I love the light in my bedroom which has eastern and a southern facing windows. The east facing window (wish I had a wall of windows there) faces the back yard, so all I see is green from April until November. We have lots of trees! The southfacing window looks to a neighbor's home, but there is a holly on that side and several branches reach across the window. My curtains are French brise-bise, so very light and they allow light and shadow to filter through which is lovely this time of day. I keep the ones looking out back open and the ones looking to the neighbor closed. I will try to take a picture and add it.

ETA:. It is hard to get a picture when the light is coming in because the walls end up looking dark. Sigh. Anyway, it is a small bedroom, but it is cozy and pretty with a lovely view for waking up in the morning.

I guess it depends on the rooms on what light you want. Ours house faces west. The living room and dining are flooded with light during the day. It is nice watching the sunset from the large picture window. The master is also in the front and I don't get woken by the eastern morning light. Now the sun room is in the back of the house and faces east. And that works out well. We get the morning light, but not the hot afternoon sun.

Eastern, hands down. I'm a morning person and my kitchen and kitchen/dining table are along the eastern side of my house. Morning sun! Because there are houses behind me, I get their reflected western sun in the afternoon, so my eastern rooms remain light and bright.

My bedroom also gets early eastern sun. I like waking early and naturally, so I welcome the morning sun.

Cyn, function and Linelle... your rooms sound so beautiful. If you have photos I would love to see them!

Ours is a mid-century house that has only north and south facing windows. It's a bit of an early passive solar design (1954). Unfortunately, there's not enough overhang to make the design truly passive solar, and the large south windows are single-paned, so the light from the south can be a bit much.

The north side is the service side of the house -- the kitchen, two baths and my office. These windows are higher on the wall and provide a nice, not-too intense light most of the time. There's also a large tree on this side that provides a nice dappled light in summer -- that's may favorite light in this house.

The south side of the house has the same higher windows in the two guest rooms (necessary for furniture placement), but floor-to-ceiling walls and doors in the living/dining and in the master. There's a tree outside the master, which gives some relief, but none outside the LR/DR.

We've been here almost six months and I'm still trying to figure out the right window treatments and outdoor shade structures to make sure we get the light, but not too much heat/glare on the south side. I am very glad there are no west-facing windows, and no outdoor living areas on the west side. We had that at our last home and the hot high desert afternoons were too much, so those spaces weren't used that much.

Not any sun today, just a bunch of white stuff. Yuk. But when the sun does shine the rooms are fooded with light.

east facing for sunrise and bright morning light and south facing, great all year round but particularly in winter when the light warms my screened porch and great room

Definitely eastern morning sun. Western and southern exposures are too strong. The oak keeping room floor has suffered fading as a result of too much exposure. Finally remedied that with a new rug.

Our New Mexican hacienda is shaped kind of like a boomerang with the two end rooms, MBR and living room, each having windows on 3 sides. Only at each end is our home one room deep, though. One having north, west, and south views/exposure; the other having a north, east, and south views. Both are my favorite rooms. Our builder designed this house so that those rooms get great light, but are not blasted by the afternoon sun, thank goodness! This is not the greatest view of our living room, but we’re in Taos at the moment and it’s the only one that I have access to here. To the left, out of the photo, is another bank of windows.

I think early morning light from the east and just before dusk light from the west are my favorites.

Nutsaboutplants, your place is gorgeous!!!

My first response to the question "what your favorite sunlit rooms are" would be ANY, especially this time of year.

We live in the PNW, albeit on the east side of the mountains. Our house faces northwest, and we live in the woods. We're also on a slope, with the higher side behind us, so a very poor solar site. In the winter the sun barely gets above the trees, and not for very long. On top of that it is often gray here this time of year.

Summer is great.

But here's a peak at my skiing Santas that I took a few years ago and the sun was coming in from the east and lighting their way . . .

I'm in a valley in the northeast that's known for its lack of sunshine, so any sunlit room is good here and rooms with south-facing windows are usually the brightest -- my fav.

Eastern sun, no doubt about it. Before we remodeled, the house faced east and the LR had a large eastern window. Now our house faces north with a smaller east window in the LR.

However, I am so happy the front door faces north, no more fading from the harsh morning sun!

We have two large south windows in the house, one in the LR and one in the UR, and I love that direct sun doesn't shine through the windows in the summer because of the Oak trees so I can keep the shutters open when its hot.

The west windows? We covered the patio, too hot in the summer. :)

So much of the year it's cold where I am so I love my bedroom in the SW corner of the house. It heats up so nicely, and with so little sunshine this time of year, any sunny day there is most appreciated. You can always find my cats there too. I also have my craft room in the SW corner for all the brightness and daylight, it makes seeing fine work and thread colors so much easier.

But we did purposely put our deck on the SE corner so we could capture the early morning light and it's sheltered from the worst of the hot sun in the summer.

My kitchen faces east, so I get wonderful morning light. But it also highlights every streak of dust on the counters and floors, :(. I have a front porch that faces west, and I have to say it is my favorite place in my house in the summer and early fall.

East year round and west in the summer (might be SW), but the sun angle is harsh in the winter months when -- the sun is blinding at a low angle and then it's my LEAST favorite.

This thread is so timely! Earlier today I was struck by how beautiful the long rays of the setting sun lit up a couple colored glass vases in the room across from the LR window and the entire corner glowed with colorful light. It also highlighted a thick layer of dust on the adjacent dining room table that I had no idea was there!

My home faces West, and I love the Sunny living room with large bow window as my last house had a dark, dark, dark LR. I also appreciate the East sun in the morning which helps wake me up. There are no south windows here except in the garage. BTW, I love Cyn's curtains!.

Eastern. My sunroom and my bedroom windows face east. I'm up at 7 am, a morning person. I head straight to the sunroom with my coffee and my dog. She hangs out in there until dark, while I'm in other rooms.