The majority of the windows in my house face a view to the west, so sunset is a particularly pretty time. Otherwise, I like all of the rooms all of the time. The rooms are bright and cheerful with sunlight during the day and warm and cozy with artificial light at night. I do regret that it is seldom cold enough for a fire in the fireplace.

Even though I live in a 1950s ranch, my house is pretty bright in the daytime. The previous owners put a skylight in the kitchen, which Is great. I almost never need to turn on lights during the day.

I love my house at night. If we're having guests, I like to light lots of candles. In the winter, a fire in the fireplace is so nice, and really, everyone looks better by candlelight!

I love sunlight, so I love day light...especially early morning light in my living room and breakfast area.

Now that you mention it, I might like the ambiance in the master if I cozied up the lighting a little...hmmmm....

My favorite is at night when all the lamps are on and the rooms just feel that more cozy. You might say I am lamp obsessed. They space out the light at the perfect level and create such a soft glow.

Plus at night you cannot see all of the pet hair unlike in the day when the sun is streaming in making it just seem to glow, but not in a good way! ha

Amy

Amy, same here. Even though I love the sun shining in I don't love what it reveals. :(

As the sun goes down, esp. in Summer and Fall, love the glow.

The front of my house has many east and south facing windows, so I get lots of great sunlit rooms during the day. The back of my house faces south and west with a room that has three walls of windows facing the some woods as well as the bay. It is gorgeous at sunset. Nighttime there is no particular ambiance unless it's a cool night with the windows open and we can hear crickets chirping and occasionally, the foghorn blowing.

Happy, I forgot about the morning sun in our LR. Morning sun period, is the best sun of the day, IMO.

Fourkids, I have two large south facing windows and in the winter the sun streams through, but in the summer, no sun at all.

Amy, years ago when a friend remodeled their house I went over there to take a look. She had lamps on in the daytime! I'd never heard of such a thing! lol. But our former LR was bright all day long.

I came home and told my dh how cozy the room was in the daytime because of the lamps.

When we added-on and built a living room, although it has lots of windows, the furniture floats and I still have to turn lamps on in the daytime. But I love the look. The LR has a total of 6 lamps of various size and shapes, not including ceiling and can lights.

Schoolhouse, that's interesting you say dusk. That's the time of day I close the shutters. There's something about dusk I don't like. I don't know what it is, but I don't like it! lol