Designing your home

Perhaps this posting is not part of cultural experiences but if you keep your home cool then the relationship will benefit?  This is a list of recommendations when designing your home in the Philippines. North facing:  Kitchen Lounge.  East facing:  bedrooms and bathrooms, (arise to the sunshine) (cool afternoons for naps) South facing: gardens open patios grow shade trees, dappled sunshine very pleasant. West facing: Laundry area, wash in the cool mornings then hang by noontime for drying. Louvre windows allow more air into the rooms for the same size ordinary slide type buy long ones ie cool air in the lower part and hot air out of the top.  I remember words about living on a boat in the UK specially when the winter draws in...keep her warm and cosy for happiness, but here it,s keep HIM cool for happiness.haha

Peter I like the way you explain how to keep happy with weather i take it, but not every way you can get cool brizes in after noon or night times, maybe where you are you can, you lucky but, my house is well thought of from the start, yes we do not get afternoon sun, as i have not even put any window on that side apart from stairwell windows which a small any way, I can run from sun, but can not really run from humidity.