Thirteen Designs, Two Finishes, and One Range for the Whole Open Plan Level

Count the contemporary range and you get 26 products. Count the actual designs and you get 13, because every single one is offered in exactly two finishes and nothing else. No piece exists in only one colour, and no piece exists in three.

That sounds like a small detail and it changes how you shop. In most catalogues the finish is a per item decision, which is why so many living rooms end up with three timber tones. Here the decision happens once, and then the whole open plan level follows it.

Key Takeaways

• Twenty six products, thirteen designs, each offered in natural and black.
• Everything that goes against a wall comes in two sizes: 180 or 130, 180 or 140, 190 or 240.
• Sideboards and TV units are both 46cm deep, so they line up on the same wall.
• The range covers dining and living completely and does not touch the bedroom.
• The TV unit is 56cm high and the sideboard 76cm, a deliberate 20cm gap.

Twenty Six Products, Thirteen Designs

The list is short enough to hold in your head: two dining tables, three dining sets, one chair, two sideboards, two TV units, one console, one coffee table and one end table. Thirteen things. Multiply by natural and black and you have the whole range.

Every piece is built the same way, a solid pine frame with an oak veneer, with softly rounded corners and either a recessed finger pull or a slim brass finished bar. That consistency is the reason the range works as a set rather than a shelf of options, and it is also why two pieces bought a year apart still look related.

What it means practically is that the hard decision is the finish, not the pieces. Pick natural or black first, and every subsequent purchase is just a question of what the room still needs. Most people do it the other way around, choosing pieces one at a time, and that is how a living room ends up with a black TV unit and a natural coffee table looking like an accident.

Two Sizes of Everything That Goes Against a Wall

Three categories in the range come in a long version and a short version, and in each case the difference is width alone. The Liverpool Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard - Natural is 180cm and the Liverpool Pine 2 Door 2 Drawer Sideboard - Black is 130cm, both 46cm deep and 76cm high.

The TV units work the same way. The Liverpool Pine 2 Door 1 Drawer TV Unit 180cm - Natural runs 180cm with a drawer between two cupboards, and the Liverpool Pine 2 Door TV Unit 140cm - Black drops to 140cm and loses the drawer. Same 46cm depth, same 56cm height, 40cm less wall.

Dining follows the pattern with the Liverpool Pine Dining Table 190cm - Natural and the 240cm version, the latter running 110cm across the top, which is wider than any other table in the catalogue. In a room where the table is the only thing between the kitchen and the couch, that extra width is what stops the middle of the table becoming unreachable storage.

Liverpool Pine 2 Door 1 Drawer TV Unit 180cm - Natural

Forty Six Centimetres Is the Number That Lines It Up

Both the sideboards and the TV units are 46cm deep. In an open plan room where one runs along the dining end and the other along the living end, often on the same continuous wall, that shared number is what makes the two read as one built in run rather than two separate purchases pushed together.

The height difference between them is deliberate too. A sideboard at 76cm is a serving surface, level with the dining table. A TV unit at 56cm is 20cm lower, because a television sitting on top of a 76cm cabinet ends up above comfortable eye level for anyone on a sofa. Both numbers are doing a job.

Plan the walkway from 46cm, not from the width. Here is the test your room will actually be put through: it is a Saturday, six people are over, someone is carrying two plates from the kitchen and someone else is reversing out of a dining chair at the same moment. Forty six centimetres off the wall plus a pulled out chair is most of two metres, and if the room cannot give you that, the two of you do the shuffle every single time.

That is the measurement that decides whether an open plan level feels generous or permanently crowded, and it is the one nobody checks before ordering. Width you can see in a photo. Depth you only discover the first time you host.

Liverpool Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard - Black

The Living Half: Coffee, Console and End Table

Three pieces cover the soft end of the room. The Liverpool Pine Coffee Table - Natural is 130 x 70 x 45cm, which is a large coffee table by Australian standards and sized for a three seater rather than a two. At 45cm high it sits level with most sofa seats, so nobody has to reach down for a cup.

The Liverpool Pine Console Table - Natural is 150 x 38 x 76cm, tall enough to use standing and narrow enough for a hallway. It is the one piece in the range that regularly leaves the open plan area entirely and ends up by the front door, and it is the same 76cm height as the sideboard and the dining table.

The Liverpool Pine End Table - Black is 55 x 55 x 58cm and does the job the coffee table cannot: it sits at the arm of a chair for the person who is not near the middle of the room. In a long living space with a sofa at one end and an armchair at the other, one coffee table is never enough.

Liverpool Pine Coffee Table - Natural

What the Range Deliberately Does Not Do

There is no bedroom in this collection. No bed frame, no bedside table, no chest, no tallboy, no mirror. That is not an oversight: those pieces exist, they are simply catalogued under a different style, so a house furnished entirely from this range would have a beautifully coordinated living level and nothing to sleep on.

There is also no dining bench, which matters if you have a narrow dining area. Benches exist in the catalogue but only in one other range, so a bench and this table would be a mix rather than a match. Worth knowing before you commit to the table.

What is here instead is depth of choice inside a narrow field. Two table sizes, three set configurations including the 240cm table with eight chairs, two sideboards, two TV units. For an apartment or a townhouse where the whole living level is one room, that is more useful than a range that covers every room shallowly.

Liverpool Pine Console Table - Black

Choosing the Finish Before the Pieces

Because every design comes in both, this is the only decision that cannot be reversed one piece at a time. Natural is the safer answer in a small or dark room: pale timber against a pale wall reads as less furniture, and in an apartment where the whole level is visible from the front door, less furniture is the goal.

Black works, but it works best as an anchor rather than a scheme. One black sideboard along a light wall gives a room a centre of gravity. A black sideboard, black TV unit, black coffee table and black table in the same open space is a lot of dark timber in a country with this much light coming through the windows.

The mixed approach is legitimate and it is what most people land on: the large wall pieces in natural to keep the volume down, one black piece where you want the eye to stop. Both finishes are the same piece underneath, so nothing about the mix is a compromise on build. The full contemporary range shows both side by side, which is the fastest way to see which one your room wants.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many pieces are in the contemporary range?

Twenty six products, which is thirteen designs offered in two finishes each. There is no piece in the range that exists in only one colour, so the finish decision applies to the whole room rather than piece by piece.

Can one range furnish a whole open plan living and dining area?

This one can. It covers the dining table, chairs, sideboard, TV unit, coffee table, console and end table, which is every surface an open plan level needs. What it does not cover is the bedroom, which comes from a different part of the catalogue.

What size sideboard and TV unit come in the range?

Two of each. The sideboards are 180cm and 130cm wide, both 46cm deep and 76cm high. The TV units are 180cm and 140cm wide, both 46cm deep and 56cm high. Choosing between them is a wall length decision, not a storage one.

How deep is contemporary furniture against the wall?

Forty six centimetres for the sideboards and TV units, which is the number to plan the walkway around. The console is much shallower at 38cm, and the coffee table is 70cm across because it sits in open floor rather than against anything.

Is black or natural better for a small living room?

Natural, on balance, because a pale timber piece against a pale wall reads as less bulk in a room where every piece is visible at once. Black works better as a single anchor: one black sideboard in an otherwise light room rather than a whole level of it.