Best way to cool a boiling kitchen in summer?

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We are planning to put our house on the market this Spring. Our kitchen is completely south facing and the last two summers have been unbearable - I simply cannot describe the heat in there. Like a sauna. Even with three tall fans the air was thick with heat as the room is bathed in sunshine all day (sounds nice but I was trying to wean a baby and having to feed her in a sliver of shade behind the fridge). It is STIFLING.

I know this level of heat would be really off putting for viewers if they end up coming in the summer. Any ideas as to what we can do? We have patio doors onto the garden so have considered a (modern) awning, blinds or some sort of better cooling fan. I'm loathe to spend too much money but it really will be a problem (and I will be heavily pregnant and can't go through a summer with that sort of heat!) Would an awning really make the room cooler? Blinds would be cheaper but they would block view of garden and be less practical in terms of having doors to garden open both for viewings and for our toddler.

If anyone has any brain waves I'd be really grateful!

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Will definitely look at this, thanks - only concern is the big metal poles we would need to put in. When you don't need the sail shade, do they come down I wonder?

@ALemonEntryDearWatson

You can have air con fitted in the room for about 1500 quid! Far cheaper than the 3k for other solutions you're considering

We did discuss this but kitchen isn't huge and have very limited wall space that could house air con and vent to outside.

I am somewhere hot with and am south facing. We have blinds on the windows that pull down and stay where you want them, bit like a roller blind, and they help a lot since i can just block out the windows where the sun is if that make sense. They are not sufficent here on their own but make a huge difference.

I just remembered this morning that I have a fan heater built into my kick board beneath the oven an this also has a cool function. Probably not much more useful than a fan but at least it's not visible.

The company linked above (Primrose) has some very affordable awnings if you choose the simpler models

People are conditioned to think positively about south facing and warm kitchens so I don’t know if you will actually have that much trouble