Finding the Light - Paying attention to the light and shadows

As the roof continues to go on at 100 Yorktown, an initial verdict is starting to come in as to how natural light will illuminate the interior of the house.  The house fronts facing west and the rear faces east.  So as we picked a plan I tried to be aware of how and where natural sunlight would come into the house.

Obviously, over the course of the day and throughout the seaons of the year, 100 Yorktown will receive varying amounts of sunlight.  With the two covered porches, the downstairs windows will be shaded in the summer at midday and provide indirect light.  The photo below shows the afternoon (2 PM) sun shining through the lower portion of the Tyvek in the future dining room windows.  This shows what the covered porch will do with light.

Idea of future window light with a 2 o'clock sun

Now just above the dining room will be Camden's bedroom.  The room has two large windows and two smaller windows in the nook and bathroom portions of what we are starting to call the junior suite.  The photo below shows the same 2 o'clock sun.  Remember that the tyvek has already been removed from the upstairs window.

Upstairs notice the amount of light cast on the floor