Where and how to locate a rooflight in an extension to your home.

by | Apr 22, 2024 | kitchen extensions

Our dolls house process at 7designbuild interior design example. The proposals are visualised here with a 3d scan matched to new proposals for an infill extension linking the existing rear ground floor with the garage. Allowing for future phased conversion of the garage. With careful demolition internally the family area of the ground floor is transformed. This illustration shows the furniture placed for reference purposes and the client evaluation of the interior design proposals. Location of a central rooflight for maximum visual impact, stepped ceiling structure, flooding natural light into the footprint of the existing house.

How to make the most of your ceiling height when extending your home

Deciding upon a rooflight to get more natural light is a great idea – however there are some additional design options available to enhance the result

When placing a rooflight relative to an extension and the ceiling height is constrained by the existing house – we can form a coffer or raised ceiling element in the new build – which makes more of a feature of the natural light coming into the new space…

When the ceiling is relatively low – keeping the levels running through and past the extension line makes visual sense.

However adding a rooflight to the low ceiling will only add a shape of light on the ceiling – little visual impact will be available on the approach as the opening is close to your head height as you walk towards the opening.

A solution is to step and widen the physical opening – the rooflight can remain the same size – just alter the ceiling around the opening.

We can physically achieve this in various cost efficient ways workign closely with the structural engineer and the builder. For example we can create higher structure within the new extension footprint, or we can work with the existing structure above existign ceiling level.

dolls house top down plan with interior furnishings
exterior view of dolls house extension to family home
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