Last week I asked if you would sleep outdoors to escape the heat. After chatting with a few friends about the topic one of them remarked that they switch sleeping quarters seasonally to take advantage of the natural thermal comfort of their home. Do you change bedrooms with the seasons?
I know that switching rooms is really isn't possible for those of us who live in one bedroom apartments, but I think the idea can be applied almost everywhere. Do you move your bed seasonally? Closer to the window in the summer and on a warm wall in the winter? Do you change out your window treatments to best take advantage of light and thermal control?
It seems there are enormous possibilities if we looked at our spaces as less static and more able to change according to the seasons.
How does your bedroom change for the seasons?
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Well, I dragged my mattress downstairs and have been sleeping on the kitchen floor for a month. So I guess that puts me in the 'yes' category! lol.
I think it a typical home with a master bedroom its not as easy. As a kid, I would have loved if my parents offered for my brothers and I to switch rooms periodically. Everything feels cooler in a room once things are moved around from the norm.
My mom's bedroom is on the third floor of the house, with windows that face the West. This year she decided to move to the other room up there, with the windows facing East. While she misses her main bedroom, being cooler and dealing with the sun while it rises just makes more sense.
We put the AC unit in the "den," because we can take shelter in there when it's ghastly out. If it's too hot to sleep, we sleep in there too. Much more affordable than cooling the whole house.
I sleep on the first floor during the summer (in a north face room that stays quite cool) and the second floor in winter, so yes, I do that.
No, not now! But when my husband and I moved into our first place, a one-bedroom apartment with the only AC unit in the living room, we spent many a summer night on the couches because the bedroom was just too darn hot.
No central air in our house now, but our bedroom is on the north side of the house and naturally stays pretty cool, and we finally have an window AC unit for when it gets really hot out.
My old house heated up like an oven in the summer, and sometimes running a fan wasn't enough.
From late July to late August, it was so hot that I slept downstairs on the couch. The living room got less direct sunlight than any other room in the house and had a tile floor, so it was much cooler than the (carpeted, upstairs) bedroom. Worked for me!
Yes. We live in a loft so it's easier to move things around than if we actually switched "real" bedrooms.
Once we finish our basement, we'll plan to sleep in that bedroom during hot summer months. The rest of the year, we'll use our normal bedroom on the main floor.
I have a big comforter on the bed in winter and I have to stuff that sucker under the bed in summer but it takes up so much space.
Our master bedroom is in the remodeled attic of our 1930's farmhouse. It is miserable in the hottest months of summer! So, we retreat to our teeny cave of a guest bedroom on the first floor in the summer. Either way we have to run a window air conditioner, but we run it less this way.
We all do this in a smaller way: flannel sheets in the winter, cotton in the summer, changing out our summer decor for our winter decor (and adding candles in lieu of fresh flowers). Most of us don't go to the extent of moving furniture, but I love the idea!