PAGE Z WEDNESDAY SEPTEMOER 21, 1983, WHITBY FREE PRESS PULL-OUT SEC'rION How ToDo Mirror MagicIn Your Home These days when, houslng coots are get- tlng blgger and rooms are getting smailer, mirrors are becoming the answer. Decorators in new f 3O Dundas St. E. >579u8O48 model homes have known the secret for qulte some time, wlth a littie bit of furniture, a couple of pictures and a mirror wall they have turned an B' x 10' cub- byhole Into a palatial bailroom. Mirror wails have corne a long way in the last few years. Bronze mirror (mnirror wlth a light brown tint) is very 686«2288 *FRIE ESTIMATES. CHECK OUT YORK VALUE AT SUPERIOR HEATING & AIR CON DITIONING YORK CHPON ALEE TILAN MaxiMier AD-ON H AT UMP YORK. VALUE YOU CAN LIVE WITH. e $8000 Govemment grant for e Cools in summer, heats in winter où converalons e Built In Canada 251 SIMCOE ST. Se OSHAWA 723«3407 SNAP SýERVICES' mlrrored slldlng doors. They wil enhance the room as weil as belng very functional. Although I strongly recommend that you get a professional to do your large mlrrored walls, Most home handymen are very capable of handling Most bathrooms mirrors. Modern mirror clips arevery easy to use and almost unseen after the mirror has been hung. An important thlng to remember when puttlng up a mirror, is that there should be an air space behind it of about 1/8 of an inch to allow the mirror back to breath. This will expand the 111e of the mirror for many years. When you measure up for the mirror, if it la going up to an adjacent wail, check to sSc that it Is square and straight, you might want to ailow yourself a little more room. A 1/4 inch space around la usually adaquate. popular these days. People are uslng it on walls to either get alday from, the sometimes harsh look of the clear mirror, or to add a shade of brown to a wail to compliment existing colours in the room. Bronze wil definitly not go with ail room, set- tinga and colours but it does go extremely well with creams, beiges, golds, tans and rust. To accent mirror edges or boarders there are " mouldings available in gold, brown and silver. The gold edging or ' mould can reaily add a touch of class to a mirror wail and com- pliment brass ornimen- ts or lightsin-the sme room, puuling it ail together. Mixtures of, bronze and clear inirror strips are also very new and the patterns one mîght do with method are almost limitless.- People find it bard to imagine what a wail of mirror would look like on one of there walls. There are some points here to consider. Look at what the mirror wiill be reflecting, I maintain that'a mirror wail wiil only look as good as what it reflects. In a long narrow room don't put a mirror on the end wal, it wlll double the length of the room and appear like a tube. Put it on the long wall to wlden the room. HaUs, bedrooms, bathrooms, dens, and dining rooms are ail good candidates for mirror. Some bedrooms and entranceways have closets tatcan quite easily be turned into other types of energy- conserving heating sys- tems, says ART. The categories are: 0 Air-to.-air heat pump. The air-to-air heat pump, which trans- fers heat fromn outdoor air to the air indoors, is the typical heat pump installed in most homes, says ART. While the air- to-air heat pump's out- put fluctuates according to outdoor tempera- tures, it is capable of reducing electric heat- ing bilils by 30 to 50 per cent. *Water-source heat pump. This type of heat pump collects beat from water rather than air, and is typically design- ed for large installations that have a dependable source of water such as a lake, reservoir or weil. Since -water tempera- tures change slowly, particularly in under- ground. sources, the water-source heat pump functions smoothly. Its output doesn't fluctuate according to the outdoor temperature. e Solar-asslsted heat pump. For economic reasons, most residen- tial solar heating sys- tems are designed to provide onily part - usually about haîf - of the home's heating needs. Supplementary heat - a traditional fur- nace or heat pump - is provided. Recause it is highly* efficient in itself, and because it is capable of gathering heat from a 10w-temperature sour- ce, the heat pump is compatible with many solar heating systems, explains ART. While the heat pump is most often installed simply as a back-up heating unit, some manufacturers have modified heat pumps 80 they are fully integrated into a solar heating system. Most commonly, this type of solar-assisted heat pump is connected into the systerft 50 that it re- ceives heat collected by solar coilectors. Other solar heat pump* sys- tema use bypass methods that bring the heat pump "don line" as needed. The Heat Pump: Link To Solar Future on MIRROR Sllding Close t Doors and Mirror Watts. We will ais. replace your window glass SNAP-SERVICES l"Mîdway Carpet SI You may not realize it, but if you have a heat pump at home, you've entered the solar era - even though your roof may boast asbestos shingles instead of solar collectors. The heat pump la in a sense a solar device, ac- cording to the Air- Conditioning and Refri- geration Institute (ART) because it collects "free" heat from the outside air and converts it into heated air for your home. This "free" heat is generated and renewed each day when the sun's rays strike the earth and its atmosphere. Thus in a sense the ear- th itself is a "solar collector" - and the heat pump is an efficient means 0f coilecting the heat generated by the sun. Because the heat pump collecta heat from a low temperature source (air or water) rather than a high- temperature source (fuel combustion) it's becomîng an important element in solar and