When a home is devoid of natural light, it can feel dingy.
A lack of natural light can make you feel gloomy. As we’ve spent more time indoors than ever before this past year, ensuring you have natural light in your home is more important than ever.
But if you live in a home without access to lots of natural light, how can you trick yourself into feeling like there’s more than there is? Luckily, there are a few tips and tricks you can use to magnify the light in your space.
Mirrors
By reflecting the natural light you already have in your home, mirrors will make you feel like there’s much more light in your home.
Put your mirrors in easily viewable places in your home – this way, even if you are standing somewhere deep into a room, you can see the reflection of natural light and trick yourself into thinking there’s more natural light in your home than there really is.
Mirrors are also great to make your space feel bigger. Because of this, you won’t just increase the feeling of natural light but reduce the sense of gloomy dinginess.
Replace your windows
A more drastic way to increase natural light in your home is to actually increase the amount of natural light you have. An easy way to do this is to replace your windows.
There are plenty of types of windows. Some, despite being big, won’t actually maximize the amount of natural light in your home. Frosted windows will reduce the light intake in your home or windows with large frames. By replacing your windows, you can think specifically about which windows will suit your home best to bring out the most natural light.
This tip isn’t one you can DIY yourself. Look out for window replacement companies, like Renewal by Andersen Windows.
Light colors
Light colors – whether this be paint colors, wallpapers, flooring, or furniture – will make your space feel full of natural light. Think about it: we associate dark colors with nighttime and light colors with daytime. For this reason, using light colors in your home will trick your brain into thinking there is more natural light than there actually is.
Stay away from dark colors – they will only maximise the dinginess of a space. The gloomier the colors, the gloomier you’ll feel.
Artificial light
It might seem like an oxymoron to use artificial light to make you feel like there’s more natural light, but trust it will work. Light technology has come so far in the past decade; plenty of artificial lights have been made purposefully to recreate the natural light.
Depending on the room of the house you are looking to improve, there will be something to help you out. For example, putting fake skylights in a hallway can bring a sense of natural light to a place that rarely gets any natural light.
Natural light will brighten up your life!
Ensuring you’ve got natural light will lift your mood, help your home look better, and make you more productive.
