How to get light into your gloomy Edwardian or Victorian house?
The conventional approach is to knock through from front to back to create open plan living but this often leaves you with spaces you can't effectively use and doesn't tackle the stair well and hallway which are generally the darkest areas.
Our approach is to open up the ceilings and punch a skylight through the roof to send daylight cascading down through the house. A few high level horizontal internal windows can then send this borrowed light to adjacent rooms.
The effect is stunning, almost ethereal, as clouds scud by and light bounces down to illuminate your day
Here's one we did recently. Its an odd view point due to the shape of the space. That's the balustrade (spindles to be fitted) shooting diagonally across
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