Our place does not, which means that the photos we post to the blog aren't nearly as good as they could be haha! Oh well, lesson learned.
Does your house/apartment get a lot of natural light?
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Not a lot but a decent amount. I much prefer opening the blinds during the day opposed to turning on the lights.
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Yes tons of natural light!
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A ton, we have a corner unit. It's the main reason we picked our apt!
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Yup we get tons, especially in LO's room! It was a big part of the reason why we fell in love with and bought our current house
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No & as a photographer it makes me sad.
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Yes!!! I love it!
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Yes, we're on the top floor of a 3rd floor walk-up, so we get all the light!
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Lots. We have a lot of windows.
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@photojane Im a photog in VA too!
Certain rooms at different times of day get really good light. I love it!
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No and I wish it did. It's depressing.
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Not at our rental, but our house does.
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Yes! We have huge windows and are on the corner so we finally get such great light (well, when we remember/bother to open the blinds). Our old apt was ground level and got hardly any light, plus we always had the blinds closed for privacy since you could see directly in from the sidewalk.
I love all the light we get now and am psyched that our baby photos will hopefully be better because of it. The landlord also left blackout curtains in the bedroom!
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Sort of but not as much as I would like. Things to think about for the next place.
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Yes and the people who did the redesign used light amplifying techniques. Even right now at 8 pm I'm bathing in natural light
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Yes, in most of the house!
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Kinda. We have lots of windows, but they face North. All of the rooms get nice and bright when the sun's out except the living room/kitchen area. :T
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No, and the bedroom only gets light first thing in the morning, it is so dark the rest of the day! The living room gets decent light during the day, but still not what I'd consider a lot. The kitchen and spare room get hardly any because of the way the houses are situated in either side.
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Yes!
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Yes! We have windows all over the east and west sides of the house. All my apartments were so dark, it was one of my must haves for our house.
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Yes, I love natural light. We have four skylights (2 in the dinning area and 2 in the family room) in our home. It is the one unique aspect of our home that I love the most.
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Yes! Our apt is wedge shaped in the lounge area and it is all windows around the crescent, plus big sliding glass doors (four of them in the lounge/dining areas) and big wall windows. Considering we live on the beach in Australia with ocean views, I'd say lots of windows and natural light are a must! The bedrooms all have big windows and lots of natural light as well, but they don't face the ocean.
One of our criteria in finding a place to live is natural light and orientation to the sun (here that's north facing, in the UK/US it is south facing).
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Somewhat- for an apartment it's actually really great! Although its a lot of really harsh light which is a disappointment because then the curtains have to be drawn during the day.
It's sooo much better than our last place. I hated how dark it was.It is definitely a must when we eventually buy a house
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@Mrs. Jacks: can you give an example of a light amplifying technique in action? That sounds cool!
Our house gets very little and we live in a cloudy city
I feel like I need the lights even in the afternoon sometimes!
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@sunny: Ok, so I thought this was initially a little cheesy when we first saw our house, but our dining room has a box beam ceiling (very pretty). In the recesses, they placed a number of small square mirrors (I'll see if I can find a picture). The dining room only has one set of windows and though it is south facing, light is blocked coming in... so those mirrors take in all the ambient light and focus it downward filling up the room.
It is very tasteful and very light amplifying!
Another thing you can see is that the brick is sealed, which also amplifies light and then the travertine tiles in the kitchen are the lightest dune color and also amplify light.
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@hilsy85: Your apartment gets great light! I remember from your bump pictures
Ours doesn't. I wish it did!
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@Mrs. Jacks: gorgeous!!!
I feel like I always have two answers for home questions.
Ours does not. The only room that gets a lot of light is the kids room. Our living room is so dark and depressing. It doesn't help that we have dark floors that go into the kitchen with dark cabinetry. We also have tree's everywhere blocking the sunlight. When it's cloudy, I have to have every lamp and ceiling light on.
Our new house, does! We have two huge windows from the top of the stairs that let a lot of light into the house. The mornings will be better for natural light. The living area does get a little dark in the afternoon but not nearly as bad as our old house.
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@Running Elley: ha yup, I always took them in our kitchen which is right by all the windows!
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@HLK208: Every house is somewhat dark where you live! It's not the houses, it's the lack of ambient light
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Not really even though we have skylights in the house.
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no we live on the first floor of our building and we're facing the back and all we see is a brick wall, it least its painted white so it reflects the light
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Not too bad...it's small and it's got big windows, but they're only on one side.
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Luckily the room we spend the most time in (the living room) has nice big windows that let in a lot of light.
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Yes... we do now. We lived in one dark apartment once (but it had a backyard! in Manhattan!)... We lasted there not even two years and learned our lesson after that. We had a ton of natural light at our following place and now at our current one.
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@Mrs. Jacks: Wow that looks nice!!
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