↓ Evelyn’s Response

Fiona, your instinct to check the property questionnaire was the right one, and I want to address it properly before anything else, because it is the kind of practical concern that tends to get lost when people start talking about the more unusual aspects of a situation like yours.

First, the practical: Scottish property disclosure requirements cover material defects — structural issues, damp, planning complications, neighbour disputes. A liminal adjacency in the mirror-plane does not, at present, qualify as a material defect under Scots law, and in my experience of similar cases, no surveyor has yet developed the professional vocabulary to include it in a Home Report. You are not concealing anything legally meaningful. That said, I would gently suggest that if a prospective buyer stands in front of your hallway mirror and sees a terracotta-pillow living room, they may raise the matter themselves, at which point honesty is simply the more efficient approach. ‘The mirrors show a closely matched parallel interior’ is not a dealbreaker for everyone. Some buyers would consider it a feature.