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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 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 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 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. Related Posts Same Table, Two Finishes: What Black Actually Does to an Australian Room Thirteen Designs, Two Finishes, One Range for the Whole Open Plan Level Three Ranges Share the Scandinavian Label, and Only One Does Dining Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.

Cedora bedside tables are W55 or W60 outside, but drawer width runs 35.5cm to 46.4cm. The full interior comparison and the height rule that matters.

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 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 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.

All six Cedora tallboys are W100 x D45cm with five drawers. Only height changes, from 100cm to 120cm. What that 20cm actually changes in a bedroom.

Every Cedora six drawer chest is W140 x D45 x H85cm, but a Liverpool drawer holds 57.3 litres against Newcastle at 37.7. The full interior comparison.

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.

Cedora bed frames weigh 40kg to 99kg. The full weight table by range and size, what adds the weight, and the access checks to make before you order.

A Liverpool bedroom is $5,049.40 and a living room $2,030.85. See the full room by room cost, and the one place where the dining bundle costs you more.