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After we purchased our home seven years in the past, the upstairs felt largely unfinished apart from one visitor room (visitor room). Our first step was to finish the open attic room, drywall, and add electrical and flooring. After we moved in we did that just about instantly and it turned Charlie’s bed room. Within the midst of our busy day by day lives, we ended up leaving the remainder of the upstairs as is, ignoring a big chunk of unused area on the high of the steps. It turned a dumping floor for toys, train gear we didn’t use sufficient, and litter.

Lastly, on the finish of 2023, I really feel like I am able to sort out this drawback. I envisioned it being gentle and vibrant, with a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf full of video games, books, and artistic initiatives. I wished this area to really feel like a comfortable nook, away from on a regular basis life, the place we may very well be artistic collectively as a household. Step one, in fact, is including a skylight!I’ve put in Velux Skylight On the A-frame North, 9 to be actual, we completely love how straightforward it’s to put in and use! The skylights are photo voltaic powered and the perfect half is that they have inbuilt photo voltaic blinds so no electrician required and on vibrant mornings we simply shut the blinds!

For transparency and planning functions, I wished to share a price breakdown if you’re additionally eager about putting in a skylight. Every skylight itself prices $2,100. I then needed to pay the roofer $2400 for set up and the lumber they used price $653. The whole price of the mission was roughly $10,000, together with the paint job that needed to be completed after set up. The skylight set up took two days – and my residence was solely open for a number of hours so we did not have to depart or transfer in any approach! The remainder of the ending work — like reinstalling the drywall and putting in new skylights — took a number of extra days. After about 1 week, my residence returned to its regular clear and tidy area.

It makes me surprise why I waited so lengthy to make the change! I want I had completed this years in the past! One of many large adjustments I did not notice was going to be the brand new lights in our downstairs hallway! Now the sunshine is pouring down the stairwell and it’s so lovely!

*Due to VELUX for collaborating on this text!