Apparel display
Mirror Placement on Boutique Walls and Fitting Rooms
Put glass where customers decide. A leftover mirrored panel facing the door is a stockroom reflection, not merchandising.
Mirror placement on boutique walls and in fitting rooms is a service fixture, not décor. Independent retailers in Thailand hang a full-length glass wherever a panel is empty. The shops that convert put a mirror where a customer decides — the fitting room, a try-on stance, a shoe bay — and keep the door sightline as a story, not a reflection of the stockroom.
Fitting room fixtures is the room. This page is the glass. Layout still wants decompression empty of a mirrored wall that shows the street before the product.
What a mirror is for
A customer checks fit, colour, and whether they will pay. That happens in the fitting room first. A wall mirror on the sales floor is a try-on stance for shoes, hats, or a quick outfit — shoes, hats. It is not a substitute for a room that closes.
Fitting-room glass should let the customer see the outfit without seeing the shop, and without a lighting cave. We do not publish lux claims. Light in the room is a line on the quotation.
Sales-floor glass sits off the door, at a height the customer actually uses. A mirrored column facing the entrance is a disco, not merchandising.
Beauty may need a seated mirror at the tester bay — tester counter. That is a service surface, not a boutique perimeter.
Do not tile an entire slatwall run in mirror. Empty grooves plus mirror is two unfinished specs — panel layout.
Where it should not sit
In the first two metres as the hero. Opposite the wrap so every queue is a selfie wall. Behind a four-way so you only see hangers. On a door that slams.
Mall manuals sometimes own mirrored finishes on the corridor — landlord restrictions. Street sun on a mirrored window volume fights the window story.
Materials: edge finish, whether it is glass or acrylic, how it fixes. We do not publish shatter claims. Fixing method belongs next to the drill rule.
Common mistakes
- Mirror as leftover wall filler.
- No mirror in the fitting room, three on the floor.
- Full-length in a shoe bay without a seat — customers still need to sit.
- Mirrored wrap fascia that cannot pack.
What belongs on the quotation
- Count and size per location (room vs floor vs tester).
- Height from finished floor.
- Fixing method and landlord rule.
- Light in the fitting room as a separate line.
- Language of the document, Thai or English.
Send shop type and whether apparel try-on is in a room or on the floor. That is enough to specify glass as conversion, not décor.
Glass where they decide, not where the panel is empty
If you are fitting a boutique in Thailand, put the first mirror in the fitting room. Send the shop type, the size, and the opening month through the fixture plan form. We will return one fixture schedule and one written quotation — Thai or English — covering rooms, floor glass, and the walk.
Common questions
- Do I need a floor mirror if I have fitting rooms?
- Often one try-on stance for shoes or a quick look. Do not multiply floor mirrors and skip the room.
- Should the wrap fascia be mirrored?
- Usually no. Packing and privacy both lose. Keep the wrap as a work surface.
- Can I cover slatwall in mirror panels?
- You can, and you lose grooves. Specify hangrail and accessories, or specify a mirror as its own bay.
- How high should a sales-floor mirror sit?
- At the height the customer uses for that product. Write millimetres. A fashion lookbook is not a specification.
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