Homes should feel inviting, and a lack of natural light can make them feel unwelcoming and downright depressing! In fact, a dark home can dim the mood of all who enter it.
Fill your house with sunlight and brighten your mood! New replacement windows increase your property’s value and the well-being of everyone who enters it. Here’s why.
Why Should You Create a Brighter Home?
With all the remote work people are doing these days, many find themselves at home more than usual. And if your space is dimly lit by sunlight due to old windows or not enough windows at all, it can affect you!
So if you are wondering, “How can I get more daylight in my home?” replacing your old windows may just be your answer! Why? Because when you increase the amount of natural light in your home, you’ll immediately enhance your lifestyle, mood, and productivity. You’ll also boost your home’s value.
Benefits of Making a Brighter Home with New Windows
1. Boost your mood
The more natural light in your home, the better your mood and the healthier you’ll feel. The warmth of an abundance of sunlight in your dwelling can keep depression at bay during the winter.
Due to a lack of sunlight during the winter months, about 6% of the population kicks off a time of serious depression called Seasonal Affective Disorder, and another 14% suffer less intense winter blues. Replacement windows can help remedy these statistics! Natural light is a more calming type of light to use in your home.
2. Improve your health
A lack of sunlight in a workplace or at home can become a mental health burden. Most of us crave more sunlight. There’s something about the way we respond to it that makes us want more of it—particularly at home where we unwind from the day and enjoy life.
Natural light helps maintain the proper flow of your circadian rhythm, which helps sleep patterns. When you are exposed to daylight first thing in the morning, you’ll sleep better at night. You will fall asleep faster, and sleep through the night without waking up as much.
Increase your quality of sleep.
Light during the day impacts sleep quality at night. In fact, the more natural light exposure you get daily, the better you sleep each night.
Decreases risks of fluorescent light exposure.
For some people, exposure to fluorescent light increases their stress response. If compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) are your main light source throughout the day, your risk of migraines and eye strain increases.
3. Increase your home’s value
Light, bright home interiors are trending—and for good reason. Natural light lifts the atmosphere of your house, and gives it an open feel. Installing replacement windows that fill your space with natural light increases its value, making it more attractive to buyers.
Sunshine makes your space look bigger and more inviting. And new windows offer a high return on investment (ROI), creating a win-win situation when it comes time to sell your property.
4. Enjoy energy savings
In the U.S. artificial light makes up almost 15% of all electricity use. The more natural light you have teeming through your windows, the less you need to turn on artificial sources—saving you energy usage every single day! And every time you rely on it rather than flipping on a light switch, you save on electricity.
5. Increase your productivity
Happier people are more productive, and natural light increases mood and therefore ramps up your productivity. Adding replacement windows can increase daylight inside, and consequently assist you in tackling your daily “to do” list with greater resolve.
6. Bring the Outdoors Inside
Filling your home with new windows allows the sun’s brightness into your space, adding vibrancy and life to every day. Picture windows particularly brighten a space—giving you more natural light inside throughout every season of the year.
7. Maximize Curb Appeal
New windows don’t just keep your air conditioning inside each summer and your heat inside each winter. They make your house look more attractive from the outside! When you create eye-catching curb appeal with new windows, your home value will soar, and you’ll reap the benefits. Not only that, but you’ll enjoy coming home each and every day to a beautiful abode!
Imagine the Transformation Replacement Windows Will Bring to Your Life
Windows allow us to enjoy as much natural light as possible throughout the year while being indoors. Now that you know the benefits of sunlight, it’s easy to see that you can never have too many windows.
At Kelly Window & Door, we offer premium Sunrise Windows and Restorations windows, and we install them with precision.
Take a moment to see a real life story of how windows helped transform a home.