How Rooflights Can Enhance Your Home’s Curb Appeal

One of the least appreciated aspects of rooflights is their ability to enhance the external appearance of a house. This is important because how a home appears to passersby - its curb appeal - can impact a home's market value by as much as 10%. In an effort to shine a light on this key benefit, we're going to use this post to examine how rooflights can enhance your home's curb appeal.

First Things First: Defining Rooflight

"Rooflight" and "skylight" are terms that are often used interchangeably. But while the two do share the primary function of bringing light into interior spaces there are some subtle differences you should be aware of. 

• While there are certainly exceptions, rooflights, in general, do not open, while a high percentage of skylights are designed with manual or powered opening mechanisms.
  
  
• Rooflights are often larger than skylights and may well have several glass panels.
  
  
• While skylights are typically smaller and usually have only one window pane.
  
  
• Rooflights are often installed on flat, or nearly flat, areas of the roof. While skylights are most often installed on pitched roofs.

5 Ways Rooflights Enhance a Home's Curb Appeal

1. By creating visual interest: No matter how new your home or what type of roofing material was used, large, unbroken roof planes are visually boring. Rooflights break up these large homogenous areas adding visual interest passersby will appreciate.
   
   
2. By giving your home a contemporary feel: Even if your home has been around awhile rooflights can give a fresh, contemporary look that will greatly enhance its curb appeal.  
   
   
3.  By shining a light (literally) on your interior: Natural light flooding into a space from above will illuminate your decor and make it visible to people from the outside making your home appear more airy and inviting.
   
   
4. By making your home appear more eco-friendly: Eco-friendly, energy-efficient homes are worth more than other homes. Rooflights can give your home the appearance of being environmentally friendly, because it is.
   
   
5.  By making your home look more valuable: Rooflights will make your home appear to be more valuable. And in a fortuitous twist, the fact that it looks more valuable (due to increased curb appeal) will lead to it having a higher value.
   Get in Touch With Rooflights Roof Lanterns

Curb appeal can have a significant impact on the value of your home and rooflights can greatly enhance your home's curb appeal. To learn more about any of our rooflights give us a call on 020 8087 2004.

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