Kitchen: Before skylights

It’s mid-July and I’m listening to cars driving through puddles on the highway outside our office.  Thanks, rain, for the beautiful scenery around here, but you make it kind of dark sometimes.  To maximize natural daylight inside a home,

Kitchen: After skylights

even on cloudy days, skylights can be a wonderful thing.   We recently installed 6 skylights in a client’s 70’s era home in a forested area.  We used skylights sized to fit between the existing rafters so that expensive structural modifications were not required.  And we always install skylights with low-E, argon gas injected dual glass panes to keep heat inside in the winter and outside in the summer.  As far as the clients with the 70’s ranch are concerned, their home experienced a dramatic transformation… like night to day.