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128 Indoor Sunlight

May be part of South Facing Outdoors (105), Intimacy Gradient (127).

Conflict

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.

Resolution

Place the most important rooms along the south edge of the building, and spread the building out along the east-wast 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 south-est, porch south-west. For most climates this means the shape of the building is elongated east-west.

May contain Sunny Place (161), Windows which Open Wide (236), Sleeping to the East (138), North Face (162), Sunny Counter (199).