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Adding More Natural Light To The Home

Are there some rooms in your house that just never get enough light? You don’t want to add too many lamps or it can look stuffed, but when you get, replacement windows in Plano, TX, you might just be able to open those rooms up with more natural light through some of the things you do with the new windows. Here are a few ways to add more light to your home, where it is needed.

Get The Replacement Windows—Enough Said

Older windows have larger frames and smaller glass space. When you get new windows, you are getting today’s technologically advanced windows. These windows have much smaller frames and larger glass space, which will automatically bring in more light. You don’t necessarily have to do anything at all and the new windows are going to bring in the light you want for your home.

Consider Skylights

There are certain rooms where you might want more natural light, but you also don’t have wall space to spare. Think about the kitchen, for example. There are too many cabinets and nowhere for a window. Or the bathroom, which also doesn’t have a lot of spare wall room. Plus, you need privacy in that room, too. Putting a skylight into those rooms can bring natural light in from above so you use no wall space. Plus, in the bathroom, you still have all of the privacy you need.

Get New Window Coverings

One problem you might have in your home is that the old window coverings are too heavy and dark to let the light stream in. Take away the heavy curtains and put up sheer blinds instead. Even when they are closed, some of the light filters through. You can also consider something like shutters which, when they are open, let all of the light through into the space. A new window covering might be just what you need to allow in more light.

Put Windows Around Windows

If you are getting new windows, it’s a good chance to make changes to the patterns. You could add windows around your existing windows, for example, and bring in tons more light every time you add a new window to the space.

Get Bigger Windows

Instead of adding windows, you could just take your old windows and make them larger when you get new windows. It’s easy enough to do and can bring in more natural lighting to help with your room’s welcoming atmosphere.

replacement windows in Plano, TXConsider Glass Doors

Solid doors don’t let in any light at all, but if you replace them with something that has glass in them, or is completely glass, you are going to change that fact really fast. Glass doors can work wonders for the amount of light you are getting into the space.

If you want more light in your home, and you are getting replacement windows in Plano, TX, there are lots of things you can do to make spaces look larger and more open for your family. Contact us today.

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Lynn Foster founded Foster Exteriors in 1987 in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex area.  In 2007, after 20 successful and award winning years, our company became Foster Exteriors Window Company, specializing in energy efficient replacement windows and doors.

Foster Exteriors Window Company

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