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Originally Posted by tomwed
Now I think it's a game changer, morning sun, afternoon shade.
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I don't think lanai direction matters much. You can add sun screen shades, that's what we did with our west facing lanai. We found it made a difference. Insulating the roof over the lanai helped too... ours had no insulation at all... don't know about newer houses.
But during the really hot parts of the summer if you don't enclose your lanai and add an A/C there will be a month or two you probably won't use your lanai no matter which way it faces. In the winter time an open lanai gets pretty chilly for a couple of months too... no matter which way it faces.
Of course it's totally up to you, part of the house hunting adventure, but would you really want to pass up a house that had just about everything you wanted except that it has a west facing lanai?