A skylight used to be a roofing job. It is becoming an electrician's.
Govee has introduced a ceiling fixture designed to sit up inside the ceiling rather than below it, so the light appears to fall from farther away, the way daylight does down a shaft. According to Govee, it delivers up to 7,000 lumens across a range from deep amber to bluish noon white, and includes a sky-blue wavelength meant to keep people alert in rooms the sun never reaches. It lists at about $400. A windowless basement or an interior office can be made to feel like it has weather overhead.
Fixtures in this class can shift brightness from cool and bright during working hours to warmer and lower toward evening.
Rick Good spent ten years in the newspaper business, including with The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) and The Greenville News (Greenville, SC). He co-wrote, with Melinda Coleman, Rutledge to Riley: Governors of South Carolina, 1776–Present (Published by The Greenville News), and is the author of Mind Games Trivia #1 (Amazon). He has recently spent 15 years creating original trivia content through Sounds Good Mobile Entertainment and continues that with his new company, SGME Software. He edits The Smart Reader’s money, real estate, and business coverage.