When I first was looking for a home, one of the top things on my list was finding a place that had entirely awesome outdoor spaces to spend time in.
I care about working somewhere that I can see nature.
I like to hear pigeons while I am doing mundane jobs. I like to look up and see the trees and leaves blowing in the breeze. What I hate to do, is to bake in the sun. This is exactly the situation that I was presented with after I had bought my home. I bought the house because it had a entirely cool sunroom attached to the rear. I knew that I would get a lot of use out of this Four Seasons room, because it was so immersed in the deep woods behind my house. What a beautiful place to work. Except, it’s not so good when the afternoon sun is pounding down on the structure, bringing in tons of radiant heat. I realized pretty quickly that there were only certain hours I could work in this room if I didn’t want to sweat to death. By about 11 a.m. everyday the temperature was climbing towards 95 degrees outside, and the temperature was undoubtedly reaching 100 inside. There was an overhead fan in the space, but it didn’t do much except to blow the tepid and humid air around. I entirely wanted to get an AC device to help repair things, but a window device wouldn’t fit in the space. I called out my local Heating, Ventilation and A/C serviceman and ask him what I could possibly do to make this room more usable year-round. He looks up in a corner inquisitively, and asked if I knew what that air vent was. I had no idea. He started digging around in the air ducts and pretty quickly realized that it was somehow attached to the sun room. The room was just restrained off. He thought that this measure was to improve airflow in the rest of the house! Once the air ducts were cleared, cool fresh air started flowing into my sunroom. What a cheap fix.