I am a sucker for a bright and cheerful space. Sunlight indoors is key to my happiness. In my little cottage in the Hollywood Hills pretty much the entire front of my house is windows – making my way too small house appear happy and light.
A sunny eat in kitchen is essential to me. The place where you cook and dine should have a bit of sunlight…some connection nature and with the outdoors.
Hence this post and these very airy kitchens and dining spaces featuring wonderful skylights. Oh…let there be light…in the form of a skylight…why not? I love the idea of being inside, looking up and seeing not a ceiling but the sky! A window looking up…metaphorically optimistic…practically speaking bringing the outdoors in…love it!
I found these eat-in kitchen spaces with skylights…but if thee is one room in your house that could use a skylight, which room would that be? What do you think of a skylight illuminating your eating area?
Happy Monday!
xo
Coco
P.S. Thank you bloggers for the nice COCOCOZY online shop launch mentions! I will be doing a post later this week thanking all of you who mentioned the COCOCOZY Spring/Summer 2011 home furnishings collection and opening of the store. If you mention, the COCOCOZY collection launch on your blog and let me know by 1/28/11…I’ll include a link to your blog in the thank you post too!
Photos: Natasha Baradaran; Maria de la Osa; 1st-Option
I love my kitchen to have natural light and also the bathroom!!
I have to have lots of light in my home. I am really pretty luck in that respect. I have a East/West exposure and the sun rises in the front of my home which is the living area. I don’t even have window coverings except where the afternoon sun comes in . I have to have light. Not sure about an skylight only because it would get dirty and that would drive me crazy not beign able to get up there and clean it. Love all of your images, Kathysue
I always love the images you post. Your blog was the first one that I started following- Cococozy is a household name here in Syracuse, NY! You inspired me to start my own blog (I just launched it last week) and I absolutely will mention the Cococozy launch (even though I only have about twenty followers)!
I am not a huge fan of white kitchens, kitchens with no uppers (where do you stash the stuff?) but these are ALL fabulous. Putting a hole in the ceiling for a skylight would only open it up to my bedroom, unfortunately!
Yessss, very nice…. I love these shades of white. And this eat-in kitchen with skylights – great choice.
where is the table in the 3rd photo from?
I can almost feel the sunshine in these images…fabulous examples!!
Loving your blog! I just started my own blog with my fantastic crystal and shell bottle art. I’d love it if you could stop by, and if you like them, follow! 🙂 Off to read more! xoxo, The Crystal Crate.
I love natural light in a room, and I love a white kitchen–so crisp and clean looking. I’m thinking of going this route soon. I have a skylight in my master bathroom & love it!
Karen T.
I totally agree. I love lots of windows and a bright open home. Although a dark and moody den or bedroom is always fun too. Great photos!
I appreciate skylights and understand that in the right climate they can work. But for me, living outside Chicago and having a husband who is a roofing contractor, I will never have one. You would not believe how many leaks and mistakes from other contractors my husband is called out to fix. Just not conducive to our climate. However, we can pull off snowmen and winter holiday decor like nobody else! lol
Leaving in Seattle where clouds and rain are our daily companion for 6 straight months, skylights are the first thing I had installed in our house and some of my clients still thank me for getting them to do the same. Light is LIFE!!!
I especially loved the first kitchen with its abundance of light! Great post!
I would love to have a skylight in my kitchen, I looove light when I cook, but the location of it in my home doesn’t allow for this. I do, however have 2 in my sunroom, and I love them! The sun is always inspiring and cheerful, so I always try hard any way I can to let natural light in my home. Love your Blog Coco!!, I don’t miss a post! ^_^
Meli
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Loving all these beautiful light filled spaces. And I’m in love with the cement tiles in the second shot – I need to find somewhere to use those!!
I absolutely adore the first kitchen…so light and airy I would actually want to cook in it!!
Love the skylights! Or I guess one could use Solatubes with similar success. But the skylights are definitely more architectural…lovely!
Nancy
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