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One upgrade that can improve the aesthetics and comfort of your home is the installation of skylight windows. Read on for more detailed reasons to undertake such a renovation.  

Create an Illusion of Spaciousness

A skylight window helps to create a feeling of spaciousness — thus they're particularly apt for small rooms, but all homes can benefit. Brighter rooms tend to feel larger, while dark areas feel more confined. Providing a particularly efficient source of natural light, horizontally-angled skylights capture up to three times the illumination of similarly sized vertical windows. The reason for this is that vertical openings receive reflected light from the ground and nearby structures, whereas skylights admit direct light from the sky. 

Additionally, overhead illumination typically lights a room more evenly, which also helps to enlarge it visually. In a place with vertical windows only, there might be bright areas directly in front, but dark spots in corners and on the other side of the room. With all regions bright and open, and with dark spots lightened, rooms appear larger.  

Cool Your Home in the Summer

Another reason to consider a skylight window is if you'd like a cooler, more comfortable home in summer. A skylight's location on a building is ideally positioned to help. Hot air naturally moves upwards. Thus, within a home, warm air indoors will travel as high as it can until it reaches an obstruction, and therefore it will collect around the ceiling or upper stories. An open high skylight window allows this air to escape. On the other hand, an open vertical window low on a wall will not attract and release the same amount of hot air that is naturally surging upwards.

You can also use an open skylight window to create a moving current of refreshing air through your home. Once the outside temperature cools in the evening or a cold change passes through the region, open both the skylight, plus a lower vertical window on the side of your home that is catching the breeze. This incoming air will help to create a natural circular flow as the hot air goes out the skylight, creating a suction that pulls air in the vertical window. This way, you can efficiently cool your home by natural means and without cranking up your air conditioning. You'll be helping the environment also in reducing energy consumption that typically emits harmful greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.