AIBU to think people following home trends such as glass lanterns regret this now

We got bifolds fitted and velux windows on the roof last year, and I have to say I regret it! Our garden is north facing, so I doubt we’re even experiencing half of what people who have south facing gardens will be going through. My little kitchen used to be so cool 😭 I’d definitely rethink things if I were to renovate again

You could say that about 95% of the threads on MN!

I am aware, I literally meant this summer we are having this year. Then we can use it again until next summer, where hopefully I'll have done the additions I mentioned and we might be able to use it a bit more.

However, once this summer passes it will be usable again

I hate to break it to you, but climate change isn't going 'to pass'.

Dd2 has a glass lantern in her kitchen/dining room. It opens and has a blind. I think it suits the area.

I'm not sure, which is why I asked...I just feel when they show them open ...across the whole rear of a house anything would wander in...plus thinking about it...the local fly population...and solar gain may be protected as others have said ...how is UV limited?

Why do you care op?

Lanterns and veluxes are usually not installed ti follow a trend. They sre where it is an architectural necessity to bring natural light in.
Also if you have opening windows invyour lantern, it acts like a chimney drawing hot air up and out of the house and is a cooling feature.

Our house has a similar orientation. Love our bifolds and lantern.The sun is only on the back of the house until 1 ish also next door has a lovely feathery leaved tree that casts some shade on us

My mum viewed a house in the winter and is just doing her first summer there. It’s a bungalow and only the top windows open, no “big”windows (I assume for security), there is a lovely roof lantern in the kitchen and a wall of glass with only a double door in it. It was a beautiful and bright house in the winter, it’s now an oven ☹️. But obviously this year has been unusually hot and well above averages so in a “normal” summer (if it goes back to normal) then it will be a lovely house.

I have long windows but not tall ones. However, when I moved in I painted the front of my south facing house dark and got a black front door. That was fine 10 years ago, now on the hottest days I have to use the back door because the black one expands so much it won’t close if you open it. And the skirting boards at the front of the house keep coming off the wall. There is a difference of 15°+ between winter and summer temps in this house and I don’t think it’s designed for that.

I also have a flat roof conversion with no roof lantern and even that gets sweltering. Occasionally I consider painting it white! I live near a town where a lot of roofs used to have green tiles and I wonder if the ones that are left are any cooler than the dark tiled houses

I have a glass lantern and it doesn't get noticeably hotter than the rest of rhe house. People put them in where surrounding buildings mean tbere isn enough light available through windows. Our room is surrounded by 2 storey buildings to the east, south and west and gets very little direct sun.

We’re having a kitchen diner extension and I’ve said to dh i don’t want the lantern skylights but velux instead. We’re just having normal patio doors rather than a wall of glass too. Dh is an aircon engineer though so we will be having aircon

When I lived in a house with a lot of glass doors a big part of my housework involved removing the endless smudges at dog nose height.

No regrets. Plus we just hang out in our open air loggia when the orangery is too stuffy ;)

Really, that's great to know. I used to live round there but would not go back because of the terrible heat that I fear London will continue to suffer from.

I don't think a flat skylight would be called a lantern, just the ones where several panes of glass make a lantern shape.

I’m buying at the moment and love the look of lanterns, bifold doors and skylights. Then I think about the heat, and how to clean them and pause a bit. How do you actually clean them? I have Velux windows in my loft conversion but they are easy to reach and clean.

If you’re looking for mid century houses that haven’t been mucked about, come to south east London: the houses on the Dulwich Woods Estate are governed by covenants which mean no extensions allowed.

Lots of the floor to ceiling glass apartments in Manchester city centre. Seen many people who live in them on social media complaining about the stifling heat because ..it's summer! I think they have one window grill that opens a few inches.

Why would anyone regret it, I’m sure ghey did it as they liked it, not just for blindly follow a trend. And you can open windows and doors and use blinds.

This. If you’ve not got them, I’d not worry yourself with what other people have.

We have bifolds across the back of our house but we have a north-facing garden. My parents have a lantern and bifolds in their south facing kitchen and it’s been so hot my mum has beared to turn the oven on for weeks!

YANBU OP.

We've got full height windows and doors in our south facing kitchen, and while I don't regret them I wish we'd had a pergola or something built to provide shade. Might have to invest in some form of shutter/canopy....

Yes . Just ignore them. They have no taste

Agree. I’m looking to move house at the moment and my heart sinks when I see a lovely Victorian house with a huge glass box whacked on the back taking up half the garden. The sellers seem to think that makes their house desirable, I want the original footprint and rooms!