Liverpool or Richmond? The Bench Decides It More Often Than the Table Does

These are the two ranges Cedora customers actually get stuck between. Both build a dining room properly, both come in natural and black, both are pine underneath, and both put a 190cm and a 240cm table on the floor. Sitting side by side in a product grid they look like a preference rather than a decision.

The differences are real, but almost none of them are in the photographs. They are in the depth of the tabletop, the height of the chair backs, whether a bench exists at all, and how far each range reaches once you leave the dining room.

Key Takeaways

• Richmond is the only one with benches, in 158cm and 208cm.
• The Liverpool 240cm table is 110cm deep against Richmond's 100cm.
• Richmond chairs stand 88cm tall, Liverpool's 83cm.
• Liverpool offers two sideboard sizes and two TV unit sizes. Richmond offers one of each.
• Liverpool has forty pieces including a bedroom. Richmond has twenty seven and stops at the living room.

The Tables Look the Same Until You Measure the Depth

Both ranges run a 190cm and a 240cm table at 76cm high, and at 190cm they are effectively the same footprint: 90cm deep in both cases, seating six. If your room only takes the smaller table, this comparison barely matters and you should choose on looks.

At 240cm they part company. The Liverpool Pine Dining Table 240cm is 110cm deep. The Richmond Pine Dining Table 240cm - Natural is 100cm. Ten centimetres does not sound like a decision until you are the person setting a table for eight with a roast, two sides and a jug in the middle of it.

The cost is the same ten centimetres of floor on both sides. In a dining room that is already tight across its short dimension, the Richmond table gives you back walking room the Liverpool does not. Measure across the narrow direction of the room before you decide which way that trade falls.

Liverpool Pine Dining Table 240cm - Natural

Only One of Them Does Benches

Richmond has four bench SKUs, in 158cm and 208cm, and they are the only dining benches in the entire Cedora catalogue. Both sit 46cm high against a 76cm tabletop, which means 30cm of clearance and a bench that slides completely back under the table when the meal is over.

That single fact resolves this comparison for a lot of households. A bench seats three or four across without four separate chair backs breaking the sightline, it takes an extra person who arrives unannounced, and it disappears between meals in a way chairs cannot. In a narrow dining room or an open-plan space where the table sits in the traffic path, it is worth more than any material difference.

If bench seating is not part of your plan, this section costs Liverpool nothing. But it is worth being honest that no amount of comparing tabletops matters if the thing you actually wanted was a bench.

Richmond Pine Dining Bench 208cm - Natural

The Chairs Are Not Interchangeable

Both sell chairs in pairs, both upholster the seat, and the dimensions diverge more than you would guess. The Liverpool Pine Dining Chair Set of 2 - Natural is W54 x D54 x H83cm. The Richmond Pine Dining Chair Set of 2 - Natural is W51 x D62 x H88cm.

Five centimetres of back height changes what you see from the doorway. Richmond's taller backs read as more formal and give more support when a meal runs long. Liverpool's lower backs sit closer to the tabletop line, which keeps a small dining area feeling open, particularly when six chairs are in the room at once.

Width matters for a different reason. At 51cm the Richmond chair fits three along the long side of a 240cm table with room to spare. At 54cm the Liverpool chair does the same but with less margin, so if you are seating eight regularly the Richmond arrangement is the more comfortable one.

Storage: Liverpool Flexes, Richmond Commits

This is where Liverpool's size starts to tell. It offers two sideboards, at 130cm and 180cm, and two TV units, at 140cm and 180cm, all in both finishes. Richmond offers one sideboard at 160cm and one TV unit at 160cm. If your wall is 150cm or 200cm rather than something in between, that flexibility is the practical difference between a piece that fits and a piece that nearly fits.

Height differs too, and it is the detail most people miss. The Liverpool Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard - Natural stands 76cm high, level with the dining table. The Richmond Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard is 65cm. A sideboard at table height works as a serving surface you can slide dishes across. A lower one reads more like a console and keeps the wall feeling open above it.

Neither is better. They suit different habits. If you plate up at the sideboard when you entertain, take the taller one. If the sideboard is mostly storage with a lamp on it, the lower one keeps the room lighter.

Liverpool Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard - Natural

One Owns the Dining Room, One Covers the House

Richmond is a dining range that extends into the living room. Twenty seven pieces, twelve of them dining tables or settings, four benches, and then a sideboard, a TV unit, a console, a coffee table and an end table to carry the look next door. There is no bed, no bedside, no tallboy.

Liverpool is a whole-home range at forty pieces. It does everything Richmond does in the dining and living rooms, then adds six bed frames, two bedside tables, two tallboys, two chests and two mirrors. If the plan is to furnish a house rather than a room, that breadth is not a nice extra, it is the entire argument.

The trade for that breadth is the material. Liverpool is a pine frame with an oak veneer surface, which is what makes a consistent look across forty pieces affordable. Richmond puts solid oak in the legs, where a dining table takes its punishment, and pine in between. Which matters more depends on whether you are buying one hard-working table or a coherent house.

How to Actually Choose

Take Richmond if the dining table is the centre of the house, if you want bench seating, or if you are buying one table to survive fifteen years of family meals. Solid oak legs and a 100cm depth suit a room where the table is used hard and the floor around it is tight.

Take Liverpool if you are furnishing more than one room, if your wall needs a 130cm or 180cm sideboard rather than a 160cm one, or if you want the deeper 240cm tabletop for entertaining. Forty matching pieces is a genuine advantage when the alternative is assembling a house from four different shops.

And if you are still tied after all that, go and sit in the chairs. Five centimetres of back height and eight centimetres of seat depth is a bigger difference in practice than anything on this page, and it is the only part of the decision a specification cannot make for you.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is bigger, the Liverpool or Richmond dining table?

Both come in 190cm and 240cm. The difference is depth: the Liverpool 240cm is 110cm deep against 100cm on the Richmond. Ten centimetres down the middle of a table is the room for serving dishes without crowding place settings.

Does Liverpool have dining benches?

No, and no other Cedora range does either. Bench seating exists in Richmond alone, at 158cm and 208cm. If it is part of your plan, that settles the question before you get to the tables.

What is the difference in materials?

Richmond uses solid oak legs on a pine structure. Liverpool uses a solid pine frame with an oak veneer surface. Richmond puts real hardwood where the knocks land, Liverpool puts an oak surface across everything you see.

Which range covers more of the house?

Liverpool, comfortably. Forty pieces including six bed frames, bedside tables, tallboys, chests and mirrors. Richmond's twenty seven pieces stop at the dining and living rooms.

Do both come in black?

Yes. Both ranges offer natural and black across the range, so the choice between them is not a colour decision. The end table is the one exception, sold in natural only in Richmond.