Homes With Skylights
Posted By LaurenLast night I was lying awake in bed in my basement apartment thinking about skylights. I grew up in Maryland, moved once, and we had a skylight in both houses. From birth to age 5, I would lie watching the clouds below the skylight in my first home, a large plastic bubble on top of my box-like house. The bubble leaked a lot in the rain, but we loved it anyway. My parents built a larger house and designed it to have a line of smaller skylights across a slanted roof. You couldn’t see the clouds as well in the smaller windows, but at night you could see the tops of trees against moonlight and stars. In the winter snow would collect on the transparent surface like downy feathers.
On the East Coast, a lot of my friends’ houses had skylights. Two of my friends had skylights in their bathrooms. It was great because you could shower in sunlight, but became a bit horrifying when someone was doing work on the roof.
To my memory, I cannot think of a house in Portland that has a skylight. I love skylights because they let in so much natural light, but why isn’t it a fashion in Portland? Is it because in the winter there is no natural light and we’d like to be reminded as less as possible, thank-you-very-much? Is it structurally impractical because the rain would collect on top of the window? If so, why are there no slanted skylights such as the ones in my second house? I’m guessing it is because a lot of Portland houses are very old and skylights weren’t in the architecture in the early 20th century. Still, I miss them and I’m sure they would be a joy in the warm, sunny summertime.
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