China's house extends from left to right.
In China, whether it is a typical quadrangle or an ordinary house, when building a house, most of them take the main entrance as the center and spread out to the left and right. After entering the door, they all enter the room left or right, and rarely go deep.
In this way, if the house faces south, every room has a south-facing window or a south-facing side. In winter, the sunlight from the south will shine obliquely into the room, making it warm and comfortable.
In summer, the sun moves north, the head shines, and the sun can't shine into the room all day, so it feels cooler. In addition, in China, the south wind blows in summer and the north wind blows in winter. The house with south windows is unique and everyone likes it.
Houses in Canada extend inward.
In Canada, there are not many houses built on the left and right sides, and most of them extend in depth.
From the front, the facade is not very big, especially the newly built houses are narrow and long, and the houses with wide facades (that is, large ones) are rare and much more expensive.
Another feature of Canadian houses is that most garages are built in front. Many houses with double garages have a front door next to two garage doors when viewed from the front. If such a house faces south, and the sunny side of the main floor is the garage, the kitchen behind the garage or the family hall (kitchen and family hall are the places where family activities are the most), then it must be north? Therefore, China's experience may not be useful in Canada.
In Canada, most houses extend in depth. From the front, the facade is not very big, especially the newly-built houses are long and narrow.
It is more suitable for the house to face north.
If the house faces south, the situation is just the opposite. The family hall, kitchen, master bedroom upstairs or one or two other bedrooms all face south. In the long winter in Canada, it is warm and comfortable for the sun to shine in these rooms with many family activities. So when you come to Canada, do as the Romans do. You don't have to sit in the main room facing south. Maybe it's more appropriate to sit in a house facing south.
Locals like to sit west facing east.
When it comes to westerners who do as the Romans do and live in the local area for a long time, they prefer east-west houses, especially those with western backyards. Why? Because many of them like sunbathing, on sunny weekends in summer, they either go shirtless or wear bikinis and sunbathe in their backyard. In their view, this is the enjoyment of life.
But nine times out of ten people in China don't like the house with the back garden facing west. Is this the reason? It's west oblique! In China, the rooms facing west are too hot to stay in summer, and the furniture is still hot in the middle of the night. In Canada, a house with a backyard facing west will be hotter in summer, unless there are big trees in the backyard to keep out the hot and toxic sun.
It is warm in the west in winter.
But in winter, the advantage of the house with the back garden facing west is unparalleled. Winter in Canada is very long. In winter, the sky is often blue and the sun is shining, but it's freezing outside. In this weather, going home from work, or staying in the lobby facing west every weekend, after noon, or busy doing housework and bathing in the sun in the kitchen facing west, this kind of warm and comfortable energy is unmatched by other houses and incomparable.
In addition, in the Toronto area, the main wind direction is the west wind all the year round. Open the window in summer to welcome the west wind and enjoy the cool air, and close the window in winter to block the northwest cold current. In winter, what is more comfortable than sitting in a sunny room?
Some people don't like sunbathing, but they especially like the house with the back garden facing west. Why? It's like this: in a house facing east and west, sunshine shines into the room in the morning and afternoon. Unlike a north-south house, there is always one side that doesn't shine and feels cold. In summer, houses facing west will be exposed to the sun in the afternoon, but there are ways to solve the problem, such as setting up an umbrella, setting up an arbor, or planting two trees in the northwest corner of the backyard. Besides, in Canada, once the sun goes down, it won't be hot, and the west tilt is not a big problem.
Daylighting is more important than anything else.
Many friends will ask when buying a house for the first time: how to choose the orientation of the house?
In fact, the simple orientation of the house in Toronto is not the most important thing, but the lighting of the house is important. China's theory that you must sit facing south doesn't work here, unless you only pay attention to Feng Shui and ignore other factors such as ventilation!
The characteristics of Duolun's houses are different from those in China and the United States, and even houses in Vancouver and Calgary are different from here. Mainly because the houses here have the characteristics of North American houses, but because the density of houses here is higher than other places, some houses are very small, so they have their own characteristics. The structural layout of each type of real estate and its relationship with adjacent houses are completely different.
What orientation should I choose?
There are few rooms that are transparent from north to south here. Therefore, the lighting of the main window of the room is particularly important. Generally speaking, the main windows facing south are better than facing east, facing east is better than facing west, and facing west is better than facing north; But there are two exceptions: one is that some descendants of Europeans prefer to face the west; In addition, the scenery outside the room window is also very important. Sometimes the influence of scenery is greater than orientation. For example, there is a very beautiful golf course outside the window. Imagine it.