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Living in a modern Sydney apartment offers the perfect balance between urban comfort and contemporary design. In 2025, more people are embracing sustainability, choosing natural materials, minimalist forms, and multifunctional furniture to create spaces that feel both stylish and responsible.

Beautiful furniture, made for real life. A beautiful home isn’t one that always looks perfectly styled. It’s one that feels lived in. There’s a coffee cup left on the dining table after the morning rush. A book waiting beside the bed. School bags dropped by the door. Toys finding their way onto the sideboard. And around it all, furniture quietly becomes part of everyday life. At Cedora, we believe good design should make room for these moments. Not just the ones we photograph. The ones we live. Mornings Are Rarely Picture Perfect The day starts. Coffee is poured. Breakfast lands on the table. Someone is looking for their keys while someone else is already running late. For a few minutes, the dining table becomes the centre of everything. The Richmond Dining Table, with its clean Modern Scandinavian character, creates a calm foundation for busy everyday living. Simple, warm and easy to style, it doesn’t need a perfectly set table to look at home. Sometimes a coffee cup, a bowl of fruit and the morning light are enough. Richmond Pine Dining Table 190cm - Natural Dinner for Six. And Sometimes Seven. Some nights, everyone makes it home for dinner. Other nights, a friend stays over. Someone pulls up another chair. Plates are passed around and conversations continue after the food is gone. The Byron Acacia Dining Table, available in 190cm and 240cm, gives these moments room to happen. Its warm timber character and relaxed Coastal Contemporary style feel particularly at home in Australian dining spaces - equally suited to an ordinary Wednesday dinner or a long Sunday lunch with family and friends. Because a dining table shouldn’t only look beautiful when nobody is using it. It should feel even better when everyone is. Byron Acacia Dining Table 240cm The Sideboard That Holds a Little Bit of Everything Keys. Serving pieces. A favourite vase. The mail you’ll deal with later. And, occasionally, the toys that need somewhere to disappear before guests arrive. The Oxford Sideboard brings Modern Coastal / Hamptons character to the room while giving everyday life somewhere to go. Style the surface beautifully when you want to. Let real life take over when you don’t. Good storage should make both possible. Oxford Acacia 4 Door 1 Drawer Sideboard The Quietest Part of the Day Then the house finally becomes still. A lamp is switched on. A phone is put down. A book waits on the bedside table, perhaps exactly where it was left the night before. The Liverpool Bedroom Collection brings a softer Contemporary Scandinavian feeling to these quieter moments. The Liverpool Bed Frame becomes the foundation of the room, while matching bedside and storage pieces keep the things you reach for every day close at hand. It doesn’t need much. Soft bedding. Warm light. A book beside the bed. A room that feels like somewhere you want to come back to at the end of the day. Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Natural Sunday Looks a Little Different There’s no alarm. Breakfast happens later. The dining table is filled slowly with coffee, food and familiar faces. Someone stays for lunch. Lunch becomes afternoon. Nobody is in much of a hurry to leave. These are the days when home feels full. And perhaps this is when furniture matters most - not because we notice it, but because we don’t have to think about it. The table simply has room. The sideboard holds what we need. The chairs are pulled closer. And the homework around the people inside it. Made for Real Homes We often see furniture in perfectly styled rooms. But that isn’t where it spends most of its life. It lives through morning rushes and quiet evenings. Family dinners and takeaway nights. Sunday lunches and Christmas gatherings. Books left open. Toys left out. Unexpected guests and one more chair pulled up to the table. Because beautiful furniture shouldn’t ask you to live carefully around it. It should become part of the way you live. Part of the mornings. Part of the mess. Part of the celebrations. Part of home. Designed for the Way We Live Beautiful furniture, made for real life. Discover furniture for dining, living and bedroom spaces across the Cedora Collections. Related Posts A Home Made for Living The 21cm That Decides Which Sideboard Works in Your Dining Room Where Life Gathers: The Table Australians Keep Coming Back To Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.

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Some of life’s best moments happen around the dining table. The first coffee of the morning.Breakfast before everyone rushes out the door. Homework spreads across one end of the table while dinner is being prepared at the other. It’s where we sit down for a quick weeknight meal and somehow stay talking long after the plates are empty. Where Sunday lunch turns into afternoon coffee. Where friends become family, birthdays are celebrated, and at Christmas, we always seem to find room for one more chair. A dining table may begin as a piece of furniture. But over time, it becomes part of the family. A Place for Everyday Moments Most memories aren’t made on special occasions. They’re made in the little moments that happen every day. A sleepy breakfast.An after-school snack. A cup of tea with someone you love. Dinner together after a long day. For these everyday moments, a 190cm dining table gives you room to gather while still feeling intimate. The Oxford Acacia Dining Table 190cm brings the relaxed warmth of Modern Coastal living into the home, while the Richmond Dining Table 190cm offers a clean, understated Modern Scandinavian feel. Different in character, but designed for the same thing: Bringing people together. When Everyone Comes Over Then there are the days when the house feels a little fuller. Someone brings dessert. Someone else arrives early. The kids are running between rooms, another bottle is opened, and somehow lunch lasts until sunset. These are the moments a generous dining table was made for. With more space to gather, a 240cm dining table gives everyone a place at the table - whether it’s Sunday lunch, Christmas Day or simply dinner with the people you don’t see often enough. The Byron Acacia Dining Table 240cm brings warm timber character and relaxed Coastal Contemporary style to these larger gatherings. For a lighter Modern Coastal setting, the Oxford Acacia Dining Table 240cm creates an equally generous place to come together. Because when everyone is home, having a little extra room matters. Byron Dining Table 240cm 190cm or 240cm? Perhaps the question isn’t simply, “Which size fits my dining room?” Maybe it’s: “How do I imagine living around it?” Choose 190cm for everyday family meals, morning coffees and smaller gatherings. Choose 240cm if yours is the home where everyone gathers - where dinners get bigger, celebrations get louder and there is always space for another guest. Choose the table that fits not only your room, but the life you want to create around it. Find the One That Feels Like Home For relaxed Coastal Contemporary living, discover the warmth of the Byron Dining Collection. For a refined Modern Coastal / Hamptons home, explore the Oxford Dining Collection. For understated Modern Scandinavian simplicity, meet the Richmond Dining Collection. Three different expressions of Australian living. All created around the same idea: Byron Acacia Dining Table 240cm A place to gather. More Than a Place to Eat Years from now, you may not remember every meal served at your dining table. But you’ll remember the people who sat around it. The birthdays. The Christmas lunches. Ordinary Tuesday nights. The conversations that went on were too long. And all those little moments that didn’t feel important at the time but somehow became the ones worth remembering. Because the heart of a home isn’t always a room. Sometimes, it’s simply the table we keep coming back to. Richmond Pine Dining Table 240cm - Black The Australian Dining Table More than a place to eat. A place to gather, connect and belong. Find a table that fits the way you live. Discover Cedora Dining Collections. Related Posts Six Seater or Eight Seater Dining Table? A Dining Bench Is 32cm Shorter Than the Table, and That Is Deliberate Are Dining Sets Worth Buying? Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.

Same space. Different character. A room doesn’t need to change completely to feel entirely new. The furniture you choose, the materials you introduce and the way you layer a space can transform its character. From relaxed Modern Coastal to pared-back Modern Scandinavian and timeless Classic Hamptons, one dining room can tell three very different stories. Here’s how to find the look that feels most like home. LOOK 01: Modern Coastal Relaxed, natural and made for easy living. Modern Coastal style takes its cues from the Australian lifestyle - light-filled spaces, natural textures and an effortless connection between indoors and out. Rather than filling the room with obvious coastal motifs, keep the palette soft and understated. Think warm timber, off-white upholstery, woven textures, natural linen and subtle organic shapes. At the centre of the room, choose a dining table with warmth and presence. The Oxford Acacia Dining Table is a natural fit. Its warm timber character and substantial proportions create a relaxed focal point while maintaining the refined feel associated with Modern Coastal interiors. Pair it with light upholstered dining chairs, a textured rug and an oversized ceramic vessel filled with native greenery. Complete the space with an Oxford Sideboard to bring practical storage and visual balance to the room. Cedora pieces to create the look Oxford Acacia Dining Table 190cm Oxford Acacia Dining Table 240cm Oxford Acacia 4 Door 1 Drawer Sideboard Oxford Acacia Side Table Styling palette:Warm timber · Soft white · Sand · Natural linen · Woven textures The feeling:Light. Relaxed. Refined. Perfect for a home that feels like summer, all year round. Oxford Acacia Dining Table 190cm LOOK 02: Modern Scandinavian Clean, warm and quietly considered. Modern Scandinavian interiors prove that simplicity doesn’t have to feel cold. The key is balancing clean lines and functional design with materials that introduce warmth and texture. Keep the room uncluttered and allow a few considered pieces to define the space. For this look, make the Richmond Dining Table the hero. Its clean silhouette and natural timber character give the room structure without overwhelming it, while the understated design makes it easy to layer with contemporary dining chairs and softer decorative elements. Continue the look with a Richmond Sideboard or Richmond Console Table, then introduce a neutral rug, sculptural ceramics, linen and a simple pendant above the dining table. Leave some negative space too. In Scandinavian-inspired interiors, what you leave out can be just as important as what you bring in. Cedora pieces to create the look Richmond Dining Table – Natural Richmond Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard - Natural Richmond Pine 2 Drawer Console Table - Natural For a stronger contrast, selected Richmond pieces in Black can introduce a more graphic, contemporary edge. Styling palette:Natural timber · Warm white · Oatmeal · Black accents · Soft neutrals The feeling:Calm. Functional. Effortless. For those who believe less can feel like more. Richmond Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard - Natural Richmond Pine End Table - Natural LOOK 03: Classic Hamptons Timeless, elegant and beautifully balanced. Classic Hamptons style brings a more structured sense of elegance to the home. Symmetry, generous proportions and refined detailing are central to the look, balanced by a soft neutral palette that keeps the room inviting rather than overly formal. This is where the London Collection comes into its own. While London is especially suited to creating a complete Classic Hamptons bedroom, its design language offers the perfect inspiration for carrying the look throughout the home: considered proportions, timeless detailing and a sophisticated yet comfortable character. For a Hamptons-inspired dining space, build around classic furniture silhouettes and layer the room with upholstered seating, soft neutral textiles and elegant accessories. Add a large statement pendant above the table, introduce ceramic or glass décor and keep styling balanced on either side of the room. If you want to carry the same aesthetic into the bedroom, the London Bed Frame creates a strong Hamptons focal point, complemented by matching bedside and storage pieces. Cedora pieces to create the look London Pine Bed Frames London Pine 2 Drawer Bedside Table London Classic Hamptons collection Styling palette:Crisp white · Warm neutral · Soft grey · Natural timber · Classic detailing The feeling:Elegant. Comfortable. Timeless. Classic style, designed for the way we live today. London Pine Queen Bed Frame with 2 Drawers Same Room. Your Style. There is no single formula for creating a beautiful home. You might be drawn to the relaxed warmth of Modern Coastal, the quiet simplicity of Modern Scandinavian, or the timeless elegance of Classic Hamptons. The difference often comes down to a few considered choices - the shape of a table, the warmth of timber, the texture of a chair or the way accessories are layered around the room. Start with the piece that speaks to you. Then build your room around it. One Room. Three Ways. Same space. Different character. Discover the Cedora collections and find the style that feels like home. 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