Monday, January 20, 2014

Let there be light...

...or more accurately LIGHTS, four of them.
 
We've been talking about ways of adding more natural light to our living room forever.  Our backyard is so shady that even in the middle of the day our living room is dark.  At Christmas, a family friend was raving about her SolaTubes that she's had for years.  Our biggest concern was sawing a hole in our roof, but if Cheryl's has stayed dry for 15 years, I think we're okay.
 
So, we had our SolaTubes installed today, we've only had them for a few hours of daylight so far, but I LOVE them (Keith hasn't seen them in the daylight yet, but he'll love them too...on Saturday).
 
We ended up getting 4 total, two in the living room, plus one in the hallway and Parker's Bathroom.
 
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We've been told that these guys can be kind of addictive, and I can already see how, my mind is already coming up with new places for more!

 


3 comments:

  1. wow! what a difference! we've talked a bit about those for our entryway, but the living room and hallway would be great places too!

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  2. Oh, my, I am drooling. You just gave me light-envy. That'll cost us.

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  3. These things are amazing aren't they? We could have seriously used some over on the ranch. We have a homemade (suuuuuuper ugly) one in our bathroom here and don't ever need the light during the day (and it's not even lined with the shiny stuff to make it brighter). Would be awesome to have one in our hallway. Hmmmm....

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