My new conservatory is too dark

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I'm half way through a conservatory build...
solid roof just on and walls and windows doors up.

I'm in a semi detached house so 2 shared walls

Wall1 and wall 2 are shared with neighbour or part of my house so won't change
Wall 3 big glass doors to garden... very little brick very happy with this

Wall4 ... partial brick (50%) and 1 window to garden ... I think I have made a massive mistake by opting for brick.

Room is too dark and gloomy and line of vision to garden interrupted too much

I don't think adding roof windows will help as it is also a line of vision thing

My question is ... how difficult or costly would it be to change wall 4... to remove as much brick as possible (maybe leave dwarf walls only) and have a lot bigger window ?

Should I pause the build and change now
Or
Let the build finish and see how it looks all done and painted

If you needed planning for the build, you might not have been allowed more glass anyway - I think they have rules about % glass you’re allowed these days for energy efficiency reasons. It’ll look much bigger and brighter when painted so definitely don’t worry too much. Could you also get some really big mirrors that are sort of window shaped to bounce some more light around? The wall will also make it all cosier and cheaper to heat in the winter (and less likely to overheat in the summer)

Our architect mentioned about % of glass allowed but I didn’t fully appreciate what he was talking about exactly. He went on to say that we could get round it by insulating our roof more. In the end we didn’t need to we just reduced the size of one of our window and we were in the %.

Our new extension looked dark until we painted ceiling etc. I wasn’t worried cos I knew it had lots of windows facing east, west, north, skylights and no buildings or trees to block the light. It’s beautifully bright and sunny.