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In wooden housing construction, houses with second light have long become popular.
In houses with second light in one or more rooms (most often in the living room or dining room) interfloor ceilings are not installed. Thus, the space between the first and second in these rooms becomes unified.
Natural light enters the rooms with second light through the windows of the first and second floors, creating, as it were, double lighting. The room becomes even more spacious and light. Often the windows of the first and second floors are combined, and you get one general glazing on two floors. This gives the facade of the house with a second light style and presence, and the room - solemnity and presentability. High ceilings allow you to hang luxurious chandeliers and lamps, to embody various design solutions, which are not possible to decorate rooms with standard height ceilings.
The effect of second light is also present when the ceiling is hemmed along the rafters, and not parallel to the floor.

Advantages and disadvantages of houses with second light

Houses with second light have two significant advantages:

1. 1. Due to the absence of ceilings, rooms with second light look larger and freer, and the footage of the entire house seems larger. All this adds solidity and solidity to houses with second light.
2. 2. Additional natural light has a beneficial effect on emotional condition and the health of the owners of the house with second light, and, to some extent, allows you to save energy.

The disadvantages include the following facts:

1. 1. The second light organization takes a part usable area Houses. Therefore, when designing, you should initially provide for the number and size of premises necessary for the comfortable living of all family members.
2. 2. As is known, warm air rises up. Therefore, in rooms with second light, the organization of modern effective systems heating, contributing to savings in the operation of the house.

Construction of houses with second light in North Forest

Architects of the North Forest company in projects wooden houses with the second light, all details are taken into account, the layouts are carefully thought out, which ensures comfortable living in such a house.
If, instead of a second light, you want to equip an additional bedroom, office or dressing room on the second floor, we will rework the project in accordance with your wishes. And if you like a standard project in which the second light is closed, in most cases it is permissible to arrange it. We make these changes at no additional charge.

The most popular among our customers is a house project with a second light and

If you have long dreamed of a huge amount of free space in your own home, then it’s time to make your dreams come true by choosing log house designs with a second light provided.

What is it? The second light is a special architectural technique - the absence beam floors between floors. This is how the feeling of spaciousness and lightness of the interior is achieved, because the ceilings of this part of the house are located at the level of the second floor.

The use of second light in the layout of the house allows you to:

• visually expand the space and make the interior more impressive;
• use natural light from the street more effectively (especially when installing large windows);
• use stained glass window groups, complementing the facade and interior of the home.

However, the most important thing is that designs of houses with second light are able to provide residents with maximum comfort and a feeling of closeness to nature.

"MARISRUB": we use every square meter wisely

Still doubt your desire to build a wooden house with second light? In this case, Marisrub specialists will be able to help by providing detailed advice on all unclear issues. They will talk about the advantages and possible problems related to the operation of second-light housing, and will also offer options for solving potential difficulties.

All finished projects, presented in our catalog, were created by specialists in the field of architecture and are guaranteed to be reliable and designed so carefully that you will not find a single flaw in the layout even after many years of living in an already constructed building.

In the list of proposals you can find not only big houses over 200 sq.m., but also medium options in the range of 100-200 sq.m. In such projects everyone square meter used so rationally that you cannot say that the provided second light “eats up” too much space. On the contrary, it will look so natural and harmonious that it will be difficult for you to imagine the layout any other way.

There is no reason to doubt, because the second light in the capable hands of Marisrub designers will be your best investment in personal comfort.

In the construction of modern housing, “second light” is often used - an original architectural technique that gives an increase natural light due to the absence of part of the ceiling and interfloor ceilings. In the Domamo catalog you can view the most interesting ready-made designs of houses with second light according to a number of characteristics, layout and photos, as well as order an individual design.

Advantages of second light

Houses with a second light look European, reminiscent of the palace decoration of ballrooms, luxurious living rooms and large libraries, which are freely visible from the stairs and galleries of the upper floor. The windows can be made high and with panoramic glazing, giving the cottage a stylish appearance. Such projects provide several advantages:

• Visual space and free air circulation,
• Maximum lighting, allowing you to decorate the room with light-loving house plants,
• Facade aesthetics with the possibility of arrangement original windows and stained glass.

In addition, the construction of houses with additional light structures allows you to save on daylighting of internal stairs, balustrades, and winter gardens.

Features of projects

A house with a second light is quite complex to design, so the participation of specialists is required to accurately calculate all the subtleties and nuances. When ordering a project, you should consider that:

• Rooms with similar architectural feature not practical in a small house.
• The heating price will be slightly higher than for standard-storey cottages. To eliminate heat loss, it is necessary here better thermal insulation roofing, installation of a fireplace or " heated floors", making the home not only warm, but also cozy.

Projects of houses with a “second light”, implemented in a wide range architectural options And various materials for the construction of private low-rise housing, they are especially loved and popular among customers of such real estate.

The second light, the projects of log houses with which are also presented in the catalog of the MariMagnat company, is a special architectural technique.

Its specificity lies in the removal of part of the floors between one or several floors, as a result of which the house acquires a number of advantages.

Projects of cottages with a second light: advantages and disadvantages

Projects of cottages with a second light offer their owner the following benefits:

• due to the lack of overlap, the room becomes more spacious (allowing, for example, to place winter Garden with tall ornamental trees);
• in the room where the second light is made, the intensity of natural light increases. The latter advantage can be emphasized and enhanced by increasing the glazing area. Moreover, the second light is usually brought out on the side that is exposed to increased insolation;
• increasing the presentability and aesthetics of the room by obtaining high ceilings;
• a country house with a second light provides excellent opportunity and ease of installing a fireplace.

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Homeowners who have chosen houses and cottages with second light immediately face the question of functional purpose premises with this architectural solution. As a rule, this is a living room with or without a fireplace, a winter garden with appropriate landscaping, and extremely rarely an empty hall with a staircase and multi-level lighting.

But with all these advantages that are characteristic of this architectural technique, it is not a panacea for improving the appearance of any private home. In addition to many advantages, second light also has certain disadvantages, including:

• the obvious loss of usable area, which was provided to the upper floor by the part of the ceiling removed during the implementation of the second light;
• additional heat loss, since the room is high ceilings more difficult to heat;
• certain technological difficulties if the second light is performed in wooden house from a log.

Speaking of cottage projects with the second light, one cannot help but note the increased acoustics of such a room. This factor cannot be unambiguously attributed to either the strengths or the disadvantages of the second world - it all depends on what functional room is on the first floor and what kind of rooms are adjacent to this “loud corner” of the log house. So, if there is live music (piano or guitar) in the living room, then log houses with a second light will provide it with improved sound. If there is a TV on in the living room, its sounds will be very audible in the rooms on the second or attic floor.

Log cottage with second light: a task for the pros

A log cottage with a second light, in comparison with fire monitor structures or houses made of timber, requires additional measures to enhance the rigidity of the structure. Moreover, such work has a number of its own nuances that are unknown to self-taught builders. Therefore, projects of houses and cottages with a second light from rounded or chopped logs must be implemented by real professionals who work with this building material day after day and thoroughly know its specifics. It is for this reason that projects of houses with a second light - from development to turnkey construction - should be entrusted to the specialists of our company, who have the relevant specialists and experience in this field.

If you are interested in projects of wooden houses with a second light, we recommend that you not only familiarize yourself with the catalog of our standard projects. Projects of wooden houses with a second light are quite few in number compared to standard projects wooden cottages with a classic layout, so you should contact our managers about ordering individual project such a log house.