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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. Bristol Pine King Bed Frame 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. Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest [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. Bristol Pine 2 Drawer Bedside Table Bristol Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy 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. Bristol Pine Mirror 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. London Pine Queen Bed Frame with 2 Drawers 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. London Pine Queen Bed Frame [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. London Pine 2 Drawer Bedside Table 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. London Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy London Pine 6 Drawer 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. London Pine Mirror [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? 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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. Manchester Pine Queen Bed Frame with 2 Drawers 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. Manchester Pine 2 Drawer Bedside Table 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. Manchester Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy [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. Manchester Pine 6 Drawer Chest 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. Manchester Pine Mirror 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 sticking drawer is usually the room, not the drawer. Check the piece is level before you touch a runner, because a twisted carcass binds every time.

A king is a queen plus exactly 30cm of width in every range, with identical length. That makes this a room width decision, not a comfort one.

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. Manchester Pine Mirror 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. Newcastle Acacia Mirror [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. Liverpool Pine Mirror - Black 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. Bristol Pine Mirror 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.

Drawer interiors here run from 16cm to 24.6cm deep. That 54 per cent gap decides whether file folding works at all, before you buy a single divider.

Almost every guide to dressing a bed starts with the bedding. It should start with the frame, because the frame decides the one thing you cannot fix later: how far the quilt hangs down each side. A standard queen quilt is 210cm wide. Put it on a 162.4cm frame and it drops 23.8cm each side. Put the same quilt on a 171cm frame and it drops 19.5cm. That is a visible difference, and it is set before you buy a single pillow. So this runs in the order that actually matters: the frame first, then the layers, then the pillows, then the fold. Dressing a bed is about six decisions, and four of them are made by furniture rather than by textiles. Key Takeaways Quilt drop is set by the frame width, not the mattress width. Across these ranges that is 19.5cm to 23.8cm each side. Layer bottom up: fitted sheet, flat sheet, quilt, throw across the lower third, pillows last. Fold the quilt back about 30cm and put the pillows in front of the fold, never under it. A 120cm to 125cm headboard holds two sleeping pillows plus two Euros. Beyond that the back row vanishes. The Bristol is the only frame here with no footboard, which changes where the quilt is allowed to fall. Start With the Frame, Because It Sets the Drop A queen mattress is 153cm wide in every range. The frame around it is not, and the frame is what the quilt actually hangs over. Here is the whole set against a 210cm queen quilt. Range Queen frame width Quilt drop each side Footboard Bristol 162.4cm 23.8cm None. The foot stays open Newcastle 164cm 23cm Timber, shaped London 169cm 20.5cm Timber, panelled Manchester 169cm 20.5cm Timber, panelled Liverpool 171cm 19.5cm Upholstered Twenty to thirty centimetres is the band that reads as deliberate. Below about 20cm the mattress edge starts to show and the quilt looks bought for a smaller bed. Above about 35cm it pools on the floor. Every frame here lands at the lower end of that band on a standard queen quilt, and the Liverpool at 19.5cm sits right on the line. That is the one case where a king quilt is worth considering on a queen bed: at 245cm wide it drops 37cm each side, which reads as generous rather than as a mistake. Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Natural The Order, Bottom to Top Fitted sheet, pulled square. Corners diagonally opposite each other first, then the other two. Doing them in a circle is what leaves the last corner short. Flat sheet, wrong side up. The pattern faces down so that when you fold the top back over the quilt, the right side shows. This is the step most people skip and then wonder why the fold looks wrong. Quilt, centred by eye from the foot. Stand at the end of the bed and level the drop on both sides before you touch the top. Centring from the head end is guesswork. Fold the top back about 30cm. Take the flat sheet and quilt back together in one fold. That fold is the line the pillows sit against. Throw across the lower third. Folded to roughly a third of the bed length, sitting square, edges hanging just past the mattress edge. Pillows last, biggest at the back. Euros against the headboard, sleeping pillows in front, one small cushion if you want a full stop. That order is not a style preference. Each layer holds the one under it in place, so building it in any other sequence means straightening the quilt after the pillows are already on it. The Headboard Sets the Pillow Count Every headboard in this catalogue stands between 120cm and 125cm from the floor. That is the ceiling on how much you can stack, because anything above the top rail is not seen from the door and does nothing except get moved every night. Two Euro pillows at the back and two sleeping pillows in front is the arrangement that fits inside 120cm to 125cm on a queen. On a king, the same two rows work but the Euros go three across. Beyond that you are decorating for a photograph rather than for a room you sleep in. Material matters here more than height. The Liverpool and the Newcastle carry a fabric bedhead, so a pillow leaning against it sits softly and stays put. A painted timber headboard, as on the London, Manchester and Bristol, is a harder surface and pillows slide down it, which is a good argument for the Euro row doing the propping. We wrote up the fabric ones in two Cedora beds have a fabric headboard, and the height chart is in bed head size guide. Bristol Pine Queen Bed Frame The Footboard Decides Where the Quilt Stops This is the detail that separates the five ranges once the bedding is on. Four of them have a footboard, so the quilt has to sit inside the frame and the folded throw becomes the finish at the end of the bed. The Bristol has no footboard at all, just side rails and an open foot, and that changes the answer: the quilt is allowed to fall past the end of the bed, and a longer quilt looks better there than a throw does. If the foot of your bed faces the door, the open frame also reads longer, because nothing stops the eye at the end of the mattress. That is a layout point rather than a bedding one, and it is worked through in small bedroom bed ideas. [products-of-collection collection="bed-frames" heading="Shop Cedora Bed Frames" limit="6" columns="3" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-dressbed-1"] Four Mistakes That Undo the Whole Thing Quilt pulled over the pillows. It flattens the bed into one slab and hides the fold. Pillows go in front of the fold, always. Throw laid on at an angle. A deliberately draped throw only reads as deliberate in a photograph. In a real room, square and folded is what looks tidy on a Tuesday. Too many cushions. If the pile has to move to the floor every night, it moves to the floor permanently within a fortnight. Four pillows and one cushion is the practical ceiling on a queen. Wrong quilt size for the frame. A double quilt is 180cm wide. On a 169cm queen frame it drops 5.5cm each side, which shows the mattress and looks like exactly what it is. Size the quilt to the frame and the drop takes care of itself. Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Black A Two Minute Version On a normal morning nobody does six layers. The short version keeps most of the effect: pull the fitted sheet square, bring the quilt up and level the drop from the foot, fold the top back 30cm, and stand the pillows against the headboard. That is four movements and about two minutes, and it is the difference between a bed that reads as made and a bed that reads as abandoned. The full arrangement is worth doing when the sheets change, and it holds for about a week if the throw is folded rather than draped. If you want the styling side rather than the method, we covered that separately in how to style a bed. Frequently Asked Questions How do you dress a bed properly? Work in order from the bottom up: fitted sheet, flat sheet, quilt, then a folded throw across the lower third, then pillows from largest at the back to smallest at the front. Dressing a bed out of order is why the quilt ends up sitting crooked over the sheet. How much should a quilt hang over the side of a bed? About 20cm to 30cm each side, which puts the edge below the mattress but above the bed base. The number that decides it is the frame width, not the mattress width. A 210cm queen quilt over a 162.4cm Bristol frame drops 23.8cm each side, and over a 171cm Liverpool frame it drops 19.5cm. Should the quilt cover the pillows? No. Fold the top of the quilt back about 30cm from the headboard and let the pillows sit in front of the fold. Pulling the quilt up over the pillows flattens the whole arrangement and hides the layer you spent the most on. How many pillows should be on a bed? Two sleeping pillows plus two Euro pillows behind them is enough for a queen, and it is what a 120cm to 125cm headboard can hold without the top row disappearing behind the bed. More than four on a queen and you are moving pillows onto the floor every night. Does a footboard change how you dress a bed? Yes. A footboard stops the quilt and holds the drop at the sides, so the folded throw sits inside the frame. The Bristol has no footboard at all, which lets the quilt fall past the end of the bed and is the one frame here where a longer quilt reads better than a folded throw. Related Posts Bed Frame Sizes Explained: Standard Dimensions How to Clean a Fabric Bedhead Without a Water Mark What a Fabric Headboard Is Really Like in Summer Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.

Chest, tallboy, bedside table: every case piece in this bedroom range is 45cm deep. The number comes from the width of a folded jumper.

Where the bed goes matters more than which bed you buy. Five layouts, each with the wall length it actually needs before it works.