If you have a skylight lantern in your home, lucky you! They’re a great feature for any home to let light flood into a space from different angles. They can also make a room feel larger and provide different perspectives and views.
You might wonder why you would bother to cover them up. Won’t skylight lantern blinds just be difficult to operate? Surely they defeat the whole object of a skylight?
We’ve put together a few reasons why skylight lantern blinds are an extremely beneficial addition to your home.
Reduce Heat Loss By Up To 55%
Any window in any property will be a weak point when it comes to heat loss. Whether a traditional window or a skylight, these are the areas where it is easiest for heat to escape from your home. Glass is a very poor conductor of heat, that combined with the fact that hot air rises means that having glass at any part of your roof makes a colder space in winter.
Custom skylight lantern blinds can stop this. A skylight lantern blind will form a barrier between the room and the glass. This protective cover manually prevents hot air from coming into contact with the cold surface. This, in turn, reduces the amount of heat lost.
So if you have a skylight lantern and you want to ensure your home stays nice and cosy in the winter months and that you’re not throwing away money on your heating bills, skylight lantern blinds are the answer.
Stay Cool In Summer
Skylight lantern blinds are not only effective at reducing heat loss they are also great at regulating the temperature in the hot summer months.
We all love to have a good moan about the cold British weather, but let’s face it – the last few summers have been pretty damn hot! At some times, unbearably so. The CCC released a 2022 study showing that an unshaded London flat in September can reach 47.5 degrees (same as Death Valley!). That is just too hot.
Skylight lanterns are designed to draw in as much light as possible, and in the summer months, this sunlight also means heat. Fitting skylight lantern blinds can help you regulate this. Pulling your blinds closed during the warmest hours of the day in the summer months will prevent heat build-up. And opening them during the coolest hours, such as the evenings, will help let out any residual heat and keep the room cool.
This can be particularly important if you have an attic bedroom with a skylight. In the summer months, these can become unbearable to sleep in. But blinds will help reduce convection through the windows and keep your bedroom at a more comfortable temperature.
Reduce Glare
As we’ve discussed, roof lanterns are great for letting in light from many different angles and brightening a room. But there will be times when you don’t want your room to be as bright as possible.
In the summer months, you probably use sunglasses outside to prevent your eyes from straining, but you wouldn’t generally expect to be doing the same in your own home. If there is too much light flooding into your room in the summer months, the glare from the sun may cause you to strain your eyes. And prolonged squinting can even bring on headaches.
This can be particularly difficult if you’re trying to work from home or watch TV, with the glare from the screen making it difficult to see.
With sky lantern blinds, you can control the light entering the room. With as much or as little as you feel comfortable with. And you don’t have to block all the light out and sit in the dark with your lights on! There are many different materials you can choose which will allow different levels of light to filter through.
Prevent UV Damage
The sun’s UV rays are also not great for your home furnishings. They can bleach the colour of your furniture and damage floors and carpets. Not ideal. You may find that that gorgeous vibrant turquoise sofa you’ve always dreamed of for your newly brightened, indoor/outdoor living space is zapped of all its colour in just one summer.
By forming a barrier between the sun’s rays and your living space and its furniture, you can prevent damage caused in the daytime and keep your interiors looking great.
Easy To Motorise
You may be thinking ‘That’s all very well, but I bet they’re a faff to use’. We’ve all had trouble using blinds before, trying to find the right technique to get them up or down without jarring the mechanism and getting them tangled up. The last thing you want is to be doing that whilst standing on your tiptoes on the top of a ladder trying to reach the skylight.
Luckily, this is not a position you will find yourself in with the skylight lantern blinds we have on offer here at Just Blinds. Our skylight lantern blinds can be either battery or mains powered and are operated by remote control. All you need to do is touch a button to have complete control over the blinds and what position you want them in.
As our blinds are custom-made, they can be designed to fit your skylight perfectly and the blind tucks away fully out of site when not in use.
Stylish Designs To Boot
Not only do skylight lantern blinds help regulate the temperature and light in your home, but they can also prevent damage to your interior and are super easy to use. On top of that, if you’re purchasing them from us here at Just Blinds, you will find a wide range of colours and fabrics to choose from, so you can really enhance your interior and make an already beautiful feature even more stylish.
You can check out the range of skylight lantern blinds we have on offer at Just Blinds here…
