Aliwood Roof Lanterns Discuss Refreshing Your Home This Summer

With Summer approaching, you may be thinking about rejuvenating and refreshing your home in time for the sunshine to arrive!

There are plenty of ways you can do this – whether it’s through décor or home fittings and fixtures, prepping your house for Summer can be fun and surprisingly simple to do! Here at Aliwood roof lanterns, we are experts in home improvements, here are our top tips on getting your humble abode ready for the warmer weather.

Making Your Rooms Cooler

The temperature of a room in the summer is extremely important. A breezy, cool setting creates the ultimate holiday-like ambience and ensures that there is adequate ventilation within your home in the summer months. Coolness within a room can be achieved in a few ways. Opening windows throughout the floor you wish to cool will quickly aerate the property. Heat rises, so opening your roof lantern windows will help instantly.

However, if you have a roof lantern, you will notice that your rooms are automatically cooler in the summer. This is because of the natural temperature control of the product. Our timber and aluminium, solar glazed skylights are designed to keep your desired room at optimum temperature, extracting any heat and drawing it upwards.

Letting in Light

There is nothing like a bright and welcoming room in the summer. Natural light is a powerful tool. It not only opens up a space instantly, whoever steps into it will be greeted by a blast of nature, resulting in a relaxed demeanour and at the very least, a smile! Natural light helps the room to feel bigger and also results in you saving on energy bills in the summer months! Roof lanterns are a fantastic way to easily fill your chosen space with light. Sunshine will be able to flood in from above and cascade over your living space each day this summer.

Summer Décor

Aside from a light and breezy atmosphere, summer décor is what can really enable you to refresh your home ready for the warmer months. Here are some of our favourite summer decorating tips to transform your house, without breaking the bank!

Open Plan Living

Open plan living accommodates the modern lifestyle, allowing us to move freely around the home, have designated clear zones for various activities like working, eating, exercising and of course, hosting summer parties! An open and airy setting means that socialising in your home will become much easier; families can spend more quality time together and you can easily keep up conversations with friends whilst hosting the monthly get together!

Neutral with A Hint of Sage

The spacious Scandinavian neutral trend is a simple way to open up your space! However, this year, a splash of green is in! It’s the standout colour in home trends for Summer 2022, with a fresh and revitalising impact on interiors. Sage, olive and eucalyptus tones are proving to be the most inspirational colour shades this year.

Green means calm and comfort and also symbolises nature. Over the past couple of years, these are emotions we’ve come to rely on, so having this colour palette within the home will be highly beneficial to the overall aesthetic of your home, but also, your mental health too.

Fresh Flowers and Scented Candles

Sometimes, It’s the little things that can make the most difference. In your roof lantern room, place a few summery scented candles within the space. Candles that use essential oils mean that they will smell strong, even when they’re not lit. For a more consistent blast of fragrance that’s also aesthetically pleasing, reed diffusers will also work a treat.

For something a little more seasonal, fresh flowers look beautiful and smell wonderful, ensuring that any room is welcoming. You can pick up reasonably priced bunches from your local supermarket. When they’re past their best, why not dry them out and make a few dried displays?

Garden Essentials

A cosy feel outside is just as important as the comfort inside. With the introduction of softer outdoor-use upholstery, lighting, accessories and even fire pits, people are applying the same interest in the design of their homes to the design of their gardens. Planning on having a few garden parties this year? Your local garden centre will sell beautiful lanterns, outdoor mirrors, vibrant cushions and lightweight throws to accompany your garden furniture. 

Get in Touch

If you’re thinking about adding one of our bespoke roof lanterns to your property for the ultimate refresh this Summer, we’d love to hear from you! Get in touch with the Aliwood team here, or call 01245 967107.