Originally Posted by
Daylesewblessed
For me, it is too hot in the afternoons. The sewing room has windows on the west side and by afternoon, it is better for me to just close the door to that room and work somewhere else.
I have large windows on the east and south side of my house, and the sun beats in there every morning. Now the trees I have planted there work very well at keeping out the heat, but before they grew big enough, I had "solar curtains" on those windows. I got them from Starcrest of California more than 20 years ago. They look like aluminum foil, but are plastic. They let light through and you can see out a little, but not much. (I don't know if you can buy them anymore. You'd have to call the company.) I put the shiny side toward the sun and it was amazing how cool that room was on a hot summer day.
Now we have geothermal heat which gives us free AC. We keep the house at 76 in the summer, so here in Wisconsin, the AC doesn't run much.