Inspiring Home Series: Your Living Room Reimagined

PROUD SPONSOR Designing Your Dream Living Room Let’s talk about the living room. You know, the space where we curl up on the couch to watch our favorite television show. The place we come to strike up conversations, entertain guests, or eat late-night dinners. The room we live in. As the center of your home, you want your living room to be a bright, open, and comfortable space. And nothing brightens and makes a space feel welcoming quite like daylight. Natural light is powerful. It brings out true colors. It makes rooms feel larger. It lowers our dependency on electricity. And it makes us feel...

Open your space in a way light bulbs and paint never could. Inspiring Home Series: Living Room

Living Room Colors Meet Natural Light Have you ever ventured into a paint store and browsed through the various paint swatches? You most likely found a color you thought would look great in your living room, but as soon as you slid it under the light simulator, the color changed. Light and color have a unique relationship. Light influences colors, changing their shade and tint constantly. Colors respond to a variety of different light variables, including location of the sun, time of day, and type of light. Knowing how the colors you choose transform when added to your room is a good trick to...

Natural lighting can be ideal for both your health and your energy bill. Inspiring Home Series: Living Room

West: As the last room to get sun, west-facing rooms tend to appear shadier. Warmer paint colors counter those muted tones. Take it up a notch and use earthy colors, which give your space a more balanced feel when the sun finally makes its way in. South: Whew, south-facing rooms are one of the sunniest places in our homes. Full of energy and daylight! Tone down these rooms with softer hues, like green, gray, or lighter shades of blue. Time of Day We all know that the sun doesn’t stay in one spot. As it moves, it dramatically changes the look, feel, and paint color in your home! When choosing...

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Three Reasons to Love Skylights in Your Living Room 1 Functionality Positioned on your roof, skylights allow for uninhibited daylight to enter the space from above, letting you enjoy more freedom to rearrange your space down below. Swap your décor or change the entire layout without ever blocking natural light. 2 Lower Electric Bill Stop depending on artificial lights to brighten your living room space. Use skylights! Daylight entering through your skylight illuminates your space with free energy, saving you more money on your electric bill. Additionally, you can open VELUX venting skylights...

Creating a New Living Room Focal Point It’s time for something new and different in your space! You’ll do just about anything – push your couch to a different wall, update the décor, you name it – to give your space a fresh look. Because, after admiring other living room designs and layouts, all you want is something new and different for your home. Look up! Right there above your head is a whole other wall of untapped design potential that many people don’t notice. Shift your outlook to a new focal point on the ceiling – install beautiful wooden beams, paint it an accent color, or install skylights!...

Your Life Brightened with Natural Light Natural light can enrich your health and well-being, and bring a whole lot of positivity. At VELUX, we believe in daylight and fresh air because of their restorative and transformative powers. Daylight is the source of nutrients that power us through the day, rebalances our circadian rhythm, keeps us healthy, and gives us a more positive feeling. So, let’s take a closer look at how natural light can really brighten your life with all its benefits. Inspiring Home Series: Living Room Vitamin D Storage We need Vitamin D for our bones to stay strong, and to...

Higher Productivity Feel like you’re dragging in the morning, or you can’t seem to get those last bits of chores around the house done? This is your body letting you know it needs more natural light. Studies have shown that the more we work in natural light, the higher energy levels we have compared to artificial light. Nothing feels as good as waking up from a restful night’s sleep. You feel as if you’re instantly ready to tackle the day without coffee or a yawn in sight. Natural light can help you get there! Sunlight is an environmental indicator that helps set the phases of our body’s natural...

Inspiring Home Series: Living Room

Skylights for Your Living Room The VELUX Solar Powered Fresh Air Skylight System When you pair natural light with fresh air, you open your living room to a world of crisper, clean air and brighter days. Solar-Powered Remote-Controlled Shade Pre-Installed for Total Light & Climate Control New Solar Powered Skylight System Basic Installation Complex Installation Replacement Solar Powered Skylight System Basic Installation Inspiring Home Series: Living Room Complex Installatio

Solar-Powered Remote-Controlled Shade Pre-Installed for Total Light & Climate Control The VELUX Electric Fresh Air Skylight System Let abundant natural light flow through your living room while blocking heat. The venting feature of this electric skylight reduces the need for air conditioning and improves indoor air quality. New Electric Skylight System Basic Installation Complex Installation Replacement Electric Skylight System Basic Installation Solar-Powered Remote-Controlled Shade Pre-Installed for Total Light & Climate Control Complex Installation The VELUX Fixed Skylight System With versatile...

Solar-Powered Remote-Controlled Shade Pre-Installed for Total Light & Climate Control The VELUX Manual Fresh Air Skylight System The manual-venting feature of this skylight brings all the light into your space, while letting go of stale air. An operator hook makes it easy to open and close the skylight to improve your living room’s air quality. New Manual Skylight System Basic Installation Complex Installation Replacement Manual Skylight System Basic Installation Complex Installation The VELUX Sun Tunnel® Skylight Even small spaces deserve to be awash in natural light. If your living room cannot...