We put in a skylight in the kitchen this week. Actually, a big dude who looked like a Mexican rapper (and turned out to be a part time DJ) put the skylight in. Since our house is over 50 years old, it doesn't have much of that fancy, newfangled feature in modern homes, called sunlight. We have exactly one window per room. It doesn't matter if the room has two exterior walls. It will only have one window, caked in calcium, per room. Here are some pictures of the skylight installation. The new skylight helps SO much in terms of brightening up the kitchen. We're considering more or possible solar tunnels which have helped some of our neighbours a lot too.
1. This is the ceiling in the kitchen before the skylight. There's a giant fluorescent blob for a light there.
2. After the light was taken out and the first holes were made into the ceiling
3. Exposing the first attic beam
4. The messy kitchen after the drywall and roof were cut
5. The wood frame for the skylight which has to go all the way up to the slanted roof
6. The radio the skylight guy listened to
7. The actual skylight before installation
8. The skylight being put into place from the roof
9. The skylight from the roof of the house
10. The view from below after the frame was drywalled
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