5 Brilliant Ideas to Light Up Your Life
By
utilizing the natural light in your home, you can make any room seem fresh and
full of life, but not all rooms are as easy to fill with light as others.
Enhancing your property’s natural light will make it a more relaxing place for
you to be, and will also help you sell a property (according to this
article in The
Guardian); if that is something you are considering. Here are some ideas to
help you bring in the sunshine, and light up your rooms and life.
Enlarge Your Windows
The most
straightforward way to increase natural light is to give it more space to enter
a room, and making your window space bigger is sure to do that. It is an easy
enough job for a builder to enlarge your windows, and even a small increase can
have a huge effect. Changing a window for a French door would bring in extra
light too, but you will probably need to have a girder made to measure by a
professional steel fabricator like Cannonsteelsltd.co.uk to have the correct structural
support. Of course you could also add a window, but if you are going to do
that, consider which direction the wall is facing to bring more light into your
home when you want it.
Fit a Skylight or Light Well
This is
another structural change to a property, and is not suitable for many. However,
if you live in a loft conversion or basement, it may be the only choice. This
natural light coming into a home from above may not seem much different to
having overhead lighting, but once you experience it, you will see the
difference it can make.
Consider Bigger Rooms
You may
have one room that has a lot of light flooding into it, while the next room has
hardly any; and if this is the case, you should think about combining the
spaces. You do not need to lose the extra room, as you can use a divider if an
occasion arises that demands a private space. What this will do is combine the
light from both rooms, giving you a bigger area that has tremendous light.
Add Glass Panel Doors
If you do
not want to make any structural changes to your property, you will be happy to
know that you can add natural light from one room to another; and by fitting
glass panel doors to the interior of your home you will allow the light to move
around your property. Opaque glass is probably the best idea, but if you don’t
want any kind of privacy, you could consider removing the doors altogether, and
fitting
archways for added
effect.
Strategically
placed mirrors will help bounce whatever natural light you have around your
room, so try and have at least one mirror in a room to aid the natural light.
Glass tables, shiny floors, silky soft furnishings, and even satin finished paint
on your walls can have a reflective quality, so use these things to bounce the
light as well.
Natural
light not only looks great, it makes you feel great as well. I hope that these
ideas will bring you all the light that you want, and that your days are
brighter because of it.
