skylights

The house is being tuckpointed and getting new mortar right now. It looks great: like it got a shower and a haircut. The front window got its new sill. You can see the new columns lining up with the concrete supports below. Windows just got ordered, so it will be a few weeks before these openings are filled with new glass.

Inside all the window openings are covered with masonite, so the house is only lit by the skylights. These photos were all taken without a flash.

I remember Reed telling me when he looked at the house there were very few functioning lightbulbs and that it took him awhile to realize that the spaces were all lit naturally from above. The house was designed with seven skylights.

Our kids standing under the skylight in the kitchen. Poor Will is being required to stand for a photo when all he wants to do is get to the porta potty outside. Ella is plugging her nose: with the masons and the carpenters working it is pretty dusty.

There are skylights in the two adjacent bathrooms. We thought we were losing them but re-design recently salvaged them. And now that I see this, I am really, really glad.

Here is the master bathroom with its skylight.

and the master closet with its skylight.

All these photos were taken without a flash, so the only light source is the not-so-big skylights. It was quite beautiful to see how much natural light comes in from just those seven openings in the roof.