Farmhouse is one of those words that gets attached to almost anything with a timber top. It is worth ignoring the word for a minute and looking at how the eleven pieces in this range are actually built, because they share two construction decisions and both of them change a room. The first is that every visible surface is acacia timber and every frame is painted white. The second is that nothing sits on the floor. Every single piece stands on legs, and that is why this is the tallest furniture in the catalogue. Key Takeaways Eleven pieces, all Oxford, covering dining and living and no bedroom at all. Acacia timber on every surface you touch, painted white on every frame you do not. Every piece stands on legs, so floor runs continuously under all of it. The TV unit is 60cm and the sideboard 85cm, both the tallest of their type here. The console is 36cm deep, the narrowest in the catalogue by 2cm. Two Materials, and Each One Has a Job Pick up any piece in the range and the split is obvious. The Oxford Acacia 4 Door 1 Drawer Sideboard has acacia doors, an acacia drawer front and an acacia top, sitting in a white painted carcass on white painted legs. The Oxford Acacia TV Unit does the same thing at 180 x 45 x 60cm. That division is not decorative. Timber goes where hands and plates and remote controls go, because timber takes wear and can be wiped without showing it. Paint goes on the structure, where nothing touches, and it is what keeps a room full of solid acacia from reading as heavy. Ten of the eleven pieces follow the rule. The exception is the Oxford Acacia Dining Chair Set of 2, which is a white timber frame with a grey upholstered seat and no visible acacia at all. In a room where the table top is a metre of pale timber, chairs that add more of it would be too much, so the chairs stay quiet. Everything Stands on Legs The case pieces sit on splayed white legs that angle out from the carcass. The dining tables and the coffee table use an A frame trestle base with a stretcher running between the feet. Different shapes, same principle: you can see the floor underneath every piece in the range. That does more for a small Australian living room than any colour choice. A floor that runs uninterrupted from one wall to the other reads as a bigger floor, and the eye stops registering the furniture as a solid block along the edge of the room. In a 3.5 metre wide living area, that is the difference between full and furnished. It also makes a real difference on a Saturday. A vacuum head goes under a piece on legs and does not go under a plinth. So does a robot vacuum, a lost sock and a tennis ball. Furniture on legs is furniture you clean around rather than furniture you move. [products-of-collection collection="farmhouse-furniture" heading="Shop the Farmhouse Range" limit="12" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-farmhouse-1"] Which Is Why It Is the Tallest in the Catalogue Lifting a carcass off the floor adds its height to the whole piece, and the numbers show it. The Oxford TV unit is 60cm high. Every other TV unit in the catalogue sits at 55cm or 56cm. The Oxford sideboard is 85cm, against 76cm for one range and 65cm for another. For the sideboard that is a straight win. At 85cm it is within 5cm of a kitchen bench, so you serve from it standing rather than stooping, and it is 9cm above the dining table it sits beside. Christmas lunch with the food on the sideboard and the table free is exactly what that height is for. For the TV unit it is a decision to make rather than a feature to enjoy. At 60cm plus the height of the television, the screen centre ends up higher than the ideal seated eye line for a low sofa. If your couch is deep and low, wall mounting above this unit is the better answer. If it is a firmer, higher seat, the extra height is fine. The Dining End Two tables. The Oxford Acacia Dining Table 190cm is 90cm across and the Oxford Acacia Dining Table 240cm is 100cm, both 76cm high like every other dining table here. The trestle base means the legs sit well in from the corners, so a person on the end of the table is not straddling a leg. The 100cm width on the larger table is the number worth noticing. Ten centimetres of extra depth across the middle is where the serving dishes go on a night when eight people are eating, and it is the difference between a centre of the table you can use and one that is permanently occupied by a fruit bowl nobody can reach past. Chairs come as a set of two at 46.8 x 55 x 88.7cm, with the upholstered seat that keeps the room from becoming all timber. The 240cm table with eight chairs is the complete version of the arrangement, and buying it that way is the only route to eight matching chairs at once. The Living End The Oxford Acacia Coffee Table is 130 x 70 x 45cm, which is the same footprint as the coffee tables in two other ranges and the standard this catalogue works to. What is not standard is the base: it repeats the dining table's A frame at a smaller scale, so a living and dining area furnished from this range reads as one idea rather than two. The Oxford Acacia Console Table is 150 x 36 x 76cm and is the narrowest console in the catalogue, 2cm slimmer than the next one. In an Australian hallway around a metre wide, those 2cm are not nothing: they are the last of the clearance you need to get past with a laundry basket. The Oxford Acacia Side Table finishes the room at 55 x 55 x 58cm, the same square footprint every side table here uses. Beside a sofa it sits at arm height, and in a spare bedroom it doubles as a bedside table, which is the closest this range gets to a bedroom at all. Where the Range Stops There is no bed, no bedside table, no chest, no tallboy and no mirror. Eleven pieces, all of them dining and living. If you want this look through a whole house you will be mixing ranges, and the acacia here will not match the timber in a bedroom range exactly, because it is a different species finished a different way. That is less of a problem than it sounds. Bedrooms are the one part of a house nobody sees in the same glance as the dining table, so a change of range at the bedroom door is invisible in practice. What matters is that the rooms people move between in one line of sight stay consistent. Within its own territory the range is complete: you can furnish an entire open plan dining and living level from these eleven pieces without buying a single thing from anywhere else. The farmhouse range is small on purpose, and every piece in it is doing a job the others do not. Frequently Asked Questions What is the farmhouse range made of? Solid acacia on every visible surface, over a painted white frame, with an MDF back panel on the sideboard and TV unit. The timber is where you touch the piece and the paint is where you do not, which is the whole design in one sentence. Why is farmhouse furniture taller than other ranges? Because it stands on legs rather than a plinth. The TV unit is 60cm high against 55cm to 56cm elsewhere in the catalogue, and the sideboard is 85cm against 65cm to 76cm. Lifting a carcass off the floor adds height to the whole piece. Does furniture on legs make a room look bigger? It genuinely helps. You can see floor running underneath every piece in this range, and a continuous floor reads as a larger room than one interrupted by furniture sitting flush to the skirting. In a small living room it is worth more than the colour is. What sizes does the farmhouse dining table come in? Two. The 190cm is 90cm across and the 240cm is 100cm across, both 76cm high on an A frame trestle base. The 240cm seats eight and the 190cm six, and both are sold on their own or in a set with chairs. Does the farmhouse range include bedroom furniture? No. All eleven pieces are dining and living: table, chairs, sideboard, TV unit, coffee table, console and side table. If you want the same look in a bedroom you would be mixing in a different range, and the timber tone will not match exactly. Related Posts Modern Farmhouse Style: What It Is and How to Use It Well Byron vs Oxford: Two Acacia Ranges Compared The 21cm That Decides Which Sideboard Works in Your Dining Room Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.
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Sitting up in bed is not a design detail, it is most of what people do in a bedroom that is not sleeping. Reading, a laptop on a Sunday morning, waiting out a headache. A timber headboard is a wall behind your shoulders. A fabric one is something you can lean on for an hour without a pillow doing all the work. Two Cedora ranges are built that way, not one. Newcastle sets a fabric panel inside a curved frame painted white; Liverpool sets one inside bare timber and carries it down to the footboard as well. This is the Newcastle guide, and it starts by being clear about which of the two you actually want. Key Takeaways One of two Cedora ranges with a fabric headboard, and the only one in a painted frame. 123.5cm tall on a bedhead just 6.8cm deep, the thinnest frame in the catalogue. Liverpool is the other upholstered range, slightly taller at 125cm and fabric at both ends. Three plain bed frames in double, queen and king. No drawer version. Drawers are the shallowest of any bedroom range, which is what the curves cost. The Headboard Is Fabric, and That Changes the Room On the Newcastle Acacia Queen Bed Frame the headboard is a linen-toned upholstered panel held inside a shaped timber surround, painted white, with the curve carried through to the footboard and down into the legs. It reaches 123.5cm from the floor on a frame only 6.8cm deep, which is the thinnest bedhead Cedora builds, so the height costs you almost nothing in floor area. What it buys is comfort you notice daily, not a feature you point at. Leaning back against fabric is simply better than leaning against a painted board, and the height means the panel supports your shoulders rather than stopping at the small of your back. In a room where the bed is also the reading chair, which describes most Australian bedrooms, that is the difference between using the bed and propping up three pillows every time. The honest cost is maintenance. Fabric near a north-facing window will fade over years in a way paint will not, and it collects dust that a damp cloth cannot simply lift off. If the bed sits in full afternoon sun with the curtains open, this is not the range for you. If it sits on an internal wall, the concern is theoretical. Newcastle or Liverpool: Choosing Between the Two Fabric Beds Since both ranges upholster, the decision is worth making properly rather than by accident. The Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Natural puts its soft woven fabric panel inside a bare timber frame and repeats it at the foot of the bed, so you get fabric at both ends and visible grain around it. Newcastle keeps fabric at the head only and answers it with a solid curved footboard in paint. The numbers are close enough to matter. Liverpool stands 125cm at the bedhead on an 8cm frame, Newcastle 123.5cm on 6.8cm. Where they separate properly is storage: the Liverpool bedside drawers are 22.5cm deep inside against 15.1cm in the Newcastle, and the Liverpool chest runs 24.6cm against 16cm, in cabinets of identical external size. So the honest split is style against capacity. Take Newcastle if you want the painted, curved, Provincial look and the room is where you display things rather than store them. Take Liverpool if the bedroom has to hold a household's clothing and you would rather the timber showed. Both are comfortable to lean on, which was the point of the fabric in the first place. Three Frames, and What the Curve Adds The range runs double at W149 x D208cm, queen at W164 x D219cm and king at W194 x D219cm, each 123.5cm tall. All three use a solid slat base, so a mattress goes straight on with no ensemble underneath. There is no version with built-in drawers. The shaped legs are the detail that decides whether this range works in your room. They splay slightly outward and curve, which is what makes the bed read as French Provincial rather than plain white. They also mean the widest point of the bed is not the mattress line but a few centimetres below it, so if you are planning to slot the frame between a wall and a robe door, measure at floor level rather than at the top. The footboard is solid and curved, not open and not upholstered. That gives the bed a defined end, which is worth having in a large room where an open-ended bed can look adrift, and worth thinking twice about in a small one where the same solidity closes the space in. [products-of-collection collection="newcastle" heading="Shop the Newcastle Collection" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-newcastle-1"] The Case Pieces, and the Tallest Bedside in the Catalogue The Newcastle Acacia 2 Drawer Bedside Table is W55 x D45 x H64.4cm. That extra four and a half centimetres over the standard 60cm sounds trivial and is not, because the Newcastle bed sits on shaped legs and reads slightly higher than a plinth-based frame. The bedside was drawn to match it. If you are pairing a Newcastle bedside with a different bed, check the mattress height first. The Newcastle Acacia 5 Drawer Tallboy is W100 x D45 x H114cm with five drawers, two narrow ones at 42.3cm across the top and three at 87.6cm below. The Newcastle Acacia 6 Drawer Chest is W140 x D45 x H85cm with six drawers at 62.35cm wide. Both carry the same curved fronts and shaped legs as the bed, and both sit on the same 45cm depth as every other Cedora case piece, so they line up on a wall with anything else in the catalogue. Between them, the choice is the usual one. The tallboy takes a metre of wall and goes up. The chest takes 140cm and gives back a usable surface at 85cm, which is where the lamp, the tray and the folded washing end up. In a Provincial room the chest also gives the mirror somewhere to live. The Drawers Are the Shallowest of Any Bedroom Range This is the part worth being blunt about, because nothing in a photograph tells you. Newcastle drawer interiors are 15.1cm high in the bedside, 16cm in the chest and 18.5cm in the tallboy. The equivalent Bristol pieces run 19.2cm, 20.3cm and 20.8cm, and the Liverpool bedside and chest run 22.5cm and 24.6cm, all in cabinets with identical external dimensions. The reason is the styling itself. Shaped drawer fronts, a curved carcass and legs that lift the whole piece off the floor all take their volume from the same place, and that place is the inside of the drawer. It is not a fault. It is the honest arithmetic of buying curves instead of corners. Whether it matters depends entirely on what you fold. Shirts, t-shirts and folded linen do not care about five centimetres. Bulky winter jumpers and doubled-over denim do, and if that is most of your wardrobe you will be happier with a squarer range. Buy Newcastle for the way it looks and sits, with your eyes open about capacity, and it will not disappoint you later. The Mirror, and What Makes This Provincial The Newcastle Acacia Mirror is 100 x 100cm and 5cm deep, with a shaped and moulded painted frame in place of a plain square one. It pairs with the chest, and if you want both in one purchase there is a Newcastle Acacia 6 Drawer Chest with Mirror. French Provincial as a look is not about any single feature, and it is certainly not about putting a fleur-de-lis on something. It is the combination of a curved silhouette, a painted finish that softens rather than reflects, shaped legs that lift furniture visually off the floor, and moulding that catches light along an edge. Newcastle carries all four across every piece, which is why the range reads as one room rather than a set of matching boxes. It suits an older Australian house better than a new one. High ceilings, picture rails, a bay window and carpet all flatter curves. A low-ceilinged room with square architraves and polished concrete will fight them, and in that room the Newcastle range looks like furniture that wandered in from a different building. Frequently Asked Questions Which Cedora beds have an upholstered headboard? Two ranges. Newcastle sets a fabric panel inside a curved frame painted white, and Liverpool sets one inside a bare timber frame in natural or black. London and Manchester use panelled timber headboards, and Bristol uses a slatted one. What is the difference between the Newcastle and Liverpool upholstered beds? Three things. Liverpool upholsters the footboard as well as the headboard, Newcastle only the headboard. Liverpool's frame is bare timber, Newcastle's is painted. Liverpool stands 125cm at the bedhead against Newcastle's 123.5cm. How tall is the Newcastle bed? 123.5cm from the floor to the top of the headboard, on a frame just 6.8cm deep. That is the thinnest bedhead in the catalogue, so the height costs almost nothing in floor space. Only the Liverpool bed is taller, at 125cm. What is the Newcastle range made from? A solid acacia headboard frame with a pine and acacia structure, painted white. The beds use a solid slat base, so no separate bed base is needed under the mattress. Why are the Newcastle drawers shallower than other ranges? The shaped fronts and curved legs take their volume from somewhere, and it is the inside of the drawer. The chest drawers are 16cm high against 20.3cm in the Bristol chest and 24.6cm in the Liverpool one, all three in cabinets of identical external size. 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Byron Inspired by the ease of Australian coastal living. There is a particular feeling to life near the Australian coast. Doors stay open a little longer. Lunch stretches into the afternoon. Natural light moves through the home. Friends arrive, another chair is pulled up and nobody is in much of a hurry to leave. It’s relaxed without being careless. Beautiful without trying too hard. That feeling sits at the heart of the Byron Collection. A Contemporary Take on Coastal Living Coastal style has evolved. Today, it is less about obvious references to the sea and more about how a space makes us feel. Light. Warm. Natural. Relaxed. Byron takes this more contemporary approach, pairing the warmth and individual character of acacia timber with clean, confident proportions. The result is distinctly Coastal Contemporary - furniture that feels connected to Australian living without relying on coastal clichés. Letting Timber Lead One of Byron’s defining qualities is its natural warmth. Acacia timber brings grain, tonal variation and organic character to each piece, giving the collection depth without the need for excessive decoration. Look closely and you’ll notice the details that make timber so compelling. Subtle changes in tone. Natural grain. Individual markings. Characteristics that allow each piece to have a presence of its own. Rather than competing with the room, Byron gives you a warm foundation to build around. Byron Acacia Dining Table 160cm Made for Gathering The dining table is naturally at the centre of the Byron story. Available in 190cm and 240cm, the Byron Acacia Dining Table is designed for different ways of gathering. The 190cm table feels at home with everyday family dining - breakfast, weeknight dinners and slower Sunday lunches. The 240cm table gives larger spaces and bigger occasions somewhere to happen. More friends. More family. More food in the middle of the table. And probably one more chair than originally planned. Paired with dining chairs or a bench, the setting can become as relaxed or considered as the occasion calls for. Beyond the Dining Table A home feels most cohesive when pieces speak to one another without everything feeling overly matched. That is why Byron extends beyond the table. Pieces such as the Byron Acacia 3 Drawer Console Table carry the same natural warmth into living and transitional spaces, allowing the character of the collection to move throughout the home. Style it simply with ceramics and greenery. Place artwork above it. Or allow everyday life to take over. The collection is designed to work either way. How to Style Byron Keep it natural. Soft whites, warm neutrals and sandy tones complement the warmth of acacia timber. Introduce linen and woven textures for softness. Use ceramic, stone and organic forms for contrast. Bring in greenery rather than overt coastal decoration. And leave a little space. Byron doesn’t need much around it to feel complete. The timber should remain part of the story. Byron Acacia 3 Drawer Console Table The Byron Feeling Byron isn’t about recreating a beach house. It’s about capturing something more subtle. The ease. The warmth. The openness. The feeling of a home where people can arrive, settle in and stay awhile. A collection made for long lunches, everyday dinners and everything that happens in between. Byron by Cedora Coastal Contemporary, inspired by the way Australians live. Relaxed by nature. Designed for home. Related Posts Byron or Oxford? Same Timber, Same Build, Two Different Styles The Beauty of Natural Timber 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.
If you have been comparing these two, the frustrating part is that nobody will tell you plainly what separates them. Both are solid acacia. Both put that timber on top and paint the frame white. Both cover a dining room and a living room and stop before the bedroom. Both come from the same maker, at nearly the same price per piece. The store files one as coastal and the other as farmhouse, and that is a genuine positioning difference, not a material one. What actually decides it for most households is a simpler question: how big is your room. Key Takeaways Same material in both: solid acacia top, white painted frame, MDF back panel on the sideboard and TV unit. Byron runs smaller, including the only acacia table under 190cm. Oxford runs larger: 180cm sideboard and TV unit against Byron's 160cm. Oxford carries timber onto the sideboard door fronts. Byron keeps it to the tops. The coffee tables are dimensionally identical and the chairs are within a centimetre. Same Timber, Same Build, Different Shelf Start with what is not in dispute. Both ranges list solid acacia, with the sideboard and TV unit in each carrying an MDF back panel that sits against the wall. Both put the acacia where you see and use it, and paint everything structural white. If you were shown an unlabelled tabletop from each you would not reliably tell them apart. Where they diverge is how the store groups them. The Coastal Furniture collection is exactly the twelve Byron pieces. The Farmhouse Furniture collection is exactly the eleven Oxford ones. Two labels, no overlap. Read those labels as descriptions of proportion, not of material. Byron is lighter and more compact, which is what coastal styling usually means in practice. Oxford is broader and more substantial, which is the farmhouse end of the same idea. Neither is more or less of a timber purchase than the other. Byron Goes Smaller The Byron Acacia Dining Table 160cm is the piece Oxford has no answer to. At W1600 x D800 x H760 (mm) it seats four, and it is 100mm shallower than every other acacia table in the catalogue. In an apartment or a galley kitchen where the walkway past the table is the constraint, that shallower depth is worth more than the length. The pattern holds through the range. The Byron Acacia 3 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard is 1600mm wide, the Byron Acacia 2 Door TV Unit the same, and the Byron Acacia 3 Drawer Console Table is 1200mm long. These are pieces drawn for rooms with normal walls, not long ones. Byron also gives you more drawers where it counts. Three drawers and three cupboards in the sideboard against Oxford's one drawer and four cupboards. If your dining storage is cutlery, placemats and candles rather than platters and serving bowls, that split matters more than the extra 200mm of width. Byron Acacia Dining Table 160cm [products-of-collection collection="coastal-furniture" heading="Byron: the Coastal Grouping" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-byox-1"] Oxford Goes Bigger Oxford starts where Byron's mid-size sits. The dining tables are 190cm and 240cm only, and the case pieces step up: the Oxford Acacia 4 Door 1 Drawer Sideboard is W180 x D45 x H85cm and the Oxford Acacia TV Unit the same 180cm width. The console is the piece that best shows the difference in thinking. The Oxford Acacia Console Table is W150 x D36 x H76cm: half a metre longer than Byron's and two centimetres shallower. That is a hallway piece for a proper hallway, one where you want length along the wall and as little intrusion into the walking space as possible. Four cupboard doors rather than three also changes what the sideboard is for. Oxford's is closed storage with a single drawer across the middle, which suits platters, serving bowls and the things that come out when you entertain. It is the range for a house that hosts, not one that mostly eats. Byron Oxford Dining tables 160cm, 190cm, 240cm 190cm, 240cm Sideboard 160cm wide, 3 door 3 drawer, 86cm high 180cm wide, 4 door 1 drawer, 85cm high TV unit 160cm wide, 55cm high 180cm wide, 60cm high Console W120 x D38 x H82.5cm W150 x D36 x H76cm Small table End table, 55 x 55 x 55cm Side table, 55 x 55 x 58cm Coffee table 130 x 70 x 45cm 130 x 70 x 45cm Chair W47.6 x D54.1 x H88.5cm W46.8 x D55 x H88.7cm Pieces 12 11 Where the Timber Stops Is the Visual Difference This is the one you can actually see across a room, and it is not in any specification. On the Byron sideboard the acacia is the top and nothing else. The body is white, the doors are white, and the timber reads as a warm line along the upper edge of an otherwise painted piece. On the Oxford sideboard the acacia carries down onto the door fronts. The timber occupies most of the visible area and the white becomes a frame around it. Standing in front of both, Byron is painted furniture with a timber top and Oxford is timber furniture in a painted case. That is the practical version of the coastal and farmhouse labels. A white-dominant piece keeps a small or bright room feeling light. A timber-dominant piece gives a larger room something with weight in it. Neither is a better design, and if you are mixing ranges it is worth knowing which way each one leans before you put them on the same wall. Byron Acacia 3 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard [products-of-collection collection="farmhouse-furniture" heading="Oxford: the Farmhouse Grouping" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-byox-2"] The Pieces That Are Genuinely the Same Three items make the mixing question easy. The coffee tables are identical at 130 x 70 x 45cm in both ranges. The small tables are within three centimetres, at 55 x 55 x 55cm for the Byron end table and 55 x 55 x 58cm for the Oxford side table. And the chairs sit within a centimetre of each other on every dimension. The Byron Acacia Dining Chair Set of 2 is W47.6 x D54.1 x H88.5cm and the Oxford Acacia Dining Chair Set of 2 is W46.8 x D55 x H88.7cm. Both upholster the seat on a white timber frame. Nobody sitting at your table will ever identify which range a chair came from. That matters if you are furnishing in stages or buying secondhand later. Cross-range mixing usually fails on colour, and here the whites and the timber tones are the same because the construction is the same. A Byron table with Oxford storage is a legitimate plan, not a compromise. Which One to Buy Take Byron if the room is compact, if you want a four-seat table, or if your dining storage is small items that want drawers. Twelve pieces, the lightest look of the two, and the only acacia table that fits a genuinely small space. Take Oxford if you have a long wall to fill, if you host and need cupboard space for serving pieces, or if you want more visible timber in the room. The 180cm case pieces and the 150cm console need the space, and in the right room they carry it where a 160cm piece would look under-scaled. And if your room sits between the two, remember the pieces are compatible. Buy the table from whichever range fits the floor and the storage from whichever fits the wall. That is a better answer than forcing one range to do a job the other was drawn for. Frequently Asked Questions What is the difference between Byron and Oxford? Size, mostly. Byron runs a 160cm dining table and 160cm case pieces. Oxford starts at 190cm and its sideboard and TV unit are 180cm. Both are a solid acacia top on a white painted frame. Which one suits a small dining room? Byron. Its 160cm table at W1600 x D800 x H760 (mm) seats four and is the only acacia table under 190cm in the range. Oxford has no equivalent. Do they use the same timber? Yes. Both are recorded as solid acacia, with an MDF back panel on the sideboard and TV unit in each range. The visible timber and the white frame are the same idea in both. Why is one called coastal and the other farmhouse? They are grouped that way in store: the Coastal Furniture collection is the twelve Byron pieces and the Farmhouse Furniture collection is the eleven Oxford ones. The construction is the same, so treat the labels as shorthand for proportions rather than materials. Can I mix Byron and Oxford in one room? Yes, more easily than most cross-range mixes, because the timber and the frame colour match. The coffee tables are identical at 130 x 70 x 45cm and the chairs are within a centimetre of each other, so a Byron table with Oxford storage reads as one room. 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Coastal furniture goes wrong when it starts announcing itself. Rope handles, painted anchors, a shell in a jar on every surface, and suddenly a living room reads like a rental at Byron Bay rather than a home someone lives in year round. The Byron range takes the opposite route. Solid acacia tops on white painted frames, no motifs, no theme. This is how the twelve pieces work across a dining room and a living room, what the timber actually is, and which table size fits which house. Key Takeaways Every Byron top is solid acacia, every frame is painted white. Three table sizes: 160cm seats four, 190cm seats six, 240cm seats eight. The sideboard stands 860mm high, taller than the dining table, so it doubles as a serving bench. The console, coffee table and end table all carry a lower shelf. Byron and the Coastal Furniture collection are the same twelve pieces. A Coastal Look That Does Not Need Shells on the Shelf What makes Byron read as coastal is the contrast, not the decoration. A white frame drops away against a pale wall, so what your eye actually lands on is the acacia top: warm, open grained, a shade or two darker than the frame carrying it. That is the same trick a weatherboard verandah plays, where the timber does the talking and the paintwork stays quiet. It matters in an Australian house because our light is unforgiving. Midday sun through a north-facing window flattens dark furniture into a silhouette and turns high-gloss surfaces into a glare. A matte white frame reflects that light back gently, and the timber warms it. A room with the Byron range in it looks the same at eight in the morning as it does at four in the afternoon. A dark timber setting in a west-facing room does not. The practical upside is that you never have to commit to a theme. Byron sits under linen, under rattan, under a jute rug, and equally under black-framed windows and a concrete floor. Nothing about it insists on a beach house, which is exactly why it survives the years when everyone gets tired of coastal styling. Three Table Sizes, and the One Most Homes Get Wrong The Byron Acacia Dining Table 160cm measures W1600 x D800 x H760 (mm) and seats four. It is the size people skip past on the way to something bigger, and it is the right answer more often than they think. At 800mm deep rather than 900mm, it gives back a hundred millimetres of walkway, which in an apartment or a galley kitchen is the difference between squeezing past a seated guest and walking past them. The Byron Acacia Dining Table 190cm at W1900 x D900 x H760 (mm) seats six and is the volume seller for a reason: four every night, six when the grandparents come. The Byron Acacia Dining Table 240cm at W2400 x D1000 x H760 (mm) seats eight and is a genuine entertaining table, the one you buy because Christmas happens at your place now. Measure the floor before you fall for the table. The usual mistake is buying for the four times a year you host rather than the three hundred and sixty one days you walk around it. If the bigger table means turning sideways to get to the kitchen every morning, the smaller one will make you happier. Byron Acacia Dining Table 160cm with 4 Chairs Chairs, and the Settings Sold Ready to Go Chairs come in pairs as the Byron Acacia Dining Chair Set of 2, W476 x D541 x H885 (mm), with a white frame, a slatted back and an upholstered seat. The upholstery is the part that earns its keep. A timber seat is fine for twenty minutes and punishing for two hours, and Australian dinners in summer have a way of stretching from the table to the deck and back again. At 476mm wide the chairs are on the narrow side, which is deliberate. It is what lets three sit comfortably along the long edge of the 240cm table instead of two and a squeeze. It also means they tuck close, so the walkway behind them stays usable when nobody is sitting down. If you would rather not piece it together, three settings arrive matched: the Byron Acacia Dining Table 160cm with 4 Chairs, the Byron Acacia Dining Table 190cm with 6 Chairs, and the Byron Acacia Dining Table 240cm with 8 Chairs. Buying the setting means one delivery and one shade of white, which sounds trivial until you have two whites in the same room that do not agree. Byron Acacia Dining Table 240cm with 8 Chairs Storage That Keeps the Room Bright The Byron Acacia 3 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard is the piece worth planning around. At W1600 x D450 x H860 (mm) it stands a full hundred millimetres above the dining table, which puts the top at a comfortable standing height. Three drawers take cutlery and linen, three cupboards take the platters that surface twice a year, and the top becomes the place food waits while everyone finds a seat. In a house that entertains, that height does more work than the storage does. Next door, the Byron Acacia 2 Door TV Unit runs the same 1600mm width and 450mm depth at a lower H550 (mm), with two doors and open shelving so the things you reach for daily stay out and the cable mess stays behind a door. Matching the width across two rooms is what stops an open-plan space reading as two unrelated purchases pushed against the same wall. The smaller pieces all carry a lower shelf, which is the quiet advantage of this range. The Byron Acacia 3 Drawer Console Table, W1200 x D380x H825 (mm), holds keys and post above and a basket below. The Byron Acacia Coffee Table at W1300 x D700 x H450 (mm) is generous enough for a board game, and the Byron Acacia End Table, W550 x D550 x H550 (mm), parks beside a sofa or a bed without asking for floor space. Byron Acacia 3 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard [products-of-collection collection="byron" heading="Shop the Byron Collection" limit="12" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-byron-1"] Living With a White Frame in an Australian Home Two honest notes before you buy. A painted frame marks sooner than a stained one, and it happens in predictable places: the feet where the vacuum head clips them, the chair rails where shoes rest, the drawer edges near the handles. The upside is that white wipes clean with a damp cloth in seconds, while a raw timber leg holds a scuff for good. Most households find that trade fair. The acacia top is the durable half of the equation. It is a dense timber with a busy grain, and busy grain is forgiving: crumbs of daily wear disappear into the pattern instead of sitting on top of it like they do on a flat, pale surface. Use a placemat under anything straight off the stove, wipe spills rather than letting them sit, and keep the table out of all-day direct sun through an uncovered window, which is the one thing that fades timber faster than use does. Worth knowing: the sideboard and the TV unit carry an MDF back panel, which is standard in cabinet furniture and sits against the wall where nothing touches it. Every surface you actually use, every top and every shelf you set something down on, is solid acacia. If you want the longer version on how the timber behaves, our guide to acacia covers the trade-offs in full. Byron Acacia Coffee Table One Range, Two Rooms, No Theme Byron works because it is small enough to be consistent and broad enough to finish two rooms. Twelve pieces, one timber, one paint colour, and a shape language that does not change between the dining table and the end table beside the sofa. You can start with the table and the chairs, add the sideboard when the cutlery drawer in the kitchen gives up, and put the TV unit in next year without anything looking bolted on. That is the honest case for buying a range rather than assembling a room from six shops. Not that it saves money, because it usually does not, but that it removes the low-grade decision fatigue of trying to match a white you bought eighteen months ago. The whole Coastal Furniture collection is these same twelve pieces, so nothing is hiding around a corner waiting to clash. What it will not do is furnish a bedroom, and it is better to say that now than have you hunting for a matching bed frame. Byron stops at the dining and living rooms. If those are the spaces guests actually see, and the rooms where an Australian summer gets spent with the doors open and people wandering between the table and the deck, then twelve pieces is enough to finish the job properly. Byron Acacia 2 Door TV Unit Frequently Asked Questions Is Byron furniture solid timber? The tops are solid acacia. The frames are painted white, and the sideboard and TV unit also carry an MDF back panel. Everything you put a plate, a cup or a laptop on is solid timber. What size Byron dining table do I need? The 160cm table seats four, the 190cm seats six and the 240cm seats eight. All three stand 760mm high. The 160cm is also 800mm deep rather than 900mm, so it suits an apartment or a galley kitchen where the walkway matters more than the extra centimetres. Does the white frame mark easily? A painted frame shows scuffs sooner than a stained one, most often around the feet and the chair rails where shoes and vacuum heads land. It also wipes clean in seconds, which a raw timber leg does not. The acacia top is the part that takes daily wear, and it hides it well. Can I buy a Byron table and chairs together? Yes. Three settings are matched and priced together: the 160cm table with four chairs, the 190cm with six, and the 240cm with eight. Chairs on their own are sold in pairs. Is Byron the same as Cedora's other coastal furniture? Byron is the coastal range. Every piece in the Coastal Furniture collection is a Byron piece, so the two are the same twelve items viewed two ways. Related Posts What Is Acacia Wood Furniture? Pros, Cons, and Durability Modern Coastal Design: Create a Calm, Refined Home Aesthetic Richmond Collection Room by Room: Dining Tables and Bench Seating Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.
Acacia is the timber people ask about most and understand least. It turns up in the same sentence as oak and teak, it costs a fraction of either, and the usual explanation stops at "durable hardwood" without ever answering the question a buyer actually has, which is what it will look like in their house in five years. Cedora uses it in thirty-one pieces across three ranges. On twenty-three of them the acacia is what you see and touch. On the other eight it is inside the furniture, painted over, and you would never know it was there. Those are two genuinely different purchases, and it is worth knowing which one you are making. Key Takeaways Thirty-one acacia pieces: Byron twelve, Oxford eleven, Newcastle eight. Byron and Oxford show the timber. Newcastle paints over it. Every acacia top is solid. Sideboards and TV units carry an MDF back panel. Byron paints everything but the tops. Oxford carries timber onto door fronts too. Cedora's own Acacia Furniture collection excludes Newcastle, for exactly that reason. Why a Furniture Maker Reaches for Acacia Acacia is dense, it is farmed rather than slow-grown, and it arrives with a grain that is anything but uniform. Boards vary from pale honey to a warmer caramel, often across the same tabletop, and the figure runs in short interlocked passages rather than the long straight lines of oak. It is the opposite of a calm timber. That variability is the whole point commercially. A busy grain forgives, which matters more in a family home than any hardness rating printed on a spec sheet. A cup ring, a fork scrape, the mark a hot plate leaves through a thin tea towel: on a flat pale surface each of those events is an incident, and on acacia most of them simply disappear into the pattern within a week or two. The trade is that you cannot control the look. Two Oxford tables from the same production run will not match board for board, and if you are the sort of person who wants furniture to arrive exactly as photographed, that will bother you. If you would rather your dining table look lived in on purpose than worn out by accident, it is the right timber. Byron: Acacia on Top, White Everywhere Else The twelve Byron pieces follow one rule. The top is solid acacia, everything holding it up is painted white. The Byron Acacia Dining Table 190cm at W1900 x D900 x H760 (mm) is the clearest example: a warm timber plane floating on a frame that visually disappears against a pale wall. It is a deliberate piece of restraint. In a room with a lot of natural light, which describes most Australian living areas facing a garden or a deck, a full timber setting can read heavy by mid-afternoon. Splitting the piece into a timber surface and a white structure keeps the warmth at eye level, where you sit and eat, and takes the weight out of everything below the table line. The same logic runs through the Byron Acacia 3 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard at W1600 x D450 x H860 (mm) and the Byron Acacia Coffee Table. White carcass, timber top, and an MDF back panel on the sideboard and TV unit that sits against the wall where nothing touches it. Byron Acacia 3 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard Oxford: the Timber Goes Further Oxford runs the same combination but does not stop at the top. On the Oxford Acacia 4 Door 1 Drawer Sideboard, W180 x D45 x H85cm, the acacia carries down onto the door fronts, so the timber occupies most of the piece and the white becomes a frame around it. Stand the two sideboards side by side and Byron reads as painted furniture with a timber top, Oxford as timber furniture in a painted case. Oxford also runs larger. The sideboard and the Oxford Acacia TV Unit are both 180cm wide against Byron's 160cm, and the Oxford Acacia Console Table stretches to W150 x D36 x H76cm, which is unusually long and unusually shallow. Thirty-six centimetres is narrow enough for a hallway people still have to walk down. The dining tables are the 190cm at W190 x D90 x H76cm and the 240cm at W240 x D100 x H76cm, seating six and eight. Chairs come in pairs as the Oxford Acacia Dining Chair Set of 2, W46.8 x D55 x H88.7cm, with an upholstered seat on a white timber frame. Oxford Acacia 4 Door 1 Drawer Sideboard [products-of-collection collection="acacia-furniture" heading="Acacia Furniture at Cedora" limit="12" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-acacia-1"] Newcastle: the Acacia You Never See The eight Newcastle pieces list acacia too, and this is where a buyer can be caught out. The bed frames are recorded as a solid acacia headboard with a pine and acacia structure, and the case pieces as a pine and acacia structure. Every one of them is painted white, and on the beds the headboard panel is upholstered in fabric on top of that. There is no visible timber anywhere in the range. That is not a problem, but it does change what you are buying. In Byron and Oxford you are paying for acacia as a finish, and the timber is doing the aesthetic work. In Newcastle you are paying for it as a structure, and the aesthetic work is being done by the shape: curved fronts, moulded edges, shaped legs. Judge Newcastle on its silhouette, because that is what you will actually see. Cedora's own Newcastle chest sits in the French Provincial and bedroom collections rather than the Acacia Furniture one, which is the correct call. If you searched the store for acacia and expected Newcastle to appear, that is why it did not. Newcastle Acacia 6 Drawer Chest Living With Acacia in an Australian House Three things actually matter, and none of them are complicated. Heat is the first: acacia takes daily use well and takes a hot pan badly, so a mat under anything straight off the stove is the whole of the maintenance routine for most households. Standing water is the second, and the answer is to wipe rather than to leave it, particularly around the join lines where boards meet. Sun is the third and the one people underestimate here. A table parked in unfiltered afternoon light through a west-facing window will lighten unevenly over a couple of summers, and the part shaded by a fruit bowl will stay darker than the rest. Sheer curtains solve it, moving the bowl occasionally solves it, and doing neither means living with a pale rectangle you will notice forever. What you do not need is oil, polish, or a maintenance schedule. These pieces arrive sealed and the finish is not something you top up. A damp cloth and the occasional dry one covers it, and the grain handles the rest by being too busy to hold a grudge. Oxford Acacia Console Table Which Range Suits Which Room If the acacia is the reason you are here, that narrows it to twenty-three pieces and a fairly clean split. Byron suits a room where you want warmth at table height and lightness everywhere else, which is most apartments and most open-plan living areas where the furniture has to share a floor with a sofa. It also runs to a 160cm dining table, the smallest in the group, which matters in a compact space. Oxford suits a room with a wall to fill. The 180cm case pieces and the door-front timber give it more presence, and in a larger dining room or a hallway with a proper run of wall it holds its ground where a lighter piece would look lost. Both ranges cover dining and living. Neither covers a bedroom. Newcastle is the answer only if what you want is the Provincial shape, and the acacia is incidental. Buy it for the curves, the upholstered headboard and the painted finish, and treat the timber inside as what it is: the structure doing its job quietly, where nobody sees it. All three ranges list acacia on the spec sheet, but only the Acacia Furniture pieces are really about the wood. Frequently Asked Questions How many acacia pieces does Cedora make? Thirty-one across three ranges: twelve in Byron, eleven in Oxford and eight in Newcastle. On the twenty-three Byron and Oxford pieces the acacia is the surface you see. On the eight Newcastle pieces it is structural and painted over. Is Cedora's acacia furniture solid timber? The tops are solid acacia. The frames on Byron and Oxford are painted, and the sideboards and TV units in both ranges carry an MDF back panel, which sits against the wall. Every surface you set something down on is solid timber. What is the difference between Byron and Oxford acacia? Mostly where the timber stops. Byron puts acacia on the tops and paints the rest. Oxford carries it further, including onto the sideboard door fronts. Oxford also runs to larger case pieces at 180cm wide against Byron's 160cm. Does acacia furniture mark easily? Less than most pale timbers, because the grain is busy and varied enough to absorb small marks rather than frame them. Heat and standing water are the real risks, so use a mat under anything straight off the stove and wipe spills rather than leaving them. Why is Newcastle not in the Acacia Furniture collection? Because you cannot see the timber. The Acacia Furniture collection groups the pieces where acacia is the visible finish, which is Byron and Oxford. Newcastle's acacia sits inside a painted frame and behind an upholstered headboard. Related Posts What Is Acacia Wood Furniture? 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