Let more light into your home without adding extra windows

Brighten up your home without installing a new window. Kya deLongchamps has illuminating tricks

Trimming back trees and shrubs could transform the quality and quantity of light coming through your windows. File picture

We all have rooms that, because of their aspect, window sizes, low ceilings or the overshadowing of obstacles outside the window, are regarded as our darker rooms. 

Before you even consider artificial solutions, finesse what natural light is reaching these areas, both from outdoors and from adjoining spaces. Space is space — that’s real metres and centimetres rather than acres of aesthetically realised “spaciousness”.