Would you buy a house with North East garden?

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I need help as I am driving myself insane knowing what to do for the best!!! We are currently looking for our long term family home and for nearly a year have not found anything suitable (we are used to renovating property and having everything to our tastes so seem to have become quite picky) but we now have two DC in tow so want an easier life!!! We have found a property on a new build estate, it is a 4 bed detached with lovely big kitchen/dining living area, with a detached double garage (with a private area for seating in between the garage and the front of the house, about 15ftx15ft ) looking out of to a tree lined pond. We did think we wanted a big garden (but had a wish list as long as our arm) however the garden on the property is 30ft in length by about 25ft in width, this seems small in comparison to what we had envisioned but the inside of the house works well, is at the end of a small cul-de-sac with no through traffic and has green space nearby. Please help!!! Will I forever be regretting this, I am terribly worried that the back garden will be small, dark and dingy!!!

Our house has a North facing garden. It gets the sun in the morning, and shade in the afternoon. This isn’t ideal for sitting out in the evenings, but the house ticked so many other boxes (right village, non-estate, barn conversion etc etc) that we decided we could live with the garden. We are not green-fingered, so growing stuff wasn’t a consideration for us.

I would at a push for the right house- but not without green space nearby, which you have. You can definately have a lovely garden with the right planting - NE means you can use lots of plants that would shrivel in a S facing. Invest in a proper lawn though - newbuilds can suffer compacted soil from the construction work that is then very cosmetically seeded/turfed without proper drainage or the right type of grass.

I agree about preparing the soil for grass. It’s vital and keep moss under control.

I discounted North and East facing gardens. My other half thought I was insane at the time. But take today, we have lots of snow forecast this weekend, but even still, it's glorious sunshine today and I've sat outside at points. I wouldn't have been able to do this if I lived across the road. But it really does boil down to what's important to you. I'd lived in a flat for 16 years so knew when I finally got a garden I wanted it to be perfect! A south/west facing unoverlooked garden will always be top of my list if we ever move.

Our garden is north -east facing and it really isn't too bad. It gets sun early in the summer about 8 am but it disappears about 4pm. In spring/autumn its more like 10 - 5 for sun hours. A lot of it does depend on how the garage and neighbours sit though.

These threads about North facing gardens are often full of doom and gloom. We had a small and overlooked NE facing garden previously.
There was no sun from mid October until March but the garden was flooded with sunlight for the rest of the year. We had a little patio at the end of the garden for the early sun-rays of the year but by summer time we would be closer to the house as the end of the garden would get too hot. Most of the garden would be in the sun until mid/ late afternoon in the summer.
Location also plays a part in that our house was at the top of a slope, it may be that houses at the bottom didn't get as much light as ours.