Skylight

As we framed our house project I came to the conclusion that the main living area was poorly lit. We decided that it needed a skylight.

At that stage, the trusses were already made and installed. I didn't want to modify them, and I didn't want something that was too obviously a 2' wide slot in the ceiling. The initial sketches looked like this:

We have to throw some curves in...

There are two skylights above. One for morning light, one for afternoon. The sunlight almost never directly hits the floor below, but bounces on the back wall of the skylight, creating nice, soft light in the dining room.

Guy spent a week framing the backing, I spent a week on the boarding, and the guy who did the taping and mudding said it was the hardest skylight he had ever done.

Design indecisions...

The wood is black locust, from some logs given to us by a customer.

Here you can clearly see the truss members. Most people who see it suggest that we could install opaque panels to hide them. I don't know. I think they look kind of neat.