Bring Natural Light Into Your
Home’s Darkest Spaces With Solatube
For more than 30 years, Solatube International has viewed daylight as a practical part of everyday living. Our mission has always been to make natural light more accessible indoors, especially in the spaces that need it most. Unfortunately for many homes, some of the most-used areas receive the least natural light. Interior bathrooms, hallways, closets, and laundry rooms often depend on electric lighting, even in the middle of the day.
Solatube tubular skylights help change that. By capturing daylight at the roof, transferring it through reflective tubing, and distributing it through a ceiling fixture, they bring natural light into rooms where windows or traditional skylights may be less practical.
Today, we continue that mission through optical innovation, the Brighten Up® Skylight Series, and teaming up with Howie Mandel to help homeowners discover how natural daylight can transform the spaces they use every day.
What Is a Solatube Tubular Skylight?
A Solatube tubular skylight is an engineered system that delivers natural daylight from the roof into an interior space. Instead of a large roof window, it uses reflective tubing to carry light to a ceiling fixture, offering another way to brighten rooms located away from exterior walls.
The light comes from outdoors, connecting your interior to changing daylight conditions throughout the day.
How Do Solatube Daylighting Systems Work?
Solatube systems deliver daylight through three steps:
- Capture: A rooftop dome collects daylight, while optical technologies help redirect available sunlight into the system.
- Transfer: Highly reflective tubing carries the light through the roof space. Adjustable sections can help accommodate changes in direction and common obstructions.
- Deliver: A ceiling diffuser or decorative fixture distributes natural light into the room.
Together, these components create a practical path for daylight to reach farther into your home. A professional assessment helps determine the best installation approach based on roof access, the tubing route, and the room’s layout.
Which Rooms Can Benefit From Tubular Skylights?
Start with the spaces where you regularly turn on electric lights during daylight hours. You may find opportunities throughout your home:
Hallways and Entryways
Interior passageways can feel dim even when adjacent rooms have windows. Daylighting can create a brighter, more welcoming connection between spaces.
Bathrooms
Bathrooms located away from exterior walls may have little access to daylight. A tubular skylight can introduce natural light from above.
Closets and Laundry Rooms
These functional spaces are easy to overlook during home improvements, but natural daylight can make them more inviting.
Kitchens and Family Rooms
Even larger rooms with windows can have underlit areas. Tubular skylights can supplement the daylight already reaching the space.
The right system depends on the room’s size, ceiling height, installation conditions, and desired daylight coverage. A Solatube daylighting professional can help evaluate those details and recommend an option suited to your space.
Explore the Solatube Brighten Up® Skylight Series
Once you’ve identified where you want more daylight, you can consider how it will look in your home. The Solatube® Brighten Up® Skylight Series combines advanced optical engineering with decorative fixtures that complement your interior.
Two fixture collections offer distinct design choices:
- ThinLine™ Collection: A subtle, low-profile option for homeowners who prefer a fixture that blends into the ceiling.
- Contour™ Collection: A sculptural option that gives the ceiling fixture a more expressive architectural presence.
Whether you prefer understated simplicity or a design statement, these collections make daylight delivery part of your décor.
Want to find your home’s bright match? Take our quick quiz to discover the Solatube skylight design that suits your style, space, and daylighting needs: Which Solatube Skylight Fixture Collection Is Right for Your Home?
What Makes Solatube Daylighting Different?
Great daylighting starts with capturing sunlight, but it doesn’t end there. How that light travels into your home, spreads through a room, and affects indoor comfort matters, too. Solatube brings these considerations together through thoughtful optical engineering.
Optical Technology for Daylight Capture and Transfer
Our proprietary optical technologies capture available daylight and guide it through highly reflective tubing, helping natural light reach interior spaces beyond rooms with direct window access.
Balanced, Glare-Controlled Light
Once daylight reaches the room, the ceiling fixture distributes it for visual comfort, creating balanced illumination that complements the space.
Reduced UV Transmission
Our advanced optical technologies help reduce UV transmission, helping protect furnishings, flooring, and finishes from fading over time.
Thermal Performance
Solatube tubular skylights are engineered to help minimize heat gain and heat loss, bringing natural light indoors with thermal comfort in mind.
From rooftop capture to delivery inside your home, each element supports the same goal: daylighting that balances appearance, comfort, and practical performance.
A Brighter Perspective With Howie Mandel
Howie Mandel joins Solatube in putting natural daylight in the spotlight, inviting homeowners to see their spaces in a new light. After all, even a beautiful home can have rooms that feel dark or enclosed, despite thoughtful design and plenty of electric lighting.
But there’s a difference between simply lighting a room and bringing natural daylight indoors. As Howie puts it,
“This is not just great lighting. This is natural daylighting.”
That’s what Solatube tubular skylights are designed to deliver. By bringing daylight into spaces that might otherwise rely on electric lighting, they let homeowners experience familiar rooms differently. And making that change doesn’t necessarily require a major renovation. Most Solatube tubular skylights can be installed in just a few hours, so you can brighten overlooked spaces without an extensive remodeling project.
So, think about the room where you reach for the light switch every morning. It may be a hallway, bathroom, closet, or a darker part of your kitchen. Now imagine getting ready, preparing breakfast, or moving through your home with natural daylight brightening the way.
Because with Solatube, the modern skylight, even the most overlooked spaces can become brighter, more welcoming parts of everyday life.
Ready to discover what more natural light could bring to your home?
Take the first step toward a brighter space. Visit Solatube.com to find a Solatube Premier Dealer near you.
