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Six centimetres sounds like nothing until you are the person turning sideways to get past the end of the bed every morning. In a bedroom of three by three and a half metres, which describes an enormous number of second bedrooms and inner-city apartments in this country, six centimetres is the difference between a walkway and a squeeze. That is where the Bristol range earns its place. Eight pieces, a narrower bed than anything else Cedora makes, and, oddly, the roomiest drawers of the lot. Here is how the numbers actually fall. Key Takeaways The queen frame is 162.4cm wide, roughly six centimetres narrower than London or Manchester. No drawer version. Three plain frames, with the base sitting 30cm off the floor. Chest drawers are 62.5 x 37 x 20.3cm, the largest in any Cedora bedroom range. Solid oak top on a painted pine structure, with a slatted headboard and curved base. Eight pieces total, the smallest bedroom range alongside Newcastle. Where the Six Centimetres Comes From The Bristol Pine Queen Bed Frame measures W162.4 x D215.5cm. The double is W147.4 x D204.5cm and the king W192.4 x D215.5cm. Every headboard stands 120cm from the floor. A queen mattress is 153cm wide no matter whose frame it sits in, so the difference between one brand's queen bed and another is entirely the rails and the side profile. Bristol keeps that overhang to about nine and a half centimetres total. Wider frames in the same category run to sixteen. You get the same sleeping surface and you give back the difference to the floor, which is the only measurement that matters when the room is tight. The other number is the base height: 30cm from the floor to the top of the bed base. That leaves the space beneath open and honest. Flat storage boxes on castors slide under it, and unlike a fixed drawer they can be pulled from whichever side of the bed is actually free in your room. No Drawer Version, and Why That Is Not a Gap Two of Cedora's bedroom ranges offer beds with built-in drawers. Bristol does not, and if you came looking for one it is worth understanding what you are trading before you write the range off. A built-in drawer bed is heavier, costs more, and fixes the storage in place at the foot or the side of the frame. The Bristol approach leaves 30cm of clear air under the whole bed. In a small room that turns out to be more usable, not less, because the storage is not committed to one position. Suitcases go under it. Boxes go under it. A vacuum head reaches under it, which stops being true of most storage beds within a year. It is also why the frame is lighter to move, and small bedrooms get rearranged far more often than big ones. If you are furnishing a room you may reconfigure, the plain frame is not the compromise. It is the flexible option, and the storage lives in the case pieces instead. The Drawers That Do Not Match the Bed Here is the part that surprises people. The bed is the narrowest in the catalogue, but the Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest has the biggest drawers. Each of the six measures 62.5cm wide, 37cm deep and 20.3cm high inside, in a chest with exactly the same W140 x D45 x H85cm footprint that Cedora's other chests use. Nothing about the outside tells you that. The gain is in the internal engineering, and it works out at meaningfully more volume per drawer than the Hamptons ranges manage on the same wall space. If you are choosing between bedroom ranges on how much actually fits, and most people should be, that is the comparison worth making. The Bristol Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy follows the same logic. W100 x D45 x H110cm, five drawers, all of them 20.8cm high inside: two narrow ones at 42.5cm across the top, three at 87.5cm below. Uniform drawer height sounds dull and is quietly useful, because you never have to remember which drawer the thick jumpers fit in. [products-of-collection collection="bristol" heading="Shop the Bristol Collection" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-bristol-1"] The Bedside, and the 110cm Ceiling on the Tallboy The Bristol Pine 2 Drawer Bedside Table is W55 x D45 x H60cm with two drawers at 42.5cm wide and 19.2cm high inside. Sixty centimetres is the height worth measuring against your own mattress, because a bedside that lands near the top of the mattress is one you can reach a glass of water from without groping below the level of the bed. The tallboy at 110cm is the lowest in the catalogue, and in a small bedroom that is deliberate rather than mean. A tall chest in a narrow room reads as a wall, and it puts the top surface above the eye line of anyone sitting on the bed. At 110cm the top is a usable shelf and the room keeps its sense of height, which matters far more in three metres of wall than it does in five. Both pieces carry the range's two signatures: a solid oak top and a gently curved base rather than a squared plinth. The curve lifts the piece visually off the floor, and in a room where the furniture is close together that small gap under each item is what stops the whole lot reading as one continuous block. Oak on Top, Pine Underneath, and Saying So The material is a solid oak top on a solid pine structure, with the frame painted white. That is worth stating plainly because oak is a word that gets stretched. Bristol is not solid oak furniture. The oak is on the surfaces you see and put things on, the pine does the structural work underneath, and the price reflects exactly that. What the combination gives you is the part of oak you actually experience. Grain you can see across a chest top in morning light, a surface hard enough to take a lamp base being dragged across it, and a warm break against the white that keeps a small white room from looking clinical. Paying for solid oak in the parts nobody sees would change the price a great deal and the daily experience not at all. Alongside that, the Bristol Pine Mirror is 100 x 100cm and 5cm deep, and there is a Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest with Mirror if you want the pair as one purchase. In a small bedroom a square metre of mirror is not decoration, it is the cheapest way to make the far corner of the room usable in the afternoon. Who the Bristol Range Is Actually For It suits the room you are working around rather than the room you designed. Second bedrooms. Apartments where the robe eats one wall and the window eats another. Rentals where you would rather buy furniture that moves easily than furniture that commits. The Bristol range is the smallest of Cedora's four bedroom collections at eight pieces, and that constraint is doing you a favour: there is nothing here to overbuy. Where it is the wrong answer is a large main bedroom that you want to feel furnished and formal. The slatted headboard and the pale, light frame are quiet by design, and quiet in a big room reads as underfurnished. That room wants panelling and weight, which is what the Hamptons ranges are for. If you are deciding between all four, the honest shortcut is this: measure the wall, not the mattress. Bristol wins on tight floor plans and drawer volume. The others win on presence. Both are legitimate reasons to buy a bed, and only one of them is visible in a photograph. Frequently Asked Questions How wide is a Bristol queen bed frame? 162.4cm wide and 215.5cm long, with the headboard standing 120cm from the floor. That is about six centimetres narrower than Cedora's London and Manchester queen frames, which both measure 169cm. Do Bristol bed frames come with storage drawers? No. Bristol is offered as three plain frames in double, queen and king. The base sits 30cm off the floor, so the space underneath is open and takes flat storage boxes on castors if you need it. What timber is the Bristol range made from? A solid oak top on a solid pine structure, with the frame painted white. The oak is the surface you touch and see. It is not solid oak throughout, and it is not priced as though it were. How big are the Bristol chest drawers? Each of the six drawers is 62.5cm wide, 37cm deep and 20.3cm high inside. That beats the London, Manchester and Newcastle chests, which share the same 140 x 45cm footprint, though the Liverpool chest goes deeper again at 24.6cm. Is Bristol Hamptons or Scandinavian? Scandinavian. The headboard is slatted rather than panelled, the base curves gently instead of sitting on a plinth, and the oak top is left visible. Cedora's Hamptons bedroom ranges are London and Manchester. 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Most bedrooms in this country are not built for storage beds. The bed goes against one wall, a robe takes the other, and the strip of carpet left over is too narrow to open a side drawer without shuffling sideways past the corner of the mattress. That is why so many storage beds get bought once and quietly resented afterwards. The London beds solve it by putting both drawers in the footboard. They pull out toward the end of the bed, into the space you already walk through. Here is how the eleven pieces in the range work, what actually fits in those drawers, and where the trade-offs sit. Key Takeaways Both drawers open at the foot of the bed, not the sides. Drawer interiors are 43.7cm deep and 24.9cm high, in three widths by bed size. Six bed frames: double, queen and king, each with or without drawers. Solid pine structure, crisp white finish, panelled bedhead standing 120cm tall. Tallboy stores upward at 100cm wide, chest stores sideways at 140cm wide. The Drawers Open at the Foot, Not the Side This is the detail worth understanding before anything else, because it decides whether a storage bed is usable in your room or just an expensive idea. On the London Pine Queen Bed Frame with 2 Drawers the two drawers are set into the footboard on metal runners and pull out lengthways. The space they need is the walkway at the end of the bed, which every bedroom has, rather than the 60cm of side clearance that a conventional under bed drawer demands. What that buys you is freedom in the floor plan. Push the bed into a corner. Put a robe or a chest hard against one side. Run the bed under a window with a bedside table on the only free side. None of it stops the drawers working, and none of it makes you move furniture to get a jumper out in June. Each drawer measures 43.7cm deep and 24.9cm high inside. Widths follow the bed: 59cm on the double, 66.5cm on the queen and 81.5cm on the king. In practice that is spare sheet sets, towels, folded blankets and the off-season half of a wardrobe. It is not deep enough for a bulky pillow stack, so plan it as flat storage and it will not disappoint you. Three Sizes, Two Versions, One Decision There are six beds in the range: three sizes, each offered plain or with the drawers. The London Pine Double Bed Frame is W154 x D207.1cm, the London Pine Queen Bed Frame is W169 x D218.1cm and the London Pine King Bed Frame is W199 x D218.1cm. Every one carries a panelled bedhead standing 120cm from the floor, which is tall enough to sit against and read without a stack of pillows behind you. All six use a solid slat base, so there is no ensemble or separate bed base to buy. A mattress goes straight on. That matters for the drawer versions in particular, because a slat base is what leaves the volume under the bed free for the drawers to run into. The decision between plain and drawers is not really about money. It is about whether you have somewhere else for linen. If the house has a decent hallway cupboard, the plain frame keeps the footboard clean and low. If you are in an apartment or a two bedroom cottage where the linen press is a shelf above the washing machine, the drawer version quietly returns a cupboard to you. [products-of-collection collection="london-bed-frames" heading="London Bed Frames" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-london-1"] What Goes Beside the Bed The London Pine 2 Drawer Bedside Table is W55 x D45 x H60cm with two drawers, each 35.5cm wide, 38.3cm deep and 17.5cm high inside. That 60cm height is the number to check against your mattress. A bedside top that lands somewhere near the top of the mattress means you can reach a glass of water in the dark without patting around below the level of the bed, and 60cm suits most mattress and base combinations without a platform under it. Two drawers rather than one open shelf is a deliberate choice for a bedroom that other people see. A shelf displays the reading glasses, the phone charger, the half-finished blister pack of antihistamines and the receipt you meant to throw out. A drawer takes all of it and gives you back a surface with a lamp and one thing on it. The panelled fronts and round knobs match the bed and the case pieces exactly, which is the practical argument for buying a bedside from the same range rather than a cheaper pair from elsewhere. White is not one colour. Two whites in a small room that do not quite agree will bother you every morning for years. Tallboy or Chest: Store Upward or Store Sideways The two case pieces answer opposite questions. The London Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy is W100 x D45 x H120cm with five drawers: two narrow ones across the top at 39cm wide, then three full width drawers at 80.5cm. It takes a metre of wall and goes up, which is what you want when the floor is already spoken for and the only free space is a corner between a window and a door. The London Pine 6 Drawer Chest is W140 x D45 x H85cm with six drawers, each 59cm wide and 19.1cm high inside. It needs almost half a metre more wall than the tallboy and gives back a long surface at hip height, which is where a lamp, a tray for keys and watches, and a stack of folded washing waiting to be put away all end up living. In a bedroom with one long empty wall the chest is the better buy, and in a bedroom with no long empty wall it is not an option at all. Drawer depth is worth comparing too. The tallboy drawers are 22.5cm high, the chest drawers 19.1cm. Jumpers and folded denim go in the tallboy, shirts and t-shirts in the chest. The Mirror, and What Makes This Hamptons The London Pine Mirror is 100 x 100cm and just 5.5cm deep, framed in the same white with the same moulded detailing. It fixes to the top of the chest or hangs anywhere in the room, and if you want the pair together as one purchase there is a London Pine 6 Drawer Chest with Mirror sold as a set. A square metre of mirror is doing more than reflecting an outfit. Hung opposite or beside a window it takes whatever light the room gets and puts it back into the far corner, which in a south-facing bedroom or a ground floor room shaded by the neighbour's fence is the cheapest thing you can do to stop the space feeling like a cave at four in the afternoon. That is also the honest summary of what makes the London range read as Hamptons rather than plain white furniture. It is not one feature. It is the panelled fronts, the moulded edges, the plinth base and the round knobs, all in a flat white that reflects rather than shines. Put those together and you get the look without a single decorative object on the shelf, which is the version that still looks right in ten years. [products-of-collection collection="london" heading="Shop the London Collection" limit="12" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-london-2"] Frequently Asked Questions Where do the drawers on a London bed frame open? At the foot. Both drawers are built into the footboard and pull straight out toward the end of the bed, so you do not need clearance along the sides. A London bed can sit hard against a wall, or in a corner, and the storage still works. How big are the under bed drawers? Each drawer is 43.7cm deep and 24.9cm high inside. The width depends on the bed: 59cm on the double, 66.5cm on the queen and 81.5cm on the king. There are two drawers on every bed that has them. Is the London range solid timber? The structure is solid pine, finished in crisp white with panelled headboards, moulded edges and a plinth base. The beds use a solid slat base, so no separate ensemble or bed base is needed under the mattress. What is the difference between the London tallboy and the chest? Footprint. The tallboy is 100cm wide and 120cm tall with five drawers, so it stores upward. The chest is 140cm wide and 85cm tall with six drawers, so it stores sideways and gives you a usable surface at hip height. Can the London mirror be used on its own? Yes. It measures 100 x 100cm and only 5.5cm deep. It can be fixed to the top of the London chest or hung by itself on any wall in the room. Related Posts Storage Bed Frame vs Regular Bed: Which One Fits Your Bedroom? Hamptons Bedroom Style: Create a Light Elegant Coastal Retreat Timber Bed Frames Australia: The Complete Buying Guide Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.

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.

Australian bedrooms are storage poor and nobody warns you. Older homes have a single robe with one shelf and a hanging rail. Newer builds hand you a walk-in that turns out to be a corridor with hangers. Either way the overflow ends up in the same three places: on a chair, under the bed in a shopping bag, and in a plastic tub in the garage. The Manchester range answers that arithmetically. One of each piece gives a bedroom fifteen drawers, in four distinct sizes, each of which is genuinely suited to different things. Here is what each one measures and what it will actually hold. Key Takeaways Fifteen drawers total: two in the bed, two in the bedside, five in the tallboy, six in the chest. Under bed drawers are 43cm deep and 25.9cm high, opening at the foot of the bed. Tallboy stands 114cm tall on a 100cm footprint, chest is 85cm tall and 140cm wide. Every case piece is 45cm deep, so they line up on one wall. Solid pine structure, crisp white finish, panelled fronts and round silver handles. Two in the Bed, Costing You No Floor Space The Manchester Pine Queen Bed Frame with 2 Drawers carries its two drawers in the footboard, so they pull out toward the end of the bed instead of along the sides. That is the difference between storage you use and storage you gave up on, because the walkway at the foot of the bed is space every bedroom already has, while 60cm of clear floor down one side is space most do not. Inside, each drawer is 43cm deep and 25.9cm high. The queen drawers are 70cm wide and the king drawers 85cm. The bases are lined, which matters more than it sounds: a lined drawer under a bed does not sand the finish off folded clothing every time it rolls in and out. What fits is flat, seasonal and infrequent. Spare sheet sets. Beach towels between December and March. The winter layers you will not touch until May. What does not fit is anything with loft, so do not plan on hiding a spare doona in there and then feeling cheated. All three sizes come both ways. If the linen already has a home, the plain double and king frames keep the footboard lower and the room visually quieter. If it does not, the double with drawers is the version that buys back a cupboard, and in a second bedroom or a kid's room that cupboard is usually the one you needed. Two Beside the Bed, and What They Are Really For The Manchester Pine 2 Drawer Bedside Table is W55 x D45 x H60cm, with two drawers measuring 37.5cm wide, 37cm deep and 18.6cm high inside. That is not a lot of volume, and it is not meant to be. A bedside drawer is the fastest storage in the house to fill with things you never look at again, which is why two shallow ones beat one deep one. The 60cm height is the number worth checking before you buy. It wants to land somewhere near the top of your mattress so that reaching a glass of water at two in the morning does not involve groping around below the level of the bed. Most mattress and base combinations land between 55cm and 65cm, so 60cm sits comfortably in the middle. Two drawers rather than an open shelf is also a decision about who sees your bedroom. A shelf puts the charger cable, the blister pack and the hair ties on permanent display. A drawer takes all of it and gives you back a clear surface for a lamp and one book. Five in the Tallboy, Stacked Upward The Manchester Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy is W100 x D45 x H114cm. Two narrow drawers sit across the top at 38cm wide and 19.9cm high, then three full width drawers at 81.5cm wide and 22.5cm high. The split is the useful part. The small top pair takes socks, underwear, belts and the things that disappear into a big drawer forever, while the three below take folded jumpers and denim. The height is worth noting against your room. At 114cm the tallboy clears most bedside heights and still passes under a standard window sill, which is what lets it go in the awkward metre of wall between a window and a door frame that no other piece of furniture fits. A metre of wall for five drawers is the best exchange rate in the range. The trade-off is the top surface. At 114cm it is above eye line for anyone sitting down and just below eye line standing, so it works for a plant and a tray, not for a mirror and a morning routine. If you want a surface to get ready at, you want the chest instead. [products-of-collection collection="manchester" heading="Shop the Manchester Collection" limit="12" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-manchester-1"] Six in the Chest, Spread Sideways The Manchester Pine 6 Drawer Chest is W140 x D45 x H85cm with six drawers, each 59cm wide, 37cm deep and 20.6cm high. Six drawers of one consistent size is a different proposition to the tallboy: nothing is sized for small items, so this is the piece for clothing in volume, plus the linen that has nowhere else to go. The 85cm height is the real reason to choose it. That is bench height, which turns the top into the place a lamp lives, where the tray for keys and a watch sits, and where the folded washing waits for two days before anyone puts it away. In a bedroom that has to do the job of a dressing room, that surface earns more than the sixth drawer does. The cost is wall. At 140cm it needs a genuinely empty run, and the moment you add the Manchester Pine Mirror above it you are committing that wall permanently. Worth measuring before you fall for it, because a chest in the wrong spot blocks a robe door and there is no fixing that afterwards. The Mirror, and the Cheapest Fix for a Dark Room The mirror is 100 x 100cm and only 5cm deep, framed in the same white with the same moulded detailing. It attaches to the top of the chest or hangs on its own, and if you want the two as a single purchase there is a Manchester Pine 6 Drawer Chest With Mirror. There is a reason the mirror belongs in this range in particular. A bedroom carrying fifteen drawers is a bedroom carrying a lot of closed timber, and closed timber absorbs a room. Hang a square metre of glass above the chest and half of that mass reads as depth instead of bulk. It is the one piece here that gives space back rather than taking it, which is why it is worth buying at the same time as the chest and not two years later. It also does the job the range is quietly built around. The Manchester pieces are white on purpose, not because white is fashionable but because a room with fifteen drawers in it can very easily read as a wall of furniture. White, with panelled fronts that break the surface into smaller shapes, keeps a heavily furnished bedroom feeling lighter than it has any right to. What Fifteen Drawers Costs in Floor Space Here is the honest maths before you buy the lot. Every case piece is 45cm deep, which is the number that matters in a narrow room, because 45cm out from the wall is what you lose. Along the wall, the chest takes 140cm, the tallboy 100cm and each bedside table 55cm. One of each, plus a pair of bedsides, needs roughly 4.7 metres of wall that is not already a door, a window or a robe. Most Australian bedrooms do not have that, and the answer is not to squeeze. It is to choose between the tallboy and the chest rather than buying both, which drops you to eleven or twelve drawers and about 3 metres of wall. The bed, the bedsides and one case piece is a complete bedroom, and it is the combination most rooms should be buying. Start with the bed and one storage piece, live with it for a season, and add the second only if you still need it. Furniture bought in that order almost never ends up in the garage, which is the fate of most of the plastic tubs it replaces. Frequently Asked Questions How many drawers are in the Manchester collection? Fifteen, if you buy one of each storage piece. Two in the footboard of the bed, two in the bedside table, five in the tallboy and six in the chest. Bought separately, each piece still works on its own. How big are the Manchester under bed drawers? Each drawer is 43cm deep and 25.9cm high inside. The queen drawers are 70cm wide and the king drawers 85cm wide. There are two on every bed frame that has them, and they pull out at the foot of the bed rather than the sides. Which is better, the Manchester tallboy or the chest? It depends on your wall, not your wardrobe. The tallboy is 100cm wide and 114cm tall. The chest is 140cm wide and 85cm tall and gives you a surface at hip height. If you have one long empty wall, take the chest. If all you have is a corner, take the tallboy. Is Manchester furniture solid timber? The structure is solid pine, finished in crisp white with panelled fronts, moulded edges and round silver handles. The bed frames use a slat base, so no separate bed base is needed. How much wall does a full Manchester bedroom need? Roughly 4.7 metres of wall in total, not counting the bed. The chest takes 140cm, the tallboy 100cm, and two bedside tables 55cm each. Every case piece is 45cm deep. Related Posts Why the London Collection Keeps Its Drawers at the Foot of the Bed Bedside Table Height Guide: The Perfect Rule for Your Bedroom Hamptons Bedroom Style: Create a Light Elegant Coastal Retreat Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.

A mirror is the one piece of bedroom furniture people buy on looks alone. It has no drawers to count and no weight rating to check, so the decision gets made on the frame and nothing else, and then it goes up on the wall and something feels off. What is usually off is arithmetic. There are six mirrors in the Cedora range: four squares of 100 x 100cm and two circles of 90cm. Those two shapes are not style options, they are two different pieces of furniture, and the chest of drawers underneath is what separates them. Key Takeaways Four mirrors are 100cm squares, two are 90cm circles, and nothing in between. The squares are sized for a 140cm chest, leaving 20cm of clear surface each side. Sitting on an 85cm chest, a square mirror cuts the reflection off near your ankles. Only the round Liverpool mirror lets you choose your own hanging height. Depth runs 4cm to 5.5cm, so none of them projects far into a narrow room. Four Squares and Two Circles, Nothing in Between The London Pine Mirror, the Manchester Pine Mirror, the Bristol Pine Mirror and the Newcastle Acacia Mirror are all 100cm wide by 100cm high. The London is 5.5cm deep and the other three are 5cm. In every practical sense they are the same object wearing four different frames. The other two are the Liverpool Pine Mirror - Natural and the Liverpool Pine Mirror - Black, both round, both 90cm across and 4cm deep. There is no oval, no tall rectangle and no leaner in the range, which sounds like a limitation until you notice that the four squares all exist for the same reason. The frames are where the ranges separate themselves. London and Manchester are crisp white with moulded detailing, the Newcastle adds a shaped crown across the top, and the Bristol runs a timber rail along the top edge that picks up the oak top of the matching chest. The Liverpool circles are the only ones with no painted white in them at all. The Squares Are Sized for the Chest, Not the Wall Every six drawer chest in the Cedora range is 140 x 45 x 85cm. Set a 100cm mirror on top of one and you get 20cm of clear chest surface on either side, which is not an accident. That is enough room for a lamp on one side and a tray on the other, and not enough for anyone to start stacking things in front of the glass. The London and Manchester mirrors are built to attach to their chests, so the two pieces become one unit and there is no gap collecting dust behind them. The Bristol and Newcastle are made to pair with theirs visually rather than mechanically. Either way the geometry is the same and the mirror inherits its height from the furniture. That is the part worth understanding before you buy. A mirror that hangs is a decision you make with a pencil and a spirit level. A mirror that sits on a chest is a decision the chest already made for you at the factory, and the only variable left is which wall the chest goes on. Why It Stops at Your Ankles Here is the arithmetic that catches people out. A flat mirror shows you a point on your body reflected at half the height between your eyes and that point, which is why a mirror only has to be half your height to show all of you. A 100cm mirror is easily big enough. Where it sits is the problem. Resting on an 85cm chest, the bottom edge of the glass is 85cm off the floor. For someone around 175cm tall, with eyes at roughly 163cm, the lowest thing that bottom edge can reflect is about 7cm above the floor: your ankles, your socks, and not your shoes. The top edge at 185cm, meanwhile, is showing you about 16cm of the ceiling behind your head. None of that makes it a bad mirror. It makes it a mirror for checking a shirt, doing your hair and putting on earrings, which is what a bedroom mirror above a chest is genuinely used for at seven in the morning. It just means that if you want to see the shoes before you leave, that check happens somewhere else in the house. [products-of-collection collection="mirror" heading="Shop Bedroom Mirrors and Chest Sets" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-mirror-1"] The Round Ones Solve What the Squares Cannot A mirror on the wall can go wherever you put it, and the Liverpool circles are the only two in the range that give you that choice. At 90cm across they are slightly smaller than the squares, but hung with the centre of the glass at 150cm to 155cm they sit at standing eye level, and the reflection then reaches far enough down to be useful. The shape earns its place in a small room too. A circle has no corners to crowd a doorway or a wardrobe, and it reads as lighter on a wall than the same area of square glass. In a bedroom where the mirror has to go on a narrow strip of wall between a window and a robe, that difference decides whether the piece looks placed or squeezed. The two finishes point in opposite directions. The natural has a warm oak toned frame that disappears into a light room, while the black is a matte contrast piece that draws the eye to whatever it hangs above. Both are 4cm deep, and neither needs a chest underneath to make sense of it. What a Square Metre of Glass Does to a Dark Bedroom Australian bedrooms are frequently the worst lit rooms in the house. Builders put the living areas on the good aspect and leave the bedrooms facing a fence, a side path or a neighbour's wall two metres away. By four in the afternoon the room needs a light on, in a country with more sunshine than it knows what to do with. A mirror is the cheapest correction available. One square metre of glass placed on the wall beside or opposite the window collects whatever daylight enters and throws it into the corner that never gets any. The effect is strongest when the mirror can see actual sky rather than the reflection of another wall, so the wall you choose matters more than the frame you choose. It also does something for the sense of size that paint colour cannot. A mirror on the long wall of a narrow bedroom reads as a second window, and a room with two apparent windows feels wider than the same room with one. That is not decorating advice, it is the reason the piece is worth its wall space in the first place. Buying It With the Chest or Buying It Later Two of the pairs are also sold as one item, the London Pine 6 Drawer Chest with Mirror and the Newcastle Acacia 6 Drawer Chest with Mirror, which is the simpler route if you know the mirror is going above the chest anyway. Buying the two pieces separately costs roughly the same and gives you the option to change your mind about where the glass ends up. If you are hanging rather than resting, the fixing matters more than anything discussed so far. These are timber framed mirrors, not lightweight plastic, and they need a proper wall fixing into a stud or a rated anchor into plasterboard. A mirror that comes down takes the wall with it, and in a bedroom it does that above a bed. The last thing to check is the reflection itself. Stand where the mirror will hang and look back: whatever you see there is what the mirror will show the room, every day, permanently. A mirror facing a window is a second window and a mirror facing a laundry basket is a second laundry basket. The bedroom mirror range gives you the shape and the frame, but the wall does the rest. Frequently Asked Questions How big should a bedroom mirror above a chest of drawers be? Narrower than the chest, and by a clear margin. The Cedora chests are 140cm wide and the square mirrors are 100cm, which leaves 20cm of clear top on either side. That gap is what stops the arrangement looking like a wardrobe door, and it is also where the lamp goes. How high should a bedroom mirror be hung? For a mirror hanging on its own, centre the glass around 150cm to 155cm from the floor so it sits at standing eye level. For a mirror resting on a chest the height is already decided: the chest is 85cm, so the mirror starts there whether that suits you or not. Can you see your whole outfit in a 100cm mirror? Not when it sits on a chest. The bottom edge lands at 85cm above the floor, which cuts the reflection off around ankle height for most adults. You get head, torso and legs to the shin, which is enough to check a shirt and not enough to check shoes. Do the mirrors attach to the chest of drawers? The London and Manchester mirrors are made to attach securely to their matching chest, and both can also be used on their own. The Bristol and Newcastle mirrors are made to pair with their chests visually. The Liverpool mirror is round and hangs on the wall. What shape of bedroom mirror suits a small room? A round one, because it takes less wall area for the same visual presence and has no corner to catch your eye or your shoulder. The Liverpool mirror is 90cm across and only 4cm deep, so it projects less from the wall than a light switch plate and a door frame combined. Related Posts How to Choose a Mirror Chest of Drawers Height: Standard Sizes and Choosing Guide How to Style a Chest of Drawers: A Simple Formula Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.

The French Provincial range is the only genuinely decorated furniture in this catalogue. Everything else runs to straight edges and flat fronts. These eight pieces have bowed drawer fronts, curved legs that scroll at the foot, shaped aprons and an arched headboard, and they look like they came from a different century than the rest of the store. Which raises a fair question if you are shopping on measurements: does all that shape cost you anything practical? It does, and the number is about eight centimetres. Here is where it goes. Key Takeaways Eight pieces, all bedroom, and no dining or living furniture in the range at all. The chest is 140 x 45 x 85cm and the tallboy 100 x 45 x 114cm, both standard. Chest drawers are 16cm deep inside, the shallowest in the catalogue by 8.6cm. The bedside table is 64.4cm tall, taller than any other bedside here. Every case piece is a painted frame with a timber top and dark bail handles. Eight Pieces, One Room, and That Is the Whole Range The list is short. Three bed sizes, one bedside table, one chest, one tallboy, one mirror, and the chest and mirror offered together as a set. That is the complete French Provincial offering, and unlike most ranges here it does not stretch into the dining room or the living room at any point. The Newcastle Acacia Queen Bed Frame sets the tone: a painted frame with an arched top, an upholstered headboard panel and shaped legs that curve out at the foot. There is a double and a king built the same way, all standing 123.5cm at the headboard. Everything else follows the bed. The Newcastle Acacia 2 Drawer Bedside Table, the Newcastle Acacia 6 Drawer Chest and the Newcastle Acacia 5 Drawer Tallboy all carry a timber top over a painted frame, bowed drawer fronts, dark bail handles and the same curved legs. It is the most internally consistent range in the catalogue. Newcastle Acacia 2 Drawer Bedside Table The Boxes Are Exactly Standard Here is what surprises people who compare on paper. For all the shaping, the chest is 140cm wide, 45cm deep and 85cm high, which is the identical footprint of every other six drawer chest in the catalogue. The tallboy is 100 x 45 x 114cm, matching two other ranges to the centimetre. The mirror is a 100cm square. That is genuinely useful information. It means a French Provincial chest drops into the exact space a plain modern chest occupies, so you can swap one for the other without re measuring the wall, and you can put this chest in a room where the rest of the furniture came from somewhere else and it will line up. It also means the usual planning numbers apply. Forty five centimetres out from the wall, 140cm along it for the chest, one metre for the tallboy. The curves live inside those dimensions rather than adding to them, because the shaped legs tuck under the carcass rather than splaying past it. Newcastle Acacia 6 Drawer Chest [products-of-collection collection="french-provincial-furniture" heading="Shop the French Provincial Range" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-provincial-1"] But the Drawers Are the Shallowest in the Catalogue This is where the decoration is paid for. The chest drawers measure 62.35 x 37.8 x 16cm inside. Sixteen centimetres is the shallowest drawer in any chest here, and the deepest range in the catalogue runs 24.6cm. Same outside dimensions, 8.6cm less depth inside every one of the six drawers. The tallboy tells the same story at 18.5cm across all five drawers, where comparable tallboys run 20.8cm to 22.5cm. The bedside drawers are 15.1cm. Nothing here is broken, it is simply that a bowed front, a thicker shaped carcass and a decorative apron under the bottom drawer all take their space from somewhere, and that somewhere is inside. In practice a 16cm drawer takes folded t-shirts, underwear, socks and anything flat, and it flattens a chunky jumper into a pancake. If your winter storage is knitwear rather than shirts, plan on the chest holding perhaps two thirds of what a flat fronted chest of the same size would. That is the honest trade for the way it looks. Newcastle Acacia 5 Drawer Tallboy The Bedside Table Is the Tallest One Here At 64.4cm the Newcastle bedside is the tallest in the catalogue. The others land between 55.9cm and 60cm, so this one stands roughly 5cm proud of the pack, and that is a number worth checking against your own bed before ordering. Most mattress tops in Australian bedrooms finish between 55cm and 65cm off the floor once the base and the mattress are stacked. Against a traditional base with a deep mattress, 64.4cm is close to perfect: the surface sits level with where your hand naturally lands. Against a low platform bed at 45cm, it will loom. The two drawers are 42.6 x 34.7 x 15.1cm, so the same shallow rule applies. That is fine for a bedside, where the contents are a book, a charger, hand cream and the blister pack of paracetamol nobody admits to. Bedside drawers are the one place in the house where shallow is the correct answer. The Mirror Finishes It, and It Sits Rather Than Hangs The Newcastle Acacia Mirror is 100 x 100cm and 5cm deep, framed in the same white with a shaped and scrolled crown across the top. It is built to pair with the chest, which is why the two are also sold together as the Newcastle Acacia 6 Drawer Chest with Mirror. Resting on an 85cm chest, the top of that mirror lands at 185cm, and the bottom of the glass at 85cm. It is a face and torso mirror rather than a full length one, which is what a bedroom mirror above a chest is actually used for while you are putting earrings in at seven in the morning. The shaped crown is the detail that makes the range read as period rather than merely painted. It is also the reason to leave clear wall above the chest: a mirror with a decorative top set 15cm below a picture rail looks cramped in a way a plain rectangle would not. Newcastle Acacia Mirror Who the Range Is Actually For Period homes, first. In a Federation or interwar bedroom with high ceilings, deep skirtings and a picture rail, this furniture matches the architecture instead of arguing with it, and the curved legs stop the room reading as a box full of rectangles. In a plain modern bedroom it still works, but the rule changes: buy one piece, not the set. A single shaped chest against a flat white wall reads as a deliberate choice. The full set in a new build bedroom with square skirting and a flush door starts to look like a stage set, because there is nothing in the room for the detail to answer to. The other thing it needs is air. Shaped legs and a scrolled apron only exist to be seen, so a piece jammed into an alcove with 3cm either side has given up most of what it is for. Give the French Provincial range a wall it can be looked at from across the room, and the shallower drawers stop mattering. Frequently Asked Questions What is in the French Provincial range? Eight pieces, all bedroom: three bed sizes, a two drawer bedside table, a six drawer chest, a five drawer tallboy, a mirror, and the chest and mirror sold together as a set. There is no dining or living furniture in it at all. What are the dimensions of the French Provincial chest and tallboy? The chest is 140 x 45 x 85cm and the tallboy is 100 x 45 x 114cm, which are exactly the dimensions every other chest and tallboy in the catalogue uses. Despite the shaped fronts and curved legs, these pieces occupy standard footprints. Why are the drawers shallower than other ranges? Because the bowed front and the shaped apron take their space from inside. The chest drawers are 16cm high internally against 24.6cm in the deepest range here, so the same 85cm tall cabinet holds noticeably less than a flat fronted one. How tall is the French Provincial bedside table? 64.4cm, which is the tallest bedside table in the catalogue. Everything else sits between 55.9cm and 60cm. Against a high mattress that extra height is useful, and against a low platform bed it will stand noticeably proud of the mattress top. Does French Provincial furniture suit a modern house? It can, but it needs space around it. The shaped legs and curved fronts read best with room to be seen, so a piece pushed into a tight alcove loses everything you paid for. In a plain modern bedroom, one piece works better than a full set. Related Posts The Newcastle Collection The Tallboy Holds Nearly as Much as a Chest 40cm Wider Why a 100cm Bedroom Mirror Stops at Your Ankles Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.

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Two pieces of bedroom furniture, one 140cm wide and one 100cm. One with six drawers, one with five. The wider one with more drawers holds more: that is the assumption almost everybody makes, and in this catalogue it is wrong four times out of five. Cedora builds both to a fixed grid, which makes them unusually easy to compare. Every six drawer chest is 140 x 45 x 85cm. Every five drawer tallboy is 100cm wide and 45cm deep. Measure the drawers rather than the boxes and the gap between them almost disappears. Key Takeaways Every chest is 140 x 45 x 85cm; every tallboy is 100cm wide and 45cm deep. Tallboy heights run from 100cm to 120cm depending on the range, a 20cm spread. In four of five ranges the two pieces hold within eight percent of each other. The tallboy takes 0.45 square metres of floor against 0.63 for the chest. What the extra 40cm of wall really buys is a usable surface at 85cm, not capacity. Every Chest Is 140cm Wide and Every Tallboy Is 100cm Five ranges make both pieces, and the outside dimensions do not vary at all on the chests. The London Pine 6 Drawer Chest, the Manchester Pine 6 Drawer Chest, the Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest, the Newcastle Acacia 6 Drawer Chest and the Liverpool Pine 6 Drawer Chest - Natural are all 140 x 45 x 85cm. The tallboys hold width and depth at 100cm and 45cm but move on height. The Liverpool Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy - Natural stops at 100cm, the Bristol Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy reaches 110cm, the Newcastle Acacia 5 Drawer Tallboy and Manchester Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy both land on 114cm, and the London Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy goes to 120cm. The number that never changes is 45cm of depth, and it is the one worth writing on your hand. In a bedroom, depth is what you lose from the walkway beside the bed, and 45cm out from the wall is the same loss whichever piece you buy. Everything else about this decision is a trade between wall and height. Five Drawers That Are Not Five Equal Drawers Every tallboy here uses the same layout: two narrow drawers side by side across the top, then three full width drawers below. It looks like a styling choice and it is not. A single wide drawer is where small items go to disappear, so the range splits the top row in two and gives you a compartment sized for the things you reach for daily. The numbers vary a little by range. The Bristol runs top drawers at 42.5 x 37 x 20.8cm and lower drawers at 87.5cm wide. The London goes narrower and taller at 39cm across the top and 22.5cm deep inside, with 80.5cm lower drawers. The Newcastle has the widest lower drawers in the range at 87.6cm, and the shallowest at 18.5cm. In use that split is what makes a tallboy work in a room where two people share one piece of furniture. The two small drawers become one each, and the three below hold the folded clothing that neither of you needs to see every morning. A chest cannot make that division because all six of its drawers are the same size. London Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy [products-of-collection collection="tallboy" heading="Shop Cedora Tallboys" limit="6" columns="3" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-drawers-1"] Six Drawers That Really Are Six Equal Drawers The chests take the opposite approach: two columns of three identical drawers, 59cm to 63cm wide depending on the range, all the same size within a given piece. Nothing on a chest is sized for small items, and that is the design decision that shapes what it is good at. Interior heights are where the ranges genuinely separate. The Liverpool Pine 6 Drawer Chest - Black and its natural twin run 24.6cm deep inside, the deepest drawer in the catalogue. The Manchester sits at 20.6cm, the Bristol at 20.3cm, the London at 19.1cm, and the Newcastle at 16cm, which is a full 8.6cm shallower than the Liverpool. That range matters more than the drawer count. A 16cm drawer takes folded t-shirts and flattens anything thicker. A 24.6cm drawer takes a stack of jumpers without compressing the one on the bottom into a sheet. If you buy chests by looking at the outside, all five of these look identical, and inside they are not. Liverpool Pine 6 Drawer Chest - Natural [products-of-collection collection="chest" heading="Shop Cedora Chests of Drawers" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-drawers-2"] The Capacity Gap Is Smaller Than the Width Gap Multiply the internal dimensions out and the comparison becomes concrete. In the London range the tallboy holds roughly 275 litres against the chest at 259. In the Newcastle range it is 243 against 226. Both times the five drawer tallboy, on 40cm less wall, wins. The other three go the other way by similar margins. Manchester is 260 litres for the tallboy against 270 for the chest, Bristol 267 against 282. Only Liverpool breaks the pattern properly, where those 24.6cm drawers give the chest about 344 litres against 282 for the tallboy, a genuine 22 percent gap. So the honest summary is this: outside the Liverpool range, the number of drawers tells you nothing about capacity. The chest is 40 percent wider and holds within eight percent of the same volume, because the tallboy simply stacks the same drawer area upward instead of spreading it sideways. London Pine 6 Drawer Chest What the Extra 40cm of Wall Actually Buys If it is not capacity, it is the top. A chest at 85cm puts a usable surface at hip height, which is the height a kitchen bench is built at for the same reason. That surface holds a lamp, a tray, a folded pile of washing waiting two days to be put away, and it is where the matching mirror goes. A tallboy top at 110cm or 120cm is a different object. It is above the eye line of anyone sitting on the bed and just below the eye line of anyone standing, which makes it good for a plant and useless as a place to get ready. Nothing you put up there gets seen properly, and nothing you put up there is easy to reach. There is a second cost to height, and it is a safety one. A loaded tallboy is top heavy, and a child who opens the lower drawers and climbs them can bring the whole piece down. Anchor anything over a metre to a wall stud or a rated plasterboard fixing, and do it on the day it arrives rather than the weekend after. Newcastle Acacia 5 Drawer Tallboy Which One the Room Picks for You Start with the wall rather than the wardrobe. One clear run of 140cm with nothing crossing it, no door swing and no robe track, and the chest is the better buy every time: same storage, better surface, lower profile in a small room. That run is rarer in Australian bedrooms than people expect once the bed, the robe and the window are placed. If what you actually have is a metre of wall in a corner, between a window and a door frame, the tallboy is not a compromise. It is the piece designed for that gap, and outside the Liverpool range it gives up almost nothing in return. Check the height against the window sill and the light switch before ordering, because the difference between the 100cm Liverpool and the 120cm London decides whether it passes under or blocks it. The rooms that need both are the ones with two people and one wardrobe, and there the split is easy: the chest with its mirror takes the long wall and does the morning routine, and the tallboy takes the corner and swallows everything seasonal. Between the tallboy range and the chests, the room decides, not the drawer count. Frequently Asked Questions Does a tallboy hold less than a chest of drawers? Barely. Measured drawer by drawer, four of the five Cedora ranges put the tallboy and the chest within eight percent of each other, and in the London and Newcastle ranges the five drawer tallboy actually holds more than the six drawer chest. What are the standard dimensions of a tallboy and a chest? Across this range every six drawer chest is 140cm wide, 45cm deep and 85cm high. Every five drawer tallboy is 100cm wide and 45cm deep, with heights from 100cm to 120cm depending on the range. Depth is the one number that never changes. Why does a tallboy have two small drawers at the top? Because a full width drawer is a bad home for small things. The two top drawers run 38cm to 43cm wide, which suits socks, underwear, belts and jewellery, while the three below run 80cm to 88cm wide for folded jumpers and denim. Which is better for a small bedroom? The tallboy, on floor space alone. It occupies 0.45 square metres against the chest at 0.63, which is 40 percent less floor for a similar amount of storage. The trade is that you lose the usable surface at hip height. Do tallboys need to be anchored to the wall? Yes. Anything over a metre tall with drawers that pull out is top heavy once the upper drawers are loaded, and a child climbing an open drawer can bring it over. Fix it to a stud or use a rated plasterboard anchor, particularly in a child's room. Related Posts Tallboy vs Chest of Drawers: Which One Should You Choose? Chest of Drawers Height: Standard Sizes and Choosing Guide How to Choose a Tallboy: The Ultimate Guide for Bedroom Storage Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.

Pine has a reputation problem in this country, and it is not entirely undeserved. Say the word and most people picture a flat-pack bookshelf, an unfinished student desk, or the orange-tinged bedroom suite that came with a rental in 1998. It is the timber people assume they are settling for. So it is worth knowing that pine sits inside 105 of the 128 pieces Cedora currently sells, across six of its eight ranges, and that in not one of them is it what you look at. It is under paint, under an oak top, under veneer, or holding up a set of solid oak legs. Here is where it goes and why that is a deliberate decision rather than a corner cut. Key Takeaways Pine is in 105 of 128 active pieces, across six of the eight ranges. Only Byron and Oxford contain no pine. Both are solid acacia. In every range pine is structural, never the visible finish. London, Manchester and Newcastle paint over it. Bristol tops it with oak. Liverpool veneers it. Richmond pairs a pine structure with solid oak legs. What Pine Is Actually Doing in There Structural timber has a different job from surface timber, and the qualities that make a good frame are not the ones that make a good tabletop. A frame needs to stay dimensionally stable through a Melbourne winter and a Brisbane summer, hold a screw without splitting, and not weigh so much that a bed cannot be carried up a staircase. Pine does all three, which is why it has held the job for a century. What it does not do well is sit exposed on a surface that gets used. It is softer than oak or acacia, so it takes a dent where they would take a scratch, and bare pine yellows unevenly in Australian light. Both of those problems disappear the moment the timber is painted, topped or veneered, which is precisely what every Cedora range does with it. So the honest way to read a spec sheet that says solid pine structure is not "this is a cheap timber". It is "the money in this piece went somewhere you will actually see". Whether that trade is a good one depends entirely on where the maker then spent it, which is the useful comparison between the ranges. London and Manchester: Pine Under Paint Twenty-two pieces between them, all listed as a solid pine structure, all finished in crisp white. This is the most straightforward use of the timber in the catalogue, and the one where the logic is clearest. Paint does not care about grain. A painted panel on pine and a painted panel on oak look identical from a metre away, and one of them costs a great deal more to make. What that buys instead is detail. Both ranges carry panelled fronts, moulded edges and a plinth base, all of which are shaping and joinery rather than material. Put the budget into a plain hardwood carcass and you get plain furniture in nice timber. Put it into pine and profiling and you get the London Pine 6 Drawer Chest at W140 x D45 x H85cm, or the Manchester Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy at W100 x D45 x H114cm, both of which read as considerably more expensive than they are. Pine also earns its place structurally in the bed frames. The London Pine Queen Bed Frame with 2 Drawers carries two drawers in its footboard on metal runners, and a drawer that runs on a frame needs that frame to stay square for years. A light, stable timber is not a compromise there. It is the correct engineering answer. Manchester Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy [products-of-collection collection="hamptons-bedroom-furniture" heading="Painted Pine Bedroom Furniture" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-pine-1"] Bristol: Pine Under an Oak Top Bristol's eight pieces take a different route. The material is recorded as an oak top on a solid pine structure, which splits the piece along exactly the line where it matters: hardwood on the horizontal surfaces that take wear, pine in the vertical carcass that does not. It is the most efficient version of the idea in the catalogue. On a Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest the only part that meets a lamp base, a set of keys or a coffee cup is oak. The sides, the back and the drawer boxes are pine, and nothing about that is visible or, frankly, relevant to how the piece lives. You pay for hardwood on the square metre that needs it. Bristol is also the range that shows what pine buys you in flexibility. Its queen frame is 162.4cm wide against 169cm for the painted Hamptons frames, and the tallboy is 110cm tall rather than 114cm or 120cm. Lighter structural timber makes those proportions easier to draw, and in a small bedroom the few centimetres are worth more than the material story. Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest Liverpool and Richmond: Under Veneer, Behind Oak Legs The two largest ranges use pine in the two remaining ways. Liverpool, at forty pieces, is listed as a solid pine frame with oak veneer across thirty-four of them, and the six bed frames as pine with MDFV oak and a fabric headboard. Veneer gets a bad name it has not deserved for decades: a thin oak surface over a stable pine core is more dimensionally reliable across a wide panel than solid oak is, because it does not move with the seasons the same way. Richmond takes the opposite approach across its twenty-seven pieces, pairing a pine structure with solid oak legs. The oak goes exactly where the load and the knocks concentrate, at the corners a chair hits every day, and the pine does the spanning work in between. The Richmond Pine Dining Table 240cm - Natural is a two and a half metre span held up by that combination. Between the two, that is sixty-seven of the 105 pine pieces, and neither of them is sold as pine furniture. Nobody browsing the Liverpool range is thinking about the frame under the veneer, which is rather the point of a well-made frame. Richmond Pine Dining Table 240cm - Natural Should You Care That It Is Pine Only in two situations, and it is worth being direct about both. The first is if you are buying an exposed timber surface and the spec sheet says pine with no top and no veneer, which in this catalogue does not happen, but does happen elsewhere. Bare pine on a dining table will show every fork and every hot mug within a year. The second is weight and permanence. Pine-framed furniture is lighter, which is a genuine advantage in a rental or a house you rearrange, and a mild disadvantage if you want a piece that feels immovable. A solid hardwood chest announces itself when you push it. A painted pine one of the same size does not, and some people want that heft. Everything else is noise. Care is the same as for any sealed timber furniture: wipe rather than soak, mats under hot dishes, and keep pieces out of unfiltered afternoon sun. The structure underneath will outlast your interest in the colour, which is the most anyone should ask of a frame. Bristol Pine Queen Bed Frame [products-of-collection collection="liverpool" heading="Pine Framed, Oak Veneered" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-pine-2"] Frequently Asked Questions How much of Cedora's range is pine? Pine appears in 105 of the 128 pieces currently in the range, across six of the eight collections. Only Byron and Oxford contain no pine at all. In every one of those 105 pieces it is structural rather than the visible finish. Is pine furniture strong enough for a bed frame? Yes, and it is the standard choice for one. Pine is stable, holds a fixing well and is light enough that a queen frame can be moved by two people. Cedora's London, Manchester and Bristol bed frames all use a solid pine structure with a slat base. Does pine dent more easily than oak? It does. Pine is softer, so it takes a dent where a harder timber would take a scratch. It matters on a surface and barely matters on a frame, which is why Cedora paints it, tops it or veneers it rather than leaving it exposed. Which Cedora ranges have no pine? Byron and Oxford. Both are built from solid acacia, with an MDF back panel on the sideboards and TV units. Everything else in the catalogue has pine somewhere inside it. Why is painted pine cheaper than solid hardwood? Because the money goes where it does work. A painted frame does not need the grain of an expensive board, so the budget moves to the parts you see and touch. That is the trade behind most of the price gap between ranges. Related Posts Solid Wood vs Veneer vs MDF: Which Furniture Is Best for You? 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There are 33 pieces of black furniture in this catalogue and they behave differently from every other group in it. Black is not a range and it is not a style. It is a finish that runs across two ranges and stops dead at the edge of them. What that means in practice is that you can furnish three entire rooms in it, and the moment you want a fourth thing, the answer is often no. Here is exactly what black covers, room by room, and the two places where it runs out. Key Takeaways Thirty three black pieces: 20 from Liverpool and 13 from Richmond, and nothing else. A complete black bedroom exists, and every piece of it is Liverpool. The dining room is the only one where both ranges give you a choice. Both coffee tables are 45cm high, but the sideboards are 11cm apart. Six of the eight ranges have no black version of any piece. Thirty Three Pieces, Two Ranges, Three Rooms The split is 20 Liverpool and 13 Richmond. Between them they cover bed frames, bedside tables, chests, tallboys, mirrors, dining tables, dining chairs, benches, sideboards, consoles, coffee tables, TV units and a side table. On paper that is a whole house. Underneath the finish, both ranges are the same construction they are in natural: Liverpool is a solid pine frame with an oak veneer, Richmond is oak legs on a pine structure. Nothing is built differently to take the dark finish, which is why the black pieces carry the same dimensions as their pale twins to the millimetre. The grain still shows, and that is worth knowing before you order. This is not a painted flat black, it is a dark finish over open grained timber, so the surface reads as timber that happens to be black rather than as a lacquered panel. In direct Australian sun the grain is clearly visible from across a room. The Black Bedroom Is Liverpool, and Only Liverpool Seven pieces make a complete bedroom, and every one of them comes from the same range. The Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Black carries an upholstered headboard and footboard panel set into a black timber frame, which is the detail that keeps a dark bed from reading as a slab. Around it sit the Liverpool Pine 2 Drawer Bedside Table - Black at 60 x 45 x 55.9cm, the Liverpool Pine 6 Drawer Chest - Black at 140 x 45 x 85cm and the Liverpool Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy - Black at 100 x 45 x 100cm. The chest drawers are 24.6cm deep inside, the deepest in the catalogue in any finish. The Liverpool Pine Mirror - Black finishes it: a 90cm circle, 4cm deep, hung rather than rested. A round black mirror on a pale wall above a black chest is the single most effective thing you can do with this range, because the wall does the lifting and the furniture does not have to. Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Black [products-of-collection collection="black-furniture" heading="Every Piece Offered in Black" limit="12" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-black26-1"] The Dining Room Is the One With a Choice This is the only room where black gives you two genuinely different options. The Liverpool Pine Dining Table 190cm - Black sits on a solid panel base with softly rounded edges. The Richmond Pine Dining Table 240cm - Black sits on an open frame that you can see through and under. That difference matters more in black than it does in natural. A dark solid base reads as a block of shadow under the table, and in a smaller dining room it can make the whole piece feel heavier than it is. An open frame in the same finish keeps the floor visible underneath, which is the reason the Richmond version handles a tight room better. Richmond also brings the only black bench in the catalogue. The Richmond Pine Dining Bench 208cm - Black pushes fully under the table because it is 40cm deep against a chair's 62cm, and in black, tucked in, it effectively disappears. If your dining area is a walkway as much as a room, that combination is the strongest argument in the whole range. Richmond Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard - Black The Living Room, and the One Gap Coffee tables, TV units and consoles all come in black from both ranges. The Richmond Pine 2 Drawer TV Unit - Black is 160 x 45 x 55cm and the Richmond Pine Coffee Table - Black is 120 x 60 x 45cm, both with the open frame detail that runs through the range. The gap is the side table. The only one offered in black is the Liverpool Pine End Table - Black at 55 x 55 x 58cm. If everything else in the room is Richmond, this is the one piece that has to come from the other range, and at 55cm square in the same dark finish nobody will ever notice. A black TV unit is also the easiest black purchase to justify. A television is a black rectangle whether you like it or not, and a dark cabinet underneath absorbs it into one shape instead of framing it in pale timber. That is the argument for black even in a room where nothing else is dark. Richmond Pine 2 Drawer TV Unit - Black Where the Two Ranges Line Up, and Where They Do Not If you are buying black from both ranges, and most people who do a whole level end up doing exactly that, there are two numbers to check. The good news is at low level: both coffee tables are 45cm high, and the TV units are within a centimetre of each other in both height and depth. Put them in the same room and nothing looks off. The tall pieces are where the two ranges disagree. The Liverpool sideboard is 76cm high and the Richmond is 65cm, an 11cm gap that is very visible if the two share a wall. The consoles are 76cm and 82.5cm, 6.5cm apart. Neither is wrong, but they were not designed to stand next to each other. The workable rule is one range per sight line. Richmond for the dining end, Liverpool for the living end, or the reverse, and let the doorway or the change of room do the work. Mixing them within a single wall is the only way to make black furniture look accidental, which given how deliberate the finish is would be a shame. Liverpool Pine 6 Drawer Chest - Black What Never Comes in Black Six of the eight ranges have no black version of anything. There is no black acacia, because the two acacia ranges exist to show the timber and a dark finish would defeat the point. There is no black French Provincial, no black Hamptons bedroom, and no black version of the bed frames that carry drawers in the footboard. That last one is the exclusion worth planning around. If you want under bed storage and you want black, those two requirements do not meet in this catalogue, and the answer is a black bed plus a black chest rather than a black bed with drawers in it. What you get in return for the narrow range is consistency. Every black piece here came from one of two ranges built to the same depth grid, so anything you buy in black will physically agree with anything else you buy in black. The full black range is small enough to see in one screen, which is the fastest way to check whether the piece you want is in it. Frequently Asked Questions Which Cedora ranges come in black? Two of the eight. Liverpool accounts for 20 of the 33 black pieces and Richmond for 13. Byron, Oxford, London, Manchester, Bristol and Newcastle have no black version of anything, so black and acacia never appear on the same piece. Can you furnish a whole bedroom in black? Yes, and it comes entirely from Liverpool: three bed sizes, a bedside table, a six drawer chest, a five drawer tallboy and a mirror. That is a complete bedroom, and it is the only range that offers one in a dark finish. Do the two black ranges match each other? At low level, yes. Both coffee tables are 45cm high and the TV units are within a centimetre of each other in height and depth. Higher up they diverge: the sideboards are 11cm apart and the consoles 6.5cm, which is visible when they share a wall. Is there a black side table? One, from Liverpool, at 55 x 55 x 58cm. If the rest of your living room is black Richmond, the side table is the piece that has to come from the other range, and at that size and height the difference does not read. Does black furniture work in a small room? It works best as a single anchor rather than a full scheme. One black piece against a light wall gives a small room a focal point. A whole small room in black loses the sense of where the walls are, which is the opposite of what a small room needs. 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Put the Cedora bedroom ranges in a row and the confusion is understandable. Five of them sell the same list: a bed frame, a two drawer bedside, a five drawer tallboy, a six drawer chest and a mirror. Four of the five are white, and every one of them is 45cm deep in the case pieces and 140cm wide in the chest. On a product grid, four of them are versions of the same photograph. The fifth, Liverpool, is the one that looks different and is built to the same grid underneath. Three numbers decide the whole thing: what the headboard is made of, how much fits in the drawers, and how much floor the bed takes. Everything else is preference. Key Takeaways Five bedroom ranges, not four. Liverpool is the one in bare timber rather than paint. Headboards differ completely: panelled, slatted or upholstered. Only London and Manchester offer beds with drawers, and they sit in the footboard. Liverpool has the largest drawer interiors, Newcastle the smallest, in identical cabinets. Bristol's queen frame is the narrowest at 162.4cm; Liverpool's is the widest at 171cm. Start With the Headboard, Because It Is All You See From the Door This is the only difference visible from three metres away, and it is the one people notice for years. London and Manchester both use a panelled timber headboard, 120cm tall, with moulded edges and a plinth base. It is the Hamptons answer: formal, symmetrical, and it makes a bed look like a piece of architecture rather than a mattress on legs. Bristol uses a slatted headboard instead. Vertical timber slats with air between them, which reads as Scandinavian and, more usefully, does not visually block the wall behind it. In a small room or a room with a window near the bedhead, that transparency is worth more than it sounds. Two ranges upholster. Newcastle sets a fabric panel inside a curved painted surround at 123.5cm, and the Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Natural sets one inside a bare timber frame at 125cm and repeats it at the foot of the bed. Those are the two you can lean back against for an hour, which matters if the bed doubles as the place you read or work. Range Headboard Height Style London Panelled timber 120cm Classic Hamptons Manchester Panelled timber 120cm Classic Hamptons Bristol Slatted timber 120cm Scandinavian Newcastle Upholstered fabric, painted frame 123.5cm French Provincial Liverpool Upholstered fabric, timber frame 125cm Contemporary Scandinavian Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Natural Then Ask Whether You Want Drawers in the Bed This cuts the field to two immediately. Only London and Manchester offer a bed with storage, in all three sizes, and in both cases the two drawers sit in the footboard and pull out toward the end of the bed rather than along the sides. That detail is the reason they work in Australian bedrooms at all. A side-opening drawer needs a clear run of floor beside the bed, which most rooms with a robe on one wall simply do not have. A footboard drawer needs the walkway at the end, which every room has. London's drawers are 43.7cm deep and 24.9cm high inside, Manchester's 43cm and 25.9cm. Bristol, Newcastle and Liverpool are plain frames only. That is not a gap so much as a different plan: Bristol's base sits 30cm off the floor and leaves the whole area underneath open, which takes storage boxes on castors that can be pulled from whichever side is actually free. If you rearrange rooms, that flexibility beats a fixed drawer. Manchester Pine Queen Bed Frame with 2 Drawers [products-of-collection collection="hamptons-bedroom-furniture" heading="Beds With Footboard Storage" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-bed4-1"] Then Measure Your Floor, Not Your Mattress A queen mattress is 153cm wide in every one of these beds. What changes is the frame around it, and the spread is wider than you would expect. Bristol's queen is 162.4cm, Newcastle's 164cm, London and Manchester 169cm, Liverpool 171cm. That is 8.6cm between the narrowest and the widest for exactly the same sleeping surface. In a large main bedroom the difference is invisible. In a three by three and a half metre second bedroom, which describes an enormous share of Australian housing, nearly nine centimetres is the gap between walking past the end of the bed and turning sideways to do it. Measure the floor and work backwards. Liverpool is also the longest at 224cm, another 5cm over Bristol. The tallboys run the other way. Liverpool's is 100cm tall, Bristol's 110cm, Manchester's and Newcastle's 114cm, London's 120cm, all on the same 100 x 45cm footprint. A lower tallboy keeps the sense of height in a small room and gives you a surface you can actually see the top of. Range Queen frame Tallboy height Bed with drawers Bristol 162.4 x 215.5cm 110cm No Newcastle 164 x 219cm 114cm No Manchester 169 x 219cm 114cm Yes London 169 x 218.1cm 120cm Yes Liverpool 171 x 224cm 100cm No The Drawer Volume Nobody Thinks to Compare Every one of these ranges sells a six drawer chest measuring exactly W140 x D45 x H85cm. Identical outside. Inside, the drawers vary by more than half in volume, and nothing on the shelf tells you which is which. Liverpool's chest drawers are 63.1cm wide, 36.9cm deep and 24.6cm high. Newcastle's are 62.35 x 37.8 x 16cm. That 8.6cm of height is the difference between a stack of folded jumpers sitting flat and the same stack stopping the drawer from closing. The reason is styling: Newcastle's shaped fronts and curved carcass take their volume from the inside, while Liverpool's flat fronts give it all back. The bedside tables tell the same story in miniature. Liverpool's drawers are 46.4 x 36.9 x 22.5cm, Bristol's 42.5 x 37 x 19.2cm, Newcastle's 42.6 x 34.7 x 15.1cm. If storage is genuinely why you are buying, this is the table to read rather than the price list. Range Chest drawer (W x D x H) Bedside drawer Tallboy lower drawer Liverpool 63.1 x 36.9 x 24.6cm 46.4 x 36.9 x 22.5cm 86.4cm wide, 22.5cm high Bristol 62.5 x 37 x 20.3cm 42.5 x 37 x 19.2cm 87.5cm wide, 20.8cm high Manchester 59 x 37 x 20.6cm 37.5 x 37 x 18.6cm 81.5cm wide, 22.5cm high London 59 x 38.3 x 19.1cm 35.5 x 38.3 x 17.5cm 80.5cm wide, 22.5cm high Newcastle 62.35 x 37.8 x 16cm 42.6 x 34.7 x 15.1cm 87.6cm wide, 18.5cm high Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest What They Are Actually Made Of All five use pine structurally, and they differ entirely in how much of any timber you get to see. London and Manchester are a solid pine structure finished in crisp white, top to bottom. There is no exposed grain anywhere in either range. Bristol splits the difference: a solid oak top on a painted pine carcass, so every horizontal surface you put something on is hardwood and everything else is paint. Newcastle lists a pine and acacia structure with a solid acacia headboard frame, all painted, with the fabric panel over the headboard. The acacia is real and you will never see it. Liverpool is the one that is not painted at all: a pine frame carrying a genuine oak veneer, in a natural oak tone or black. It is the only range here where the timber is the finish rather than something underneath it, which is also why it is the one that does not disappear into a white room. The Shortlist, One Paragraph Each Buy Bristol if the room is small and painted furniture suits it. Narrowest bed, lowest of the painted tallboys, roomiest drawers of the four white ranges, and an oak top where you actually put things. Buy London or Manchester if you want a bed that looks like a proper piece of furniture and you need storage in it. They are close enough that the honest tiebreakers are price and small drawer differences. Manchester sits slightly cheaper across most pieces. Buy Newcastle if you want the curves and the upholstered headboard in a painted frame, and the room has the height and light to carry them. Go in knowing the drawers are the shallowest of the five. Buy Liverpool if you want visible timber rather than paint, the largest drawers of any range here, and a fabric headboard without the Provincial styling. It is the widest bed at 171cm and the lowest tallboy at 100cm, so it wants width more than it wants height. [products-of-collection collection="bedroom" heading="All Cedora Bedroom Furniture" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-bed4-2"] Frequently Asked Questions Which Cedora bedroom range has the largest drawers? Liverpool. Its chest drawers are 63.1cm wide, 36.9cm deep and 24.6cm high inside, and its bedside drawers 22.5cm high. Bristol leads the four painted ranges at 20.3cm, and Newcastle has the smallest at 16cm, all in chests of identical external size. Which Cedora bed frames come with storage drawers? Only London and Manchester. Both offer double, queen and king with or without two drawers built into the footboard. Bristol, Newcastle and Liverpool are sold as plain frames. Which Cedora bedroom beds have an upholstered headboard? Newcastle and Liverpool. Newcastle sets a fabric panel inside a curved painted surround at 123.5cm. Liverpool sets one inside a bare timber frame at 125cm and repeats it on the footboard. London and Manchester are panelled timber, Bristol is slatted. Which range suits a small bedroom? Bristol. Its queen frame is 162.4cm wide against 169cm for London and Manchester and 171cm for Liverpool, and its tallboy is 110cm. Liverpool's tallboy is lower again at 100cm, so in a room where height is the problem rather than width, that is the one to look at. Are all five ranges the same material? No. London and Manchester are a solid pine structure, painted. Bristol is a solid oak top on a painted pine carcass. Newcastle is pine and acacia, painted. Liverpool is a pine frame with an oak veneer and is the only one not painted at all. Related Posts Six Centimetres Narrower: the Bristol Collection in a Small Bedroom Two Cedora Beds Have a Fabric Headboard. Only Newcastle Paints the Frame. Fifteen Drawers in One Bedroom: How the Manchester Collection Adds Up Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.

The Liverpool Collection was created for that sense of cohesion. Not to fill a space, but to refine it. To bring balance between form and feeling, between structure and comfort, between what is seen and what is lived.