How adding rooflights can enhance your home
For many of us, we will never have spent as much time indoors as we have this year. The lockdown caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic has left many holiday plans cancelled, and the usual social activated most of us love unable to take place. As a result, we have all been spending a lot more time inside our homes.
This time can lead us to examine more closely the designs of our homes and areas that we might wish to change. One change which has often been popular is adding rooflights to rooms in your home. There are numerous ways adding rooflights can enhance your home, and we’re going to go over some of them below.
Increasing natural light
The most obvious benefit to adding rooflights to your home is increasing the amount of natural light that is being brought in. More natural light can really enhance features of your home, some of which may go unnoticed. However, natural light can also have a positive impact on people’s stress levels and productivity.
Your home should be a place where you can relax, and increased levels of natural light have shown to help people reduce stress levels and feel more relaxed. Working from home has been a big talking point recently and having a good amount of natural light can help increase productivity
Bring in new colours
Windows allow us to bring the colours of the outside world into our homes, and this means we get greens from trees and the reds from bricks of other buildings. One colour we often don’t get as much of is blue from the sky. Because rooflights face towards the sky more than other windows it brings a whole new range of colours into your home from the changing colour of the sky.
Produce more usable space
One of the most popular places to install a rooflight is in a loft conversion. Turning this tradition storage space into a useable living space is great for growing families who need extra space but don’t want to move to a new house. When taking on a loft conversion, it can quickly become apparent that lighting the space with only artificial light might not look the best.
Therefore, rooflights present a more straightforward solution than changing the structure of the roof to add in a traditional vertical window. The slanted roof and windows can create beautiful lines in a loft conversion, and the shards of light you generate with a rooflight can really enhance the space.
Hanging plants
You might not have thought about it, but rooflights provide a great place to hang plants. It should be said you need to be careful about the size of plant you hang. Rooflight handles obviously aren’t designed for this, and so avoiding hanging really heavy plants or pots from them is definitely advisable. However, if you find a nice lightweight plant, it can really add a different element to your room, and obviously, the proximity to a natural light source will be beneficial to the plant.
Added value
While it might not be why you add a rooflight to a room or throughout your home, rooflights can enhance the value of your home. For the reasons mentioned above, along with other benefits including increased ventilation, potentially lower heating and electricity bills and being visually interesting, these are all attractive features to potential buyers. As a result, if your house is up for sale, potential buyers know they are getting these benefits included.
Overall, we think rooflights can make a great addition to your home and really help create a space you’ll love. Depending on the layout of your home, some rooms will be more suitable than others. There are a wide variety of options available to suit both flat and sloped roofs, so if this is something you’re thinking about, take the time to ask advice from suppliers and builders to make sure it would work with the design of your home.
