‘Choose light-coloured furnishings to enhance the brightness. Choose a cohesive colour palette with light and neutral tones, ...

Seeing through windows - light and dark These are two pictures of the same location in my house. The one on the left is taken when the Sun was up outside and the other one when it was dark outside.

When the room starts to feel drab, no matter how much you rearrange your decor, the answer to improving your comfort may be the lighting. Natural light is an uplifting essential that opens the area, ...

Install some fake windows. Adding a faux window can be as simple as using some LED flat panels on your wall and then hanging curtains over them to create the illusion of light coming in through a ...

To learn how to offset the effects of short days — especially in rooms that already suffer from low natural light — we talked to 11 Dering Hall designers experienced in making a little light ...

She also likes to add windows to a pantry to keep it from feeling like “a dark hole.” “Sometimes we even do glass shelves in front of the glass, so you can see through,” she adds.

A dark, windowless room (or a room whose window looks out on a nearby wall) can be a depressing and unhappy place. The good news is, there’s a solution for a wide range of budgets and energy levels.

Q: We’ve got a lot of large windows in our home, and in the fall and winter the angle of the sun through some of the higher windows practically roasts anyone sitting in our family room.