Big bedroom facing street or smaller bedroom facing garden?

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One bedroom faces south onto the street, and our smaller bedroom faces north onto the garden. Both rooms comfortably fit king size beds.

Which room would you choose as your main bedroom? The garden is lovely and peaceful but street is also quiet.

Bigger one to accommodate wardrobes, bedside chest of drawers etc.

Which do you like?

Does one of them have a better layout (i.e. window and door positions and how they effect how the room can be layed out)?

For me I also prefer to be away from the morning sun.

Doh! I've just seen you said larger room is south facing and smaller is north facing - I'd take the smaller one because I hate morning sun (even with blackout blinds and curtains some gets in).

What will the other room be used for?

We chose the bedroom overlooking the garden, but street light directly outside front and a busier road.

We always took the smaller room, as we only used it for bed-related* activities, whereas the kids could use the larger rooms as play-areas and later on for study.

*99.9% of which was sleeping!

I've got the north-facing smaller room facing the garden. DS has the bigger one at the front.

I love my room. On the odd occasions I have coffee in bed in the morning I can sit up in bed and look out of the window at the trees. I'm rarely in there during the daytime but when I am I just take a moment and look at the garden.

which direction do they face? I would not sleep in a south or west facing garden as in my experience they get boiling hot in the summer!

But I would go for garden over street.

Another vote for the garden side. We sleep in the smaller double overlooking the garden. It’s much quieter and was wonderfully cool in the hot summer.
We have fitted wardrobes in both so storage was not an issue.

Garden for sure.

are they the same shape? A smaller but squarer room can lend itself much better to big wardrobes/built in storage

I chose the smaller back bedroom partly because the front room faces east and I didn't want to be woken early by the sun in the summer. It is also quieter. I live on a quiet street, but occasionally my neighbour will tell me she's been disturbed by people being rowdy, and I haven't heard anything.

I'd choose the south room because I'd like the sunlight to help me wake up in the morning.

We’ve got the smaller room overlooking our garden. Dd has the ‘master’ bedroom at the front.

South and east facing rooms are much hotter in summer than east and (obviously) north facing.

If you have blackout blinds/lining there’s not reason the sun would wake you - we are in an east facing room and it’s fine, and also slightly cooler than DD’s west facing room which is an absolute oven.

We chose the smaller back bedroom. Is much quieter.

We have this but with opposite-facing rooms. We use the big, north-facing front bedroom (mainly because it has built-in wardrobes), but we are in a very quiet cul-de-sac so road noise isn't really an issue. If it were I would probably go for the back.

I'd happily swap if necessary though, I love the view of the garden from the back room.

I’d go for the garden-facing room, but suggest you try out both before you decide.

Garden-facing definitely. No street lights, car lights, bin collection noise, people chatting.

Garden, darker and quieter, also north facing but plenty light enough and DD has big room at front for her friends to hang out.

Garden facing, definitely. I have a large bedroom which faces the road and is lovely but I sleep in the small bedroom at the back, quieter, cosier.

Last house we chose the north facing over the garden with fields behind. It was smaller than the south facing , to the road one but I hate being woken up by sunlight glaring through, early bin pick ups and doors slamming when people are off to work before I'm awake. I chose not to be a grouch

Objectively, I’d try both for a week and see which I preferred. It depends on a lot of things- how quiet the street is, which room is warmer, what the decor is.

Totally subjectively, I tend to prefer sleeping at the back of the house. All my bedrooms as a kid were at the back of the house so it feels right to me.

We chose the back bedroom in that situation. Love being able to look out at the open sky as and not as overlooked as at the front. Also meant we've been able to keep the fitted wardrobes in the front bedroom for storage.

In a similar situation here and we choose the street side. The street is quiet, an vs when we are propped up in bed with tea of a morning and the curtains open we can see houses but are not directly in anyone's line of sight. Ours is a lovely low bay window whereas the window over looking the garden is smaller, higher, and the room is less nice to spend leisure time in. Right choice for us.