Chucky's Place: The Importance Of Natural Light In Your Home

Thursday, April 20, 2017

The Importance Of Natural Light In Your Home

Spring’s already here but hopefully, you have noticed that. This is the season when nature blooms with beauty but it is also the time when the weather starts to warm up. The clear skies and sunlight beams are a welcome combination that drags us out of the comfort of our homes to explore and experience the natural beauty that this season wakes up.
But, many people seek to maximize the amount of natural light that their home receives for this exact reason. Natural light makes your home come alive and show its true colors. A sunlight filled home is warm, joyful and inviting. Besides, the sunlight changes your home’s colors in a spectacular way. In the morning its all white and bright while during the evening it starts to turn into a warmer palette of colors, changing the way you perceive the colors of your interior decor.

In addition to making your home look lively, harvesting natural light has many other benefits. One of the most important and impacting advantage of using natural light in your home is saving money. But how would you save money? It’s quite simple actually. If you allow as much sunlight to enter your home, then you will not need to turn on electric lights for a longer period of the day, therefore reducing your energy consumption up to 50 percent. So now that you know the real benefits of using sunlight in your home, let’s see how you can improve the amount of it that you allow to enter the house.

First and foremost, the orientation of your home is a key factor in receiving as much sunlight as possible. You need to make sure that you have windows in the areas of your home that will get the longest exposure to the sun. For example, south-facing windows are the best for gaining as much energy as possible from the sun during the summer and the winter.
If you can’t afford to change the layout of the house so much as to re-position the windows, then you can try to free up the areas around your windows. If you can’t clear the obstructions that don’t allow the sunlight to reach your interior through the windows, you might want to think about ceiling windows. Of course, ceiling windows come with the prerequisite of having an exposed ceiling which is not a problem for single story homes or for rooms that are located on the last floor. By doing so you will expose the interior areas and this is where many people become concerned with privacy. But you can always install suitable roof blinds that you can find on the roofblinds.co.uk – the Velux online shop or the UK market which will be as effective during day or night.