How to increase the natural light in your home
Category Property Advice
Natural light is always preferable to artificial light in the home. It fills your space in a rich full spectrum colour that light bulbs can only aspire to replicate. It also boosts your body's serotonin levels, which makes you feel happy. Interestingly, potential homebuyers are now listing "plenty of natural light" as a crucial quality they look for when purchasing a new home, and they're ready to pay for it.
These are some of the many options for increasing the natural light in your home:
- Use mirrors to reflect light and make spaces appear bigger
Mirrors have several functions. They are not only decorative and ensure that you look beautiful, but they can also give the impression that your rooms are bigger, brighter, and better. An effective way to make use of natural light during the day is to position a mirror so that it will reflect light from a window.
Add items like decorative wall mirrors, furniture with glass, chrome, or mirrored accents, and metallic light fittings, since mirrors and other shiny objects reflect light into the room.
- Choose the correct colour palette
Light can be absorbed or reflected by colour. Dark colours absorb light, so a dark blue room with several windows would look drab and dismal in comparison to a room painted white, light grey, or light tan. The brighter colours function like a mirror, reflecting light around the space. To improve the reflecting characteristics of the surface colour, choose a shinier, satin, or semi-gloss paint.
Don't underestimate the ceiling. The space will feel bigger, higher, and brighter if the ceiling is a few shades lighter than the walls.
- Use reflective glass or tiles
Using glass tiles on your kitchen or bathroom backsplash is the next best thing to adding mirrors. In the appropriate light, glass tiles reflect nearly all of the light that strikes them.
Place very glossy ceramic tiles next to glass for a nearly equal reflected impact. When compared to a standard white subway tile backsplash, low-reflection backsplash materials such as concrete or pallet wood shine brightly. Subway tile outperforms several other materials in terms of light reflection. It is also significantly less expensive, costing only a few dollars per square foot.
- Add a skylight to your ceiling
Skylights are less likely to be covered by shadows from outside objects, and sunlight reflected off of clouds enters the home directly, bringing in more steady light than other windows. By providing specific areas with a lovely, natural light environment, skylights can increase the total value of your home.
- Install glazed doors
If you're in the market for a new door, there's no better time than now to increase the amount of natural light entering your house by installing a glazed door. A glazed door is made of glass panes that are formed to a specific size and design.
Internal glazed doors will increase the quantity of natural light that enters the space. The movement of light rapidly opens up a room and frequently gives the impression that it is larger, all while retaining privacy, insulation from heat, and draughts. By making the most of this sunshine, you can also save on your power costs because you won't need as much lighting.
Are you looking for the home of your dreams? Get in touch with our property professionals at Seeff Hillcrest & Kloof today and we will assist you in finding the right property to suit your lighting needs.
Author: Seeff Hillcrest & Kloof
