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

Theres been a few threads on here with people having huge regrets about their massive wall of windows and bifold doors etc etc.

We are generally a temperate country so people wouldnt have expected it.

Depends on the orientation of the room in question and what the immediate surroundings are like in terms of the proximity of tall buildings and tall trees.

The recent fad for building blocks of flats with enormous floor to ceiling windows and new build houses that have average sized kitchens with sort of conservatory ends on them, then yes, I'd certainly be questioning purchasing one of those if they were south or west facing.

I remember seeing a place up for sale a few years back like that and it looked like a nightmare. It wasn't a particularly big room and the whole back wall and a section of the roof space was glass. Awkwardly shaped as well, so really expensive to buy blinds for. It would have been really hard to heat in winter and practically unusable in the summer. Imagine being hugely uncomfortable and inconvenienced in your own kitchen for 2/3rds of the year.

We have a skylight lantern in our kitchen. We have a blind for it and also had air con fitted. No regrets, it looks great and we are cool even in the 35 degrees it was yesterday.

I'd love loads of glass. You just have to plan for the weather. My lounge with patio doors faces south so I've had an awning installed and I've planted trees for shade. For most of the year (in the UK) we want more heat and more light in the house.

I feel the same about people who use the phrase ‘give their head a wobble’.

Living the dream! 😂

I'm 100% with you in the hatred of the monolith island. Think they're so ugly and would never buy a house with one or put one in my kitchen. Only thing I hate more is a media wall. SOOOOOOO ugly.

I quite like the huge glass though. Love a lot of light, although less so the heat it brings now.

Definitely no regrets…

I feel deeply sorry for the people around the corner from me who have just put in double storey glass
extension - west facing so could be worse but I’m sure this summer will have been absolutely hellish for them

Never knew that those skylights were called lanterns! Was initially pretty confused by this thread.

What fo you mean by lanterns op?

We bought a house with a large
roof lantern in the kitchen extension and I hate it, I’d never choose to install one now that I’ve experienced having one. Boiling hot in the summer, cold in the winter, it’s a spider/cobweb/dead fly trap, a pain to clean and usually covered in bird shit within hours of cleaning. We’re getting air con, blinds and uv reflecting film installed when we have the kitchen remodelled later this year and I can’t wait.

Not sure about your rodent point, are bifolds really so different to patio doors that have been around and ‘flung open’ for many years?

Trying to picture this, is it a thin strip between two brick structures? Or more like a glass corridor? Something else?

Consider upgrading to modern skylights that have outer blinds and films, inbuilt louvres and that open to let out heat.

The option to shield from direct sunlight and let out hottest air makes a difference.

Trees are a God send.

Oh you would love them to be upset and regretful. What a pointless, unpleasant AIBU.

There is a house on our road (SE England, so v hot) that has a glass slice that runs from roof to bottom of the house to connect original house with extension. I do think that house must be insanely hot and you wouldn't design it like that now.

Its scary conservative estimates are 2,500 deaths a year attributed to log burners... then additionally the particles are linked to diabetes, heart disease and stroke.

Cost to NHS for thinking a flame looks pretty @ £54 million per annum.

Grew up in a house out in fields so not a naive townie...no gas connection, cesspool etc..still would not inflict that 'deadly glamour' on anyone else...there are non Victorian options non log burner solutions that don't affect health so badly

Your house sounds capacious ..bonus 🌿🍀

We've bought a house with 3 log burners, 1 gas and one wood/coal fires. Even have a log burner in the large shed in the garden which is very very odd. Be like going back to the famous smog if we used all those! Will block and remove, all bar the normal fireplace.

Neighbours next door to late FIL's house in London spent a fortune taking down the downstairs wall and replacing it with huge glass panels for their kitchen. Then summer happened. She said it was just awful, the heat and regretted it.

I always worry that big bifold doors flung open give open access to the local rodent population....into your house.

Extensive use of glass in new high rise 'chic' flats or new school buildings ...but still need artificial lighting on and A/C really concern me for the future..no way to fling a window open and ventilate.

Don't get me started on the deaths associated with log burners ..poor air quality and particulates deaths etc. and their additional contribution to climate change 😔 People saying they've always wanted the awful harm causing things as if they are glamorous ...grim

I agree this is true for new builds but does it apply to extensions?

I’m in Australia and we do big glass walls. Double glazed, have the right sized eaves. Not an issue.

Self cleaning glazing exists for these things.

This is absolutely not true. The building standards for domestic dwellings are quite clear on what you can and can’t do when it comes to sustainability, U values, thermal capabilities of homes etc. If you try to offset heat gain with aircon, you have to make a sustainable offset with heat pumps / solar panels or similar.