of space. Mirrors on the ceiling are another story. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mirrored-closet-doors-yea-or-nay/815499/13 "2018-06-06T12:30:00Z")
We have mirrored closet doors in the _bathroom_. Watching yourself sit on the toilet all the time is like having your very own Total Perspective Vortex. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mirrored-closet-doors-yea-or-nay/815499/14 "2018-06-06T12:54:09Z")
I just (finally) got rid of the last of the mirrored sliding doors from our 1975 rancher. I didn’t so much hate the mirrors as much as I hated that, fully open, you had only 18" of access to the closet. I due to the space constraints, we need bifold doors in the 2 bedrooms, but the hall closet has a full 36" door, and it’s wonderful!! No more rasslin’ to get the vacuum cleaner out! And thanks to Craigslist, a nice man came and took them all away. Yay! ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mirrored-closet-doors-yea-or-nay/815499/15 "2018-06-06T15:00:24Z")
> [@Enola\_Gay](#): > > Nay Yep. First thing that was tossed when my wife and I moved into our house. Couldn’t give the old doors away either, they ended up at a landfill. ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mirrored-closet-doors-yea-or-nay/815499/16 "2018-06-06T19:21:42Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > We have mirrored closet doors in the _bathroom_. Watching yourself sit on the toilet all the time is like having your very own Total Perspective Vortex. I can beat that. In my bathroom, the bathtub is opposite the toilet. 3 walls around the tub have 4’ tall mirrors covering the entire walls. Since they exactly fit the alcove, they must have been custom sized. So sitting on the toilet, you get a 3 way mirror view of yourself. Right next to the tub alcove? A closet with mirrored doors. Over the sink cabinet? A 3’x4’ mirror in an intricate frame, spray painted silver. But - to the OP. I actually don’t always mind mirrored doors in bedrooms. I’m not convinced the room looks bigger, but it sure can brighten a room, without needing to use lights. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mirrored-closet-doors-yea-or-nay/815499/17 "2018-06-06T19:37:42Z")
I remodeled my daughter’s room and it’s kind of small. Doors on her closet opening would have limited the space even more. So I put sliding mirror doors on the closet to save space and to make the room look larger. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mirrored-closet-doors-yea-or-nay/815499/18 "2018-06-08T14:54:26Z")
They are tacky and dated. All I can picture are sliding mirror doors with the tacky gold-bronze edging. _Shudders in 90s horror_ With the bifolds, don’t get the ones with the faux shutters, either. Those are so 90s, too, especially the ones that were only shutters on the top. Solid doors. Classic, clean.