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Natasha Brinsmead

Wondering how to make a dark room brighter? Try one of these expert-approved design solutions

Three rooms showing solutions of how to make a dark room brighter using lights, skylights and glass doors.

Looking for ideas on how to make a dark room brighter? You are most definitely not alone. Spaces with plenty of natural light are a pleasure to spend time in and contribute to a sense of well-being, while dark, gloomy and badly lit rooms are the opposite.

There are lots of reasons why a room might not get much daylight. From converted basements and lofts to newly formed rooms within remodelling projects that have been created by stealing space from two existing rooms. Then there are those awkward 'middle' rooms in terraced and semi-detached houses and windowless downstairs toilets and let's not forget older homes with small windows or those shaded by tall trees – all suffer from the problem.

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