Embrace the power of light

(NC)—Natural light can make one of the biggest impacts in a room and is available at a fraction of the cost of other powerful room accents – in fact, it's free. While the addition of natural light is a positive element, there is often the challenge of not only bringing daylight into the home, but controlling it so that it is put to best use and does not result in glare, heat gain, UV damage to furnishings and lost energy savings opportunities.

Sue Rainville, director of marketing for Hunter Douglas, Canada's leading manufacturer of custom window fashions, offers the following tips on how to best harvest natural light in your home:

The Right Amount
Proper harvesting of light involves enhancing and controlling the light a room receives at different times of day. Select window fashions like Silhouette window shadings with sheer fabric and layers that diffuse sunlight as it enters a room to create a softened lighting effect across the space. Silhouette shadings also have fabric vanes that allow you to direct the light to the walls and ceilings to help it penetrate deeper into the room.

The Power of Combination
Integrate natural light with other systems in your home – including media, security and electric lighting systems – for maximized energy-savings potential.

Rising Above
Daylight should enter the space from as high a point as possible. Products with the top-down/bottom-up design from Hunter Douglas have the option of opening from the top and stacking at the bottom, thus allowing light to stream into a room from the top of the window, effectively lighting the room without electricity. This option is available on Duette honeycomb shades, Silhouette window shadings, Vignette Modern Roman Shades and other Hunter Douglas offerings.

Dim Light
Use dimmers on electric lights to maximize natural light illumination and reduce the use of artificial light. Additionally use insulating window fashions that can cut cooling costs by shading rooms from the hot noonday sun.

More information is available online at www.hunterdouglas.ca or toll-free at 1-800-265-8000.

Source: www.newscanada.com
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