https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:05:53 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-natural-light-is-in-your-home#post-193784 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:47:49 +0000 chopsuey 193784@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have lots of windows, but I usually keep the blinds down. Don't like peoPle looking in.. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-natural-light-is-in-your-home#post-193771 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:37:54 +0000 meaganceleste 193771@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We get quite a bit in our current place, but we had almost NONE in our last apartment thanks to shade cast by the building next door. I LOVE opening all the blinds and letting our house be lit naturally, makes me much happier. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-natural-light-is-in-your-home#post-193731 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:15:27 +0000 LuLu Mom 193731@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A lot, we have tons of big windows. One of my favorite parts of the house. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-natural-light-is-in-your-home#post-193639 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:20:36 +0000 eeh 193639@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a lot! Our formal living room as almost an entire wall of windows, our kitchen has three good sized windows of the sink, our family room has 10 foot window. All of our bedrooms and even our bathroom have good sized windows as well. The only dark part of our house is our basement which is to be expected. </p> <p>I really don't think I could live in a house that was lacking natural light. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-natural-light-is-in-your-home#post-193617 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:07:47 +0000 MrsBrewer 193617@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a lot and I loooove it! At our apartment we had hardly any coming in, but now that we bought and are living in out house, we have all the blinds open all the times and we hardly have to turn on any lights. Plus on our upper level, I want to turn our den into my "crafting area" and I want DH to put in a couple skylights for me :-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-natural-light-is-in-your-home#post-193572 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:37:23 +0000 plantains 193572@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A huge amount. We live on the 35th floor of a big building overlooking the East river so there is an insane amount of natural light. I kind of love it and can't recall how I coped without it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-natural-light-is-in-your-home#post-193552 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:28:53 +0000 Mrs. Pen 193552@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: me too! I NEED sunshine!!</p> <p>We have hardly any and honestly it depresses me A LOT. If I'm already feeling down about something, the lack of light in my house makes it exponentially worse.</p> <p>On our lower level we have ONE window, because the rest of the townhouse is behind the garage. And the lightbulbs there were in when we moved in SUCK. lol they're so yellow and icky light.<br /> Our upper level has three windows, once in each bedroom and it's definitely a lot lighter because there is more access to sun, whereas the bottom level window is blocked by all the other townhouses. </p> <p>It's such a pain. And I hate it. But we'll be moving soon, hopefully we find something with more light. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-natural-light-is-in-your-home#post-193543 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:25:25 +0000 Alivoo01 193543@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a small house, but if we open all the windows, we get a decent amount. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-natural-light-is-in-your-home#post-193358 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 07:36:01 +0000 mrsjyw 193358@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>TONS! :) windows in every room except guest baths... and a two floor great room with tall high windows. i love how bright it is in our house esp during the summer~ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-natural-light-is-in-your-home#post-193343 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 07:09:04 +0000 heffalump 193343@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have lots of windows, but I keep the blinds shut. Light gives me migraines. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-natural-light-is-in-your-home#post-193295 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 04:17:46 +0000 SugarplumsMom 193295@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A lot. So much that I have to close the windows upstairs because it's way too sunny. In our bedroom there's a double layer of protection: pull down blinds and blackout curtains. We wouldn't be able to stay asleep otherwise. The sun's out at 3:30am to 10:30pm during the summer (that's when it is actually sunny). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-natural-light-is-in-your-home#post-193287 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 02:55:05 +0000 mediagirl 193287@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Downstairs rear and upstairs front get tons. We do keep the curtains closed in summer though since it gets soooo hot. Thanks goodness for blackout curtains! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-natural-light-is-in-your-home#post-193284 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 02:43:30 +0000 mynoahbear 193284@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We get lots of sunlight. We're on the 17th floor with a view of Tokyo Bay, so we get so much light in the morning and early afternoon. We have blackout curtains in our room and LO's room but I open all the curtains during the day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-natural-light-is-in-your-home#post-193217 Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:54:38 +0000 Mrs. Superhero 193217@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our bedroom has amazing light, it's where I take nice photos. Sadly it also has massive blackout blinds everywhere as DH works night shift. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-natural-light-is-in-your-home#post-193151 Sun, 17 Jun 2012 20:23:41 +0000 SleepyMonkey 193151@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>our apartment is south facing, so we get tons of sunlight, but not direct. it was one of the draws of this apartment. even still, our apartment gets steaming hot in the summer even with our shades down. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-natural-light-is-in-your-home#post-192933 Sun, 17 Jun 2012 12:37:48 +0000 skibobrown 192933@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a ton of natural light in our current place. It's my favorite thing about the townhouse. We have huge sliding glass doors, and and a double-height ceiling in our living room with a huge window that lets in a ton of light. I love it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-natural-light-is-in-your-home#post-192927 Sun, 17 Jun 2012 12:15:21 +0000 Grace 192927@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Tons!! Basically, the whole front and back of the house is covered in windows, so we get either morning or afternoon sun all day. It's such a contrast from when we lived in the townhouse. There, it was north facing, the windows were indented in the wall and they were tiny!! Had to have the lights on most of the time. I'm so much happier with sunshine! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-natural-light-is-in-your-home#post-192896 Sun, 17 Jun 2012 10:55:39 +0000 Meridian 192896@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Lots! We're the top floor of a 3rd floor walk-up, so we get lots of light... one of the reasons we picked this place! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-natural-light-is-in-your-home#post-192856 Sun, 17 Jun 2012 09:19:44 +0000 BoogieBea 192856@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We get a lot of natural light. It is important to have a place with a lot of natural light here since it's overcast for so many months in the year. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-natural-light-is-in-your-home#post-192853 Sun, 17 Jun 2012 09:14:09 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 192853@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When we open all the curtains we have a lot. It was on my must have list when we were shopping for our house. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-natural-light-is-in-your-home#post-192848 Sun, 17 Jun 2012 09:07:40 +0000 HLK208 192848@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not enough. It's not depressingly dark but I open all the blinds every day. We have dark hardwood floors dark cabinets. The people who remodeled our house last didn't add ceiling lights to the living room or master bedroom so we had to buy quite a few lamps. I love natural light in houses though, definitely a must for my next house! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-natural-light-is-in-your-home#post-192827 Sun, 17 Jun 2012 08:12:04 +0000 looch 192827@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a lot of natural light, but I totally understand the brownstone darkness problem. When I was living in Hoboken, I had a garden apartment...windows in the front and one in the back. It was literally the dungeon. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-natural-light-is-in-your-home#post-192822 Sun, 17 Jun 2012 07:29:53 +0000 hilsy85 192822@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a TON--we have a corner unit on the 6th floor, facing west and south. It was one of the must-haves when we were looking for an apartment. We moved from a brownstone that had not much natural light, and I realized that I"m just a happier person when I get lots of sunshine! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-natural-light-is-in-your-home#post-192813 Sun, 17 Jun 2012 06:50:18 +0000 mrs. bird 192813@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not enough! In our living room &amp; dining room we get a bunch, there are 6 windows &amp; it's not that big of a space. But our kitchen &amp; bathroom don't have ANY windows, drives me crazy! The bedrooms each have 2 windows, which is fine since they're tiny rooms. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-natural-light-is-in-your-home#post-192808 Sun, 17 Jun 2012 06:20:26 +0000 Andrea 192808@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have a lot of natural light and we also have skylights. It gets really hot sometimes, though, on super sunny days! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-much-natural-light-is-in-your-home#post-192807 Sun, 17 Jun 2012 06:15:13 +0000 mrbee 192807@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We live in a brownstone duplex, with our bottom floor in the basement. So we don't get as much natural light as we'd like in the house. Plus Charlie and Olive's room have blackout blinds, so they're often only lit with artificial lights. That said, we do open Olive's blinds during the day quite a bit!</p> <p>Since we don't get a ton of natural light, I often try to leave the house in the mornings so that I get some natural light that way! It's a great excuse to get a morning coffee. :)</p> <p>How much natural light is in your home? </p>