We had previously thought about how good a roof lantern or glass dome would add to the beauty of the house notwithstanding the amount of natural light it would allow to flood through from the third floor right down to the hallway, but we put it to the back of our minds as we pushed to prioritise other elements of the build, like plastering, wood work and electrics.
However, this week as Dael and Liam were preparing the third floor ceiling they decided it would be better to remove the old lath and plaster ceiling and re-board with Gypsum plaster boards and skim, well, this exposed the area through the loft to the central flat roof area which then led to talk of "whilst we are doing this we might as well take the boarding right up to the roof ready for a lantern or dome". Nice idea and with a couple of days work the area could be transformed into a very high ceiling open space, so, decision made "lets do it, and whilst we are doing that we may as well take out the ugly loft access area box and make a new access area from a third floor room", mmm more than a couple of days work now I think!
I am sure this is the way to proceed by opening up spaces and providing more natural light, as I have said previously the Victorians did have a preposition for making unneccessary dimly lit areas and lots of boxing in, the one thing we wanted to achieve with this refurbishment is to improve on their designs by opening up areas where we could and utilising more natural light.
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