Let There Be Light

CALL IT THE ultimate terrace house challenge. As most owners of intermediate units are painfully aware of, trying to get more light into a space that's hemmed in on both sides is never an easy task.

You literally have light only from the back or front and if you have a narrow width, that's even tougher. You can look upwards in the form of a skylight or airwell, but that brings its own drawbacks.

In fact, it was the skylight in Brandon Teo and Sharon Tng's rented terrace house that made the upper floors unbearably warm on some days, and that was something they didn't want in their new house at Bukit Timah that was being rebuilt a stone's throw away.

But ''we definitely wanted more light for our terrace home,'' says Mr Teo, a businessman…