@digitS, we are situated with the front of the house pretty much due north. The garage steals my morning sunshine, although there are a few rays that make it through both the garage window and the small window in my kitchen door, but that is when the sun is lower in the sky.
To make it even harder -- as if living in the woods isn't hard enough -- we built the house with a two-foot overhang. That keeps the summer sun from heating up the house, but allows the winter sun in. Good thinking from a financial viewpoint, but I miss sunshine lighting up the house. Almost the only sun I get inside the house is from the west, because the garden, the field, and lots of windows are on that side (all bedroom windows).
Don't get me started on the bathrooms!
Still, I'm not complaining so much as celebrating my short visit from the sun. I don't get much sun inside, but I have all the room outside I need to play in the it.
