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Create a healthier bedroom for your kids

- in four simple steps!

A bright child’s room with three VELUX roof windows is decorated with pink and white tones.
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A VELUX roof window can quickly help rebalance a “toxic" indoor climate in a kids room. For one thing, they bring in twice the daylight as vertical windows, and that is a win any way you look at it. 
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A young girl sits at her desk in a bright room with two VELUX roof windows and two façade windows.
What can you do?

Both natural light and fresh air are essential to a kids’ brain, contributing to their ability to focus and to the development of their neural pathways. A 2012 French study involving over 2,000 kids across Europe found that an increased amount of daylight in a classroom improved pupils’ test results in math and logic by up to 15%.  

By following these simple steps, you can make sure your kids are living, sleeping, and playing in a healthy indoor climate all day long.

Let the daylight in 

In this era of digital entertainment, it can be difficult for kids to make space for simpler pleasures like the wonderful feeling of sunlight. But the truth is that sunshine has numerous scientifically proven benefits, balancing your kids’ body clocks and flooding their brains with serotonin, which makes them feel better and contributes to their ability to focus and learn. It also kills mould spores and toxic particles that are released from their toys and may gather in their rooms from everywhere in the house. Make sure you open the curtains in your kids room every day, so the space is filled with daylight.  

Air it out 

Indoor air includes all kinds of toxic stuff, such as gases, particles, biological waste and water vapor, which are potential health hazards. The best way to get rid of it, so your kids can breathe clean, is to air out their bedroom every single day, three to four times a day if you can, and make sure to leave more than one window open. This will circulate fresh, clean air in, and let the dirty air out. 

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Because roof windows also allow daylight to penetrate farther into the room, they can also vastly improve the sense of space in the room, brightening up every dark corner and making it feel bigger and roomier than it is.

Bright children’s room with toys on the floor and one large VELUX roof window.
Remove toxic toys

It has been shown that our kids’ toys emit toxic gasses and particles into the air they breathe. Sort through your kid’s playthings and get rid of toys with PVC and Phthalate, so you can be sure they are playing safely throughout the day. Toys that you are not sure about should be put away and boxed up at night, so any fumes them emit can be contained rather than entering the air.  

Two children play in a bright children’s room which has two VELUX roof windows.
Add a roof window

A VELUX roof window can quickly help rebalance a “toxic indoor climate” in a kids room. For one thing, they bring in twice the daylight as vertical windows, and that is a win any way you look at it. What is more important, roof windows’ out-of-reach location is safer for little ones, so parents can open and close them - even with their smartphone - without worrying that a kid might reach. That means more light and more fresh air, without any safety risks. Because roof windows also allow daylight to penetrate farther into the room, they can also vastly improve the sense of space in the room, brightening up every dark corner and making it feel bigger and roomier than it is.  

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