The Best Places to Add a Roof Lantern to Your Home

The Best Places to Add a Roof Lantern to Your Home

The Best Places to Add a Roof Lantern to Your Home

Roof lanterns offer renovators and designers a bright way to transform homes. They illuminate spaces, adding anything from accents to grand centrepieces with delicate positioning and sunlight. However, like the house itself, roof lanterns depend on location. Understanding the ins and outs of each possible location helps homeowners pick the perfect place for a new roof light in their home.

the best places to a roof lantern

What is a Roof Lantern?

Roof lights add used glazed panes to link interior and exterior spaces. They include things like light tunnels, structural glass roofs, and in this case, roof lanterns. Skypod roof lanterns create pods of pitched panes, adding a glass prism that extends roof spaces in the sky. Their angled panes triple the light from a conventional window by collecting Omnidirectional sunlight and pouring it into living spaces from above.

Lighting Dark Rooms With Roof Lanterns

Roof lanterns perform their most transformative work on gloomy, internal spaces where light otherwise struggles to reach. These rooms make their own case for a roof light. However, if your home features well-lit rooms already, but you’d still like to add a roof lantern, consider other factors like ventilation and overheating.

Many designs incorporate ventilation options, including breathable roof lanterns and airflow. This prevents rooms from becoming too hot and stuffy after renovation.

Roof lanterns can aid airflow in damp or humid rooms such as kitchens and bathrooms by providing more space for circulation. Some roof lanterns feature opening panels to aid cooling.

Roof Lanterns in North and South-Facing Rooms

In the northern hemisphere, south-facing rooms receive direct sunlight for longer during the day. This means roof lanterns can drench south-facing rooms in natural light and catch beautiful sunsets throughout the year.

In these rooms, consider the tones and colours of walls and furnishings, as darker colours absorb heat and grow warmer, while paler walls shine brightly and reflect light. Mirrors and mirrored designs may also flash or glare in direct sunlight, providing a well-lit golden hour photo opportunity each evening.

Including a roof lantern in north or south-facing rooms depends on your ultimate goals for the renovation. North facing roof lanterns provide calm, focussing light for a cosy living room or focussed study. On the other hand, roof lanterns in south-facing rooms create warm open areas for charming gatherings in communal family space.

Roof Lantern Symmetry

Roof lanterns work best from the centre of a space, to spread natural light equally from corner to corner. Central symmetry creates a pleasing appearance, focussing the eye on whatever the light touches, whereas wonky angles might jar or confuse the space.

The roof lantern should match the shape of their given space, with pyramid skypods suiting square rooms, and longer panes suiting hallways or attic spaces.

Multi-Level Light

Roof lights and lanterns let natural light flow through spaces from top to bottom. Many designers and renovators maximise this quality by spreading it through multiple floors of a building. Staircases and stairwells can be gloomy and boring places, but roof lanterns turn them into a centrepiece feature. When roof lanterns open up stairway spaces, ambient light travels between the floors with residents and guests, drawing the eyes and illuminating nooks and crannies.

The same effect functions in mezzanine floors and raised levels. Skypod roof lanterns extend space, making open areas grand and welcoming. Natural, dynamic skyscapes beat ceiling designs any day, and roof lanterns maximise space over multiple floors with clarity and grace.

Roof Lanterns in Different Rooms

Studies

Light brings clarity to a study space, focussing the mind on groggy mornings. In studies and work areas, roof lanterns shine a light on desks and workers, fostering organised productivity.

Kitchens

Like work areas, kitchens require light for focus and precision. Protect your fingers when chopping vegetables with clear daylight by installing a roof lantern over a kitchen space. The light can also help kitchens with plants and herbs growing, aiding photosynthesis in the cooking area.

Bathrooms

Many homeowners opt for white bathroom designs, amplifying any additional light from roof lanterns. Some opt for a roof lantern above their baths to unwind at night below the stars.

Roof lanterns function fine in any room. However, their specific qualities accentuate room function in different ways from place to place. Knowing the qualities and concerns they bring to each room helps guide homeowners to their ideal roof lantern location.

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