West facing garden

tiny_atoms

Hi all
Just wondering your thoughts on a west facing garden?
We are about to buy a property and the garden is west facing. The house is great. Only thing is it seems quite dark inside. To the right there is a another house attached to it (semi detached). I think that house would most likely get the sun and it's blocking it going into the house we want.
Anyone got any experience of a west facing garden?
Thanks

swishy87

West is best as they say... We've just bought a house that's west facing. Not had a summer yet but it gets any sun there is in the winter. Only shadow is the fence.

tiny_atoms

Thanks for the response. Our current garden is south facing so I'm slightly nervous as it gets loads of sun and it goes through the patio doors into our house really nicely.
Is your garden west facing or the front of your house?

swishy87

The garden. We chose the plot specifically as the others were north facing. We looked at the site in the summer and the sun was in the 'garden'.

hazyjo

Have also heard 'west is best'. It will obviously set at the back, so depends what'a behind you/to the side. If a row of tall four storey townhouses, it may well be dark earlier on.

Jx

ibizafan_2

I think west facing is better than south facing as you get plenty of sun on the front of the house first thing in the morning. My present house has a west facing garden, and it is just perfect. An estate agent told me that it's the best aspect, followed by south.

swishy87

But it also depends what would cast a shadow too.

you_llneverwalkalone

We live in a west facing house.

Get the sun at the front of the house just after noon & all day till the sun goes down.

SuzieSue

I think south-west facing garden is the ideal garden but if you can't have that then west or south are both good.

With a west facing garden, you will get the sun at the front of the house all morning and then you will have the sun in the garden all afternoon until it sets.

With a south facing garden you will get the sun all day in the garden but the front will be in the shade all day and vice versa for a north facing garden,

I have an east facing garden and I get the sun all morning. By late afternoon only a small corner of the garden still has sun.

getmore4less

SuzieSue wrote: »

I think south-west facing garden is the ideal garden but if you can't have that then west or south are both good.

With a west facing garden, you will get the sun at the front of the house all morning and then you will have the sun in the garden all afternoon until it sets.

With a south facing garden you will get the sun all day in the garden but the front will be in the shade all day and vice versa for a north facing garden,

I have an east facing garden and I get the sun all morning. By late afternoon only a small corner of the garden still has sun.

a pure north south will get morning and evening sun on the north facing aspect. From late March till late Sept, mid June it will be around 3hr each in the South 4hr north Scotland..

Sea_Shell

Can't beat a west facing garden for lazy afternoons/evenings in the summer!! (assuming all the sun isn't blocked out by other houses,trees etc.)