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Pat, we installed a skylight in our 10x20' bedroom when we added on to our house many years ago, and recently we explored ways of shutting out that light. Special shades which would be opaque were about $600, which seemed ridiculous to me, and instead we simply cut a piece of wood to size and affixed it to the bedroom ceiling section of the skylight frame with mirror fasteners. The room is a lot cooler and more pleasant that way in the summer, and I don't miss the extra light in the winter - although we could remove the wood if we chose. Because of this experience I didn't include a skylight in my studio when I built it, although we do have a lot of windows facing southwest, which is the view I see when I stand at my easel. That wall is almost solid windows on the ground floor, and there are two large windows on the same wall at the next level, so that you have a view from the loft as well. They're fine, but I think a skylight would have been too much.
I think a skylight would be too much for a 10x12' room, too. But that's just based on our experience.
Leslie
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