Find the Wall First: A Midstream Elevation Finder
On a Midstream stand with nothing shading it, the elevation a room sits on decides more than fabric or budget. Choose the wall and read our call for it. Your own house may differ, which is what the free measure is for.
Facing north
The wall you want two things from. A decent eave carries most of December, but by June the sun has dropped to about 40 degrees and comes straight in as free heat. Fit something you can tune, not something you can only drop: a day/night blind, or sunscreen mesh in a living room.
Facing east
A cold house and an early sunrise over a low, open horizon. This is a sleep-and-glare problem, not a heat problem. Bedrooms get a blockout roller with side channels, or blockout cellular for warmth as well; the breakfast side can stay clear behind a light sunscreen.
Facing south
Steady light and a cold corner. There is barely any direct sun for most of the year, so shading is seldom the issue; losing heat through a big pane on a clear winter night is, especially on low ground. Insulate it with a cellular blind instead of shading it.
Facing west
The room you stop using at four. From three o'clock the sun is low and close to horizontal, on the side that usually faces the garden. Indoors the serious answer is a low-openness sunscreen roller, on a motor schedule so it drops before the pane heats up.
The full reasoning, wall by wall, is in the shading guide.
Reviewed November 2026 for Midstream.
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