Northeast facing garden

Davesnave

emcb20 said:

hazyjo said:

Mine's east facing and my last was north.

The sun has gone early from outside the back doors, but we have a patio at the end which gets sun all afternoon. Garden is prob only 30-40 feet.

In my last house, we got sun outside all afternoon as there wasn't much blocking us to the west. Didn't expect it! Was a very sunny patio area!

Really depends on what's around and where the shadows are cast.

It is such a difficult decision as the open plan kitchen/diner and living room are all at the back of the house so don't want those rooms to be dull, especially when we have bifold doors!

We have a north facing kitchen/diner and the south facing living room with patio doors is directly behind it.

The kitchen/diner is a great place to retreat to in hot weather, while the living room can become very warm on those sunny days. However, as we're not people who sit down and relax until evening, the overdose of heat and light in the living room isn't a great concern. The patio doors are good for ventilation, but as we're in the country, they come with added flies, as do  all the opening windows on the south side. It wasn't something we thought about at all when we purchased.

As we live in a bungalow with no surrounding taller properties or trees outside our control, the amount of shade on the north side is probably less than with many houses, but we don't find the kitchen/diner dark or depressing. We can still look out on a sunny front garden and view, if there is any sunshine, and opening the windows doesn't result in a large influx of of insect life!

Splatfoot

Our current garden is South East facing and the hot summers we've been having the last few years, means the kitchen is a horrid place to be! Just another perspective on garden positions! 

RelievedSheff

Our garden is east facing and as you look at the front of the house the garden is located to the side of the house. The front of our house is south facing. We get the sun until about 2pm on the patio and until about 5pm at the very bottom of the garden.

On hot days we find it is nice to be on the patio out of the sun. Our house has a tendency to over heat due to a lot of south facing windows so it is nice to have somewhere to escape the heat.

Like Splatfoot above our kitchen which has windows on the south and east elevation and patio doors on the east elevation gets very hot on sunny days. The only rooms that keep cool in our house are the downstairs loo on the north side of the house and the smallest bedroom which only has a window on the east of the house. All other rooms have south facing windows!!

FinallyStoppedLurking

When we were looking at houses I used Find My Shadow - https://findmyshadow.com/
It will plot where the shadows will be at various times of the day throughout the year. You can also upload a picture (you could use the plot map) and then just draw over the buildings. The only thing you need to know is the height of the buildings. Obviously you won't have this exactly but you can estimate.

Scotbot

I  have a north facing garden but as the house is at the top of a crescent it backs onto other gardens so gets sun all day in the summer months. One of the selling features was the landscaped garden, it certainly does not stop  plants growing. The seating area is at the bottom where it is sunniest.  Length of garden and what surrounds it is as important as aspect for sun

 More important for me is the effect inside.  My living dining area faces south and is very light, in the winter it is warm without heating on sunny days which I like. The kitchen faces north which again I like as I hate a hot kitchen.  The main bedroom also faces north which is great in the summer as it doesn't get too hot. It is easy to heat rooms but harder to cool them, For me a north facing main living area would be a deal breaker.

pinkteapot

We’re in a new house with a north-east garden. We get the Sun until lunchtime then the house shadow moves back during the afternoon. In high summer the sun is gone at the back by 5pm. Either side of that this time gets earlier. You definitely won’t have sunny evenings, if that’s what you’re after.

sgun

Our kitchen is dual aspect but the double doors at the back face NE. We get nice breakfast sun but only until around 11am in the summer, less in the winter. We back onto fields so no trees or fences obscuring the light, it is quite dark on cloudy days. It doesn't bother us but if I was buying an Avant (as I believe yours is) then I would want the kitchen to be south or west facing. After all, the kitchen open space and bifolds/garden outlook are one of their main selling points, don't pay a premium for a space that you can't use how you would like to.

LittleMax

really? said:

I suppose it could still be a perfectly good buy though if you don't see yourself there for the rest of your days. 

Resale will be an issue - we have just struggled to sell a property with a north east facing garden.  People are spending more time at home and outside space is becoming more significant.

EmmyLou30

For new builds those gardens sound huge! But you said it was up north......just shows what a difference that makes. 
My garden is north facing, 12m x 12m ish. We have kitchen/diner at the back of the house with patio doors. I think if you've big windows/doors then even in winter it's light enough and as others have said south facing rooms are unpleasant in high summer anyway.

Our garden is mostly in full sun all day long in summer except the patio next to the house (our choice, we hate the sun! but a patio our shed sits on in the far corner is the sun trap). During the summer the house barely casts a shadow, in winter it shadows most of the lawn but easily a few metres at the end of the garden still in sun, including the patio with the shed on. Honestly it's all too sunny for me and as a gardener who loves shady plants I'm gutted I can't have so many ferns and hostas as I'd like! So a north facing garden 10m long will always have a sunny area unless neighbours have humungous trees - as a new built estate they clearly won't have in OP's case.  

Scotbot

LittleMax said:

really? said:

I suppose it could still be a perfectly good buy though if you don't see yourself there for the rest of your days. 

Resale will be an issue - we have just struggled to sell a property with a north east facing garden.  People are spending more time at home and outside space is becoming more significant.

Not round  here. Two  houses with North facing gardens have sold within a week. One was a fixer upper but sensibly priced,  the other had been fixed up and IMO was an ambitious price but it did look lovely