Home is your place on earth. Here you can relax and unwind, spend time with family and friends. How you decorate the interior depends on your aesthetic tastes and needs. Do you prefer a minimalist or rustic style? Or maybe you do not surrender to conventions and appreciate original and unusual combinations? Properly selected furniture, accessories, and fabrics create the atmosphere of the house and determine how both residents and guests will feel in it. The natural lighting of the interiors and what can be seen through the windows is also of great importance. Our well-being is influenced by the surroundings of the house and its position in relation to the world. A garden, a forest, a meadow – no matter what you see outside your windows, these are excellent sources of peace and relaxation. What if you could blur the line between them and the interior of your home?
How does the placing of a house affect window exposure?
Building your own house gives you enormous opportunities to design it according to your individual needs. This applies not only to its shape or the nature of the interior. How you situate it on the parcel of land, or what kind of windows you choose, will have a major impact on the final result.
When planning the construction, consider how you will use the various rooms and, depending on this, choose the appropriate window exposure. The direction of the world they will face will largely determine how well-lit the rooms will be. Depending on the time of day and year, different amounts of light will come through windows facing different directions. As a result, rooms can be brighter or more shaded. In addition, the large amount of sunlight entering the house will naturally reheat the rooms. This, in turn, will affect the energy balance – in winter it can reduce heating costs, but in summer it can make the heat feel a lot more. For this reason, when designing a house, it is worth considering well what you care about most and how to get it by choosing a place concerning the sides of the world.
There is no one right answer to the question of what kind of positioning of a house is most comfortable. Just as the way the interior is decorated is an individual matter, the amount of light and heat depends entirely on your tastes and needs. If you prefer to wake up to the glare of the sun’s rays, make sure your bedroom windows face east. You dream of evenings at sunset – you can then plan the living room windows or terrace on the west side. South-facing windows will provide wonderful light and warm up the house all year round, while north-facing windows will allow you to keep moderate light during the day, which can create favorable conditions for work.
What windows to choose, so the views are not limited?
When you decide on a particular placement of your house on a plot of land, you are not only deciding what its exposure to sunlight will be. It will also directly affect what you see outside your windows. The views you get every day will create the atmosphere of your home and directly affect its character. Therefore, it is also worth taking care of their appropriate setting. Windows matched to the interior and landscape will be a perfect complement to the interior design. But what if you could also match them with blinds, doors, and even a gate and create a harmonious design with an individual character? Such a possibility is offered by DAKO‘s HarmonyLine. It is a unique idea of designing windows, doors, gates, and roller shutters together and matching the entire joinery to the individual character of the building. With the ability to choose the colors and materials of the joinery, as well as decorative elements, it allows you to create your own composition, tailored to your needs. The whole is made of top-class materials, using innovative methods and technologies.
If, on the other hand, you want to have the widest possible view, uninterrupted by frames or structural elements, you can use the innovative DA-SkyLine sliding door solution with a hidden frame. This innovative solution made by DAKO, is based on narrow profiles, thanks to which window and door constructions gain a modern and minimalist look. The modern technology used in them allows the frame to be hidden in the walls, floor, and ceiling, so it is possible to obtain an impressive panoramic glazing of really large size while maintaining excellent thermal insulation parameters of the structure.
Whichever solution you choose, DAKO will help you personalize it. The complexity of the service and the purchase of all elements from a single manufacturer gives you a guarantee that they will work together and the importance of reducing paperwork. The only thing left will be to enjoy your home, which is not limited to the four walls, but gives you space and allows you to look over the horizon.
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