Ten Things That Matter the Most

South Facing Pools vs. North Facing Pools – What’s the Difference?

Ask any real estate agent what’s important in a property and they will say location, location, and location. Push them more and you might get orientation.

Orientation matters.

Let’s be POSH. Maybe …

There’s a theory that the word Posh comes from the acronym Port Out Starboard Home. It’s a popular idea that in the grand days of ocean travel (before planes whisked us across the Atlantic) wealthy people would travel on the port (left) side of the ship when sailing west from Europe to America. They would then travel on the starboard (right) side of the ship when sailing their homeward leg eastbound America to Europe. This put their cabin balcony in the sun all day on both legs of the journey.

Is it true? Weeelllll … there’s also a theory that the word Posh comes from the acronym Port Out Starboard Home when wealthy passengers would travel from Great Britain to the Indian continent. Being on the port side while sailing east would keep them on the cooler side of the ship. Coming home on the starboard side of the ship would do the same on the return journey.

Read into it what you will. I searched and searched for the answer to the question of whether the word Posh comes from here. I couldn’t find anything. It’s a nice story though.

What it does tell us is that in the northern hemisphere (Florida) the sun is in the south. If you want a pool and deck that get all day sunshine they need to face south. Any real estate agent will tell you the same.

Does this mean that north facing pools are bad? Not at all, just that you need to be a bit more careful as typically the house itself casts a shadow across the pool and deck. Less so for single storey villas. More so for two storey villas.