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

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Those who have done extensions in their kitchens etc that put glass lanterns and/or floor to ceiling glass walls without any openings. They must have been regretting these plus other things that warm homes unintentionally.

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

Definitely no regrets…

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.

Living the dream! 😂

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

Yes . Just ignore them. They have no taste

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....

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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