The HGTV® Smart Home 2021 has five skylights on its lanai, a secluded, semi-enclosed outdoor area on the back of the house. Why add skylights to an outdoor area? Well, whether it’s a lanai, a screened-in porch or a covered patio, covered outdoor spaces tend to be dark, and with their extended roofs blocking sunlight from entering the windows or sliding glass doors, the rooms just inside tend to be even darker.
Enter skylights. They bring natural light to the lanai, and in the case of the HGTV® Smart Home 2021, they can open to create natural airflow to cool the space and release heat from outdoor grilling.
Even more important for the rooms just inside the lanai, the skylights allow some of the sunlight brightening the outdoor space to spill into the home’s interior. The rooms inside are essentially borrowing light from the outdoor space.
Check out more examples of skylights providing natural light to both the outside space where they’re installed and the adjacent inside room.
Learn more about borrowed light and the benefits of adding skylights to a covered porch by downloading our porch and patio design guide.
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