Vaulted Ceilings - Turn Off Ceiling Fan and Install Sun blocking Window film to Keep Cool

Turn Off Ceiling Fan and Install Sun blocking Window film to Keep Cool - Vaulted Ceilings
We struggle every summer to keep this room cool. The previous owners turned this former garage into a family room with a vaulted ceiling and skylights. This is a fantastic room that we use more than any other in the house, but the skylights make it very difficult to cool in the high summer temperatures.
If you are also in this situation, I recommend turning off your vaulted ceiling fan in the summer and using a tower fan, box fan or oscillating fan instead. This will help keep the warmer air up by the ceiling and allow the cooler air to be lower making you feel cool and more comfortable.
Additionally, I added reflective solar, sun blocking window film on the two skylights that receive the most intense afternoon sun. Adding window film to skylights is a somewhat intense job, requiring moving a suitable ladder and working over your head at perhaps an uncomfortable height - so maybe a job for a handyman.
Regardless of how you install your sun blocking window film, I highly recommend it as I am confident that you will feel a huge difference in temperature.
By taking these two steps, shutting off your vaulted ceiling fan and installing sun blocking window film, we have lowered the average afternoon temperature by about 5 degrees in that room. It was not unusual for our family room to get to 86 degrees while the house thermostat is set at 77.