Wow, that first room is awesome. I wonder if it's drafty.

I agree that the first room is just really super cool.

I would LOVE to wake up to the sunlight gleaming in--except on days when I wake up with a migraine!

Yes, please!

We have skylights in our bedroom in our CT condo -- at certain times of the year, blinding light beams down upon the bed at 5:30am or so. Saturday's and Sunday's we need to catch up on our sleep -- so black out curtains are now in place! We love the skylights in all the other rooms on our condo, but for the bedroom -- proceed with caution.

Agreed! I used to have a bedroom with skylights and while it's great during the day it's annoying beyond compare when you want to sleep in, and kinda spooky during a thunderstorm. Still, with a sleeping mask, it's well worthing for the day time light!

We had this. It was great for looking at the stars at night or clouds during a storm but the minute the sun came up we had to bolt out of bed. Never again.

We went from a bedroom with no windows to an attic master with skylights. It was definitely an adjustment but I love all the natural light. We've got a baby now so the days of sleeping in are over anyway!

Number 4 is so dreamy. A simple space with an incredibly comfortable bed... *sigh*

I had a bedroom with skylights once but it was on a flightpath to an airport and sometimes they came in quite low. More than once I woke up in the middle of the night thinking I was in Close Encounters of the Third Kind

That's fine if you relish getting up as soon as the first ray of sun clears the horizon- but not for normal people who like a gin and tonic and a lie-in now and again!

The first bedroom really is gorgeous. But this is an idea better in concept than actuallity. Do you really want to be woken up by the sun shinning in your face every day? I don't think so.. once in a while sure.. not every day

I know where that first one is! I believe I contacted them about renting it- is it in Taos, NM? So cool! Love ALL of these!

My absolute favorite college apartment had skylights in every room. I loved all the natural light and I learned to sleep with the covers over my head, if needed. Very cozy.

I must in minority but I don't dream of waking up in a sunlit bedroom. First of all, my bedroom faces north. Second, get up at 6:30 am, so for almost 6 months in a year, it is still dark anyway.
I guess the skylight lovers do not need a dark room to sleep, I do.

I don't need a dark room to sleep and love a lot of light, not only in the morning, so I look forward to our next house where my bedroom faces east. The only thing that keeps me from sleeping under a skylight is the noise of rain.

This sounds like the worst to me!! I definitely need darkness to sleep, and I don't need to be woken up at 5am all summer.

Here's a problem: That first photo is great and I immediately recognized it from the excellent book "Handmade Houses: A Guide to the Woodbutcher's Art" from 1973 by Art Boericke and Barry Shapiro - so, out of curiosity, I checked to see if they were credited. Sadly for Messrs. Boericke and Shapiro, it took a lot of scrolling and 6 clicks through 4 different sites before I finally found accurate attribution on the 7th page - but not without first seeing the photo mis-attributed twice. Then, at the online source of the image (i.e., the person who scanned it onto the web), the guy who posted it in Flickr included a note that it isn't his image but even he didn't bother to name the author or photographer and instead just gave a link to a bookseller with the full info. That isn't how this is supposed to work. Indeed, that is a crap way to treat the original creators of solid content - their book is out of print so they aren't going to make any money on book sales now, but the least AT can do is say their names and credit them for spending months hiking out into the woods 40 years ago and photographing (on actual film) these great houses and documenting some amazing design so that we can enjoy it today without lifting a finger or paying a cent.

Thank you, Max. So few care about this kind of thing anymore.

We have not one, but TWo skylights in our bedroom, and the light has never kept us from getting sleep. In fact, I love waking up gradually with the light coming in :)

These are gorgeous, I did a similar project here in London. Was such a wonderful space - I am sure on a bright summers day it would be a wonderful space to wake up in! You can see it here http://www.kiadesigns.co.uk/
Would love to know what you think!

Here was our sneek peek of the before and after http://www.kiadesigns.co.uk/blog/sneak-peek-608.html
Leave us a comment of what you think!

Absolutely gorgeous! There's nothing better than waking up to natural sunlight and fresh breeze.

Wow. I want to move into #1. I don't care if the sun wakes me up if it wakes me up in there.

I lived in a house with a skylight over the bed and the nicest part was seeing the stars at night.

Max and Turkeylurk, I'm the blurry girl on the stairs in the second handmade house book.
I met my husband working there about 30 years ago.

#5 reminds me of the show "Weeds". In one of the episode's the teenage son is in bed with his girlfriend under a broken skylight. His rebuttal, "You said, not under your roof."
Be careful how the rules can be bent.

I had a skylight in the bedroom in my old house. I loved seeing the stars at night, but sleeping in on Saturday is hard to do!

That would drive me nuts. Too much light would get in at night and during the summer it would be bright way too early.

The third photo is credited to "There’s A Science to Fear" but leads to a dead link/dead blog.

Does anyone have any more information about it?