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We are about to buy home and I always want my home to be bright and sunny throughout the day. We recently like one home facing North and the back side faces South. Living area and kitchen and patio faces south.
Overall we like the home but my only concern is we can get more sunlight from south side or west side?
It's in Minnesota. So plz guys advice me . Will this house be bright and sunny and should I go for it?
Thanks
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We have a similar orientation. Our street goes east to west, so the front gets very little sunlight, and the back which is the dining room, kitchen and family room gets sun all day (when we have sun). On that rare sunny fall/winter/spring day it's nice, since that's where we spend our time. In summer it can be annoyingly bright, so we have to close blinds, and it also heats up by afternoon so that we have to turn on the AC by about 4pm. Our East side gets no sun do to the house next door and tall trees, the west side gets afternoon/evening sun, but that's only the garage and bonus room above it.
We are about to buy home and I always want my home to be bright and sunny throughout the day. We recently like one home facing North and the back side faces South. Living area and kitchen and patio faces south.
Overall we like the home but my only concern is we can get more sunlight from south side or west side?
It's in Minnesota. So plz guys advice me . Will this house be bright and sunny and should I go for it?
Thanks
Your kitchen and living area and patio will be plenty sunny assuming you have windows.
What good is a South facing house (for sunlight purposes) if the living areas face North? Kind of misses the point, no?
My house faces North. But the equally long and straight back of the house faces South. The kitchen faces south. The windows in the back of the house are smaller, but that's ok with me since in North Carolina, that means less energy spent cooling the place in the summer. We get plenty of natural light all day.
Living areas need to be south facing in colder climates. It’s really the most sensible energy and light in the winter months. Whatever area you use least can be north facing and then you get nice even solar distribution throughout the day.
If you were in the Southern Hemisphere or a sunnier climate I’d give different advice
We are about to buy home and I always want my home to be bright and sunny throughout the day. We recently like one home facing North and the back side faces South. Living area and kitchen and patio faces south.
Overall we like the home but my only concern is we can get more sunlight from south side or west side?
It's in Minnesota. So plz guys advice me . Will this house be bright and sunny and should I go for it?
Thanks
Whatever faces south will be the 'bright and sunny' (and HOT) parts of the house in summer.
FWIW, we just finished extending our covered porch over the entire south side of our house to keep the house cooler in summer.
Thanks all
The house have really big windows and patio on the south.
So kitchen and living room faces south but 2 bedroom faces north.
My confusion was we get more sunlight from south or west side ?
Because that house is North - South orientation, north front, south back.
Our home faces east, but we have a wall of windows on the south side of the house. We get lots of light throughout the whole house. The sun is coming in through the east and south side windows right now. I am also in NC, but in the mountains, so having an east facing house is actually nice since we don't get terribly warm at our elevation.
I think you'll get plenty of light from the south. You'll have light all day long with that. If your windows face west, then you have half the day - at most - with sun in those rooms.
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