Is there some way I can direct sunlight in to my apartment?

Question

My apartment does not get enough sunlight.... A little in the morning and a little in the afternoon and that's it. I hate this. Is there some device I can use to direct sunlight in?

Answer 1

If you're worried about your plants dieing or pets not getting enough light you can buy some fluorescent light fixtures and buy the natural sunlight tubes.  They are supposed to produce the full spectrum of light that you get from the sun and are ideal for keeping fish, reptiles, plants and other things which require sunlight happy and flourishing even without the real thing.

I know from second hand experience that they will keep plants alive even if they're grown in a closet...not saying why someone I know was growing plants in a closet but the lights kept them quite healthy.  You can get the fixtures and the lights from most any hardware store (I think even Wal-Mart carries them)

Answer 2

definitely!  i remember when i was a kid.  we had a show called "flash gordon."  flash had such a device.

it looks like a little flashlight, but the bulb casts light widely, so that the concentrated light is made broad.  

his nemesis, the great ming, was constantly trying to destroy the solar system.  but flash always came to the rescue in his spaceship.  he could read ming's mind, you see.

what he'd do is this.  he'd hold this special light-gathering flashlight (isn't it cool that his name was flash gordon and he had a flashlight?), butt faced towards the sun.  then, he'd capture a solar flare in it and point it at ming.  

ming would get knocked down from the power of the solar flare.  this happened all the time, so that's why ming hated flash so much.  flash did it so often that it interfered with the current schema that ming had in his mind to destroy the solar system.

since ming always thought up different plans on how he would destroy the solar system, in order to suck up all the water on mars for his own planet--far away in another galaxy--he would send his minions to do kung fu fighting on flash gordon, but flash would take off like a flash, so no one ever got hurt.

ming was foiled so many times that the TV station shut down.  but my brother, who directs movies in hollywood, told me long ago that flash's special solar-flare gathering flashlights are locked up in a safe in a certain studio.  

if you can figure out how to crack the safe, you can steal them for yourself.  that way, your plants will grow much better, and your attitude will become calmer and more serene.

Answer 3

A mirror

Answer 4

You can install a tubular skylight, but I don't think your landlord would like it - especially if you don't live on the top floor  ;-)

Other than that, either use a mirror or find a south-facing apartment.