Do you have sun-block tinting on the east-facing windows?  You might consider the kind that blocks UV-A and UV-B without blocking significant visible light.  The down-side is that if you have plants in the sunroom, you may need to install grow lights after applying the UV-block tinting. 

I'd recommend that you talk with a company that does the tint application for a recommendation of a film that meets your expectations, and get one window done so that you can see the effect.   

The window shades were ordered before I made the post.  I was just venting on my own shortsightedness.  I should have foreseen this from the beginning.  The sun has been going on like this for quite a while now.

If you think thigs are going well...it is obvious that you are overlooking something.  One of my life lessons after 70 years

I guess I’m a slow learner.  The life lessons have not kept pace with me and I’m 74.

Worse part of being older is forgetting what you’re forgetting

That explains why I keep finding mugs in the freezer! ;-)

Not sure, why but I know a LOT of people who would kill to be able to eat breakfast in a room with direct morning sunlight. Even better, a terrace with one.

We have a small "coffer table" just below the window in our bedroom for that exact purpose.

Onto the issue:
Did you consider just changing the seating instead, so you do not (have to) sit "facing" the rising Sun ?

Secondly, while you missed the east part, make sure to not miss that the Sun rises at different times and at different places/angles in summer and in winter. So what may be an annoying angle today, may be just very nice and romantic/pleasant eperience during the summer periods.

My 2c.

Another solution would be to have breakfast earlier and you could view the sunrise. 

Make it a feature instead of a problem. 

Ron

If you think things are going well...it is obvious that you are overlooking something. 

Now that's hilarious...

FWIW...a good 25+ years ago Marvin was the first to offer a switchable privacy window and partnered with 3M to produce the film needed to install inside their casement windows. It was a great idea but too far ahead of the "customize your own window" curve to be very successful. Marvin was also offering, at the same time, motorized casements windows that could be programmed to close at a specific time of day or they would close automatically when the rain sensor was activated, similar to current Velux skylights.

The nice feature with the switchable privacy window is that it could be manually switched or it could be programmed to actuate at various hours of the day. So in your case Packard, sunlight spills in until 7:00 AM then privacy until 8:00 AM and then after that the sun returns. 

Thinking about that a little more, I wonder if there is some commercial film that's available to apply to the window in this day & age, that'd just make sense.

Here's an example of the current Marvin product, they're partnering with Polytronix.

Window on, window off.

I did the traditional with cords.  The cordless appealed to me, but the counter (20” deep) would have made the shades largely unreachable.

Interior mount.  I’ll post an image showing a wider view of the room.

I’m working on the foot rail/ledge and that should be done tonight but adding the finish will require additional days.

That explains why I keep finding mugs in the freezer! ;-)

Hehe, guess some of us age in reverse. I managed to learn not "storing" things in the freezer only when around 30. In my 20s I was pretty good at "storing" my mobile there ... among other things.
Still hard at studying on how not to store stuff in the fridge ...

I think the "where did I forget it" more reflects a person "dropping" all the unimportant information. I very much remember "forgetting" where did I place that and that when I was in my teens. And it was definitely not due to a bad memory.


These days, when I try to up-move "junior" folks to a "senior" thinking, I start by saying:
"The speed how one moves up the knowledge ladder is not determined by their ability to learn and remember. It is determined by their ability to recognize and forget the unimportant. For that is what allows them to remember the important."


I think as people get older we unconsciously get better at identifying and forgetting the unimportant. Eventually we get so good we start forgetting the important.

Hopefully it's only a problem a few weeks of the year.  In my office, we're currently in the pre-solstice weeks where I need to close the drapes if it's sunny between 8:30 AM and 11 AM, but that will end soon and start again in early January, IIRC.

It's pretty amazing how much the sun has "moved" in where it comes into our east-facing living room in the morning compared to where it hit in the height of summer.  A gentle reminder of the changing of the seasons and the tilt of our planet.

Even when it does move up/down at different times of day, it still does it in different places too.
At my house, the only time the sun is annoying to me is around 4:00 in the afternoon in the late fall/winter. This is because of the lower southern trajectory. During the summer, when it is at the same height above the horizon, it is much further west. Then it gets blocked by the house next door.....yes we are that close together.

The zoning where I live calls for a 50 foot setback, or 100 feet minimum between houses, and the windows facing an adjacent home has to be 5 feet from the floor.  If good fences make good neighbors and there is no fence, then 100 feet of separation is the next best thing.
...

Over here, we have 7 meters between houses, but there is a possibility for exception of a house even all the way to the plot boundary - if one agrees with the neighbour. Then windows or vents are prohibited on that side of the building ...

The idea is that almost all land here is arable and arable land should not be "wasted" for towns/villages but put to a better (agricultural) use. So building plots are way smaller than I see common in US.

Side benefit is one does not require a car to move around as the towns/quarter are dense-enough for school/grocery/etc being a walking distance.
 

My order for the double honeycomb blinds arrived a couple of days ago.  This morning was the first time we had bright sun since then.

The honeycombs are made from some sort of textured resin that allows light through.  The honeycomb is supposed to add insulation; the double honeycomb is supposed to add more. 

The single honeycomb filters the light through two layers of plastic film; the double filters it through 3 layers.  I opted for the double honeycomb on the theory that greater light dispersion would make the direct sun more tolerable.

For some reason I cannot get the images to appear in the post.  The links work though.  I’ll have to figure this out.

https://i.imgur.com/tOqmWXn.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/6osMteL.jpg

The camera is not able to record the full range of lighting.  I have edited it to most accurately show the amount of light in the room, so the shade looked blown out.

The room remains bright and sun-filled.  I will check later and see how much it actually darkens the room with no direct sun.

The shades are easier to hang than roller shades.  Like roller shades the brackets need to be mounted with both clips identical for up/down and fore/aft, but unlike roller shades the distance between brackets is variable.  This greatly simplifies installation.

The brackets can clip on to the channel that is part of the top of the shade and runs the full width.  I placed mine about 5 - 6 inches from each end.  The shade installs with a satisfying click, so there is no ambiguity on whether it is attached or not.

The shades were surprisingly expensive.  I thought they would be $50.00 to $70.00 each.  But closer to $125.00 each from Blinds.com.

They operate smoothly and appear to be of good quality.