128. Indoor Sunlight
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If the right rooms are facing south, a house is bright and sunny and cheerful; if the wrong rooms are facing south, the house is dark and gloomy.
Place the most important rooms along the south edge of the building, and spread the building out along the east-west axis.
Fine tune the arrangement so that the proper rooms are exposed to the south-east and the south-west sun. For example: give the common area a full southern exposure, bedrooms suth-east, porch south-west. For most climates this means the shape of the building is elongated east-west.
When you can, open up these indoor sunny rooms to the outdoors, and build a sunny place and outdoor rooms directly outside 161. Sunny Place, 163. Outdoor Room, 236. Windows Which Open Wide. Give the bedrooms eastern exposure-138. Sleeing to the East, and put storage and garages to he north--162. North Face. Where there is a kitchen, try to put its work counter toward the sun-199. Sunny Counter; perhaps do the same for any work bench or desk in a 157. Home Workshop, 183. Workspace Enclosure...
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