Why do we need to bring more daylight to our home and how to do it?

Using glass walls for home and office to add more daylight to the space has been growing quickly these days, even though their installation and maintenance costs tend to be higher than concrete and brick walls. However, it is important to ensure our living and working environment has sufficient daylight and using glass walls is one of the solutions. Then why do we choose to bring more daylight to our home that much and how to do it besides using glass walls? Let’s figure out in this post.

We need to bring more daylight to our home

Daylight gives us more energy and a better sleep

Humans have been living under the daylight millions of years ago. Our body’s circadian rhythm somehow matches nature's clock. We wake up and work during the day under the sunlight and sleep after the sunset. From a scientific perspective, without daylight, our brain produces melatonin, the hormone makes us feel tired and sleepy. And during the day, it inhibits the melatonin’s secretion, giving us more energy for all activities. 

Daylight increases happiness while reduces stress and anxiety

Nowadays, with the exception of some specialized occupations, most of us spend 90 percent of our time indoors with artificial light. Therefore, people try to bring more daylight to their house and even their working places. Daylight increases happiness by causing our brain to produce serotonin (the key hormone that makes us feel happy) and endorphin (the hormone that helps relieve stress and anxiety). When we’re in such a good mood, we can easily focus and our work becomes more productive. 

Bring more daylight to our home improves vision and our immune system

Our skin, when exposed to the sunshine, makes vitamin D from cholesterol. And vitamin D helps improve our immune system by waking up the T-cells, which fight against strange pathogens.

Moreover, daylight is good for our eyesight. Many researches have shown that children whose eyes are exposed to daylight more reduce their risk of having myopia. It’s because the higher blue light in the artificial light’s spectrum, compared to the sunlight’s spectrum, damages our eyes’ retina.

Ways to bring more daylight to our home

More glass windows and glass walls are ways to bring more daylight to our home.

The best way to bring more daylight to our home is building it with more windows and glass walls. Daylight can easily get in our home through the glass. Besides, the glass wall and windows also give us a better view and expand our living space, bringing it closer to nature.

Artificial lights, such as Sunlike LEDs or smart light changing colour temperature like the sun, may be a way to get more daylight in

If the house is a closed space, surrounded by concrete and brick walls, the solution should be installing artificial light with sunlike functions. It could be the light using Sunlike LEDs, which mimics the sunlight’s spectrum, or smart light which can change the colour temperature and the light intensity like the sun during the day.

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