Natural daylight in your new Extension

The current trend to is build an extension across the full width of the ground floor of your house, and to knock through the existing rooms to combine creating a large open plan kitchen / living space, this creates the extra floor space that you and your family require without the need to move.

However creating a fully flexible space in this manner lengthens the floor plan which can reduce the natural daylight reaching into back of your new living space, potentially leaving your new space dark and unwelcoming.

To overcome this problem we suggest to our clients that we install new large folding doors to the new rear elevation, which during the summer allows an unbroken flow from living space to garden, but more importantly it maximise the natural daylight into the space. To supplement this we also recommend the insertion of either a series of rooflights or large frameless skylights into the roof, which will increase the natural light into the deeper spaces, while creating the “wow” factor.

Whichever style of skylight you choose we feel it is important to choose self cleaning glass, and one that will provide solar reflectance to reduce overheating in the summer months.

 

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