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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Oak is the most-used and least-checked word in furniture retail. It carries a hundred years of association with things that last, it appears in product titles far more often than it appears in actual structures, and almost nobody asks the follow-up question, which is: oak where, exactly? In the Cedora range oak turns up in 75 of 128 pieces, across three collections. Not one of them is solid oak from top to floor. That sounds like a confession and it is not, because the three ways the timber is used are each the right answer to a different problem. Here is the full picture, with nothing rounded up. Key Takeaways Oak is in 75 of 128 pieces, across Liverpool, Richmond and Bristol. Richmond: solid oak legs on all 27 pieces, pine structure between them. Bristol: a solid oak top on all eight pieces, pine carcass underneath. Liverpool: oak veneer over a solid pine frame on 34 pieces, plus six bed frames using oak-finished MDF. No Cedora piece is solid oak throughout, and the price reflects that honestly. The Three Jobs Oak Is Doing Timber in furniture is not one decision, it is three, and they pull in different directions. A leg has to survive being kicked, knocked by a chair and dragged across a floor. A tabletop has to resist wear across a broad flat plane. A wide panel, like the side of a wardrobe or the top of a long sideboard, mostly has to stay flat through summers that swing forty degrees and winters that do not. Solid hardwood is excellent at the first two and demonstrably worse at the third. A single wide oak board wants to cup as it takes on and gives up moisture, which is why traditional cabinetmakers built wide surfaces from frames and panels rather than one slab. Modern makers solve the same problem with a stable core and a real timber face. So a catalogue that uses oak three different ways is not being inconsistent. It is answering three different questions. What matters for a buyer is knowing which answer you are getting, because the three cost different amounts to make and behave differently in your house. Richmond: Solid Oak, in the Legs All 27 Richmond pieces are listed as solid oak legs with a pine structure. The oak sits exactly where the abuse lands. On the Richmond Pine Dining Table 240cm - Natural, a two and a half metre span, the closed timber loop at each end takes every chair that gets pushed back, every vacuum head, and every foot that finds it in the dark. The same reasoning runs down through the range. A Richmond Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard or a Richmond Pine Coffee Table carries the same leg frame, which is why the pieces read as related from across a room even when only one is visible. What you are not getting is an oak carcass. The structure between those legs is pine, and Richmond is priced as what it is. If you want the practical benefit of oak, which is a corner that shrugs off a decade of contact, this is where it lives. If you want the mass and the sound of a solid hardwood cabinet, this is not that. [products-of-collection collection="richmond" heading="Oak Legs, Pine Structure" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-oak-1"] Bristol: Solid Oak, on the Top Bristol's eight pieces invert it. Here the oak is a solid top over a painted pine carcass, which puts the hardwood on the only plane that meets a lamp base, a coffee cup, a set of car keys thrown down at the end of the day. On a Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest or a Bristol Pine 2 Drawer Bedside Table that is a genuinely efficient allocation. The sides and back of a chest of drawers are touched by a vacuum cleaner twice a year. The top is touched every single day. Spending the material budget on the square metre that gets used, and painting the rest, is the choice most furniture buyers would make themselves if anyone laid it out for them. It also gives the range its look. A warm oak plane against a white painted body is the whole visual idea behind Bristol, and it is the reason the pieces read as Scandinavian rather than as painted bedroom furniture. The material decision and the design decision are the same decision. Bristol Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy Liverpool: Oak as a Surface, Not a Structure Liverpool is the largest range at forty pieces, and the one where the word needs the most care. Thirty-four are recorded as a solid pine frame with oak veneer. The remaining six bed frames are pine with oak-finished MDF and a fabric headboard. Veneer has an undeserved reputation, mostly earned by the plastic wood-look laminates of the 1980s, which are not the same thing at all. A real veneer is a thin layer of actual oak bonded to a stable core. The surface you see and touch is oak. What it is sitting on is engineered not to move, which across the wide panels Liverpool uses is a functional advantage rather than a cost saving dressed up as one. The honest limitation is repair. A deep gouge in a solid oak top can be sanded out. The same gouge in a veneer goes through to the core and cannot. If you have a household that is hard on surfaces, that difference is worth more than any spec sheet comparison, and it points you toward the solid-topped ranges instead. Liverpool Pine Dining Table 240cm - Natural Liverpool Pine 6 Drawer Chest - Natural What Solid Oak Throughout Would Actually Cost This is the part usually left out. Oak is expensive as a raw material and more expensive again as a finished one, because wide boards have to be selected, dried slowly and machined with allowances for movement. A chest of drawers built entirely from solid oak is not ten or twenty per cent dearer than one built from pine with an oak top. It is a different category of purchase. That is why almost nobody at this end of the market sells it, and why any listing that says solid oak at a mid-range price deserves a second look at the specification rather than the headline. The question to ask is never "is it oak", it is "oak where, and how thick". If you are comparing across shops, three checks settle it in a showroom. Look at the end grain on a tabletop, where solid timber shows a different pattern to the face. Run a finger along an edge and feel whether the face grain turns the corner or stops at a banded strip. And lift a corner, because solid hardwood announces its weight in a way nothing else does. Which One You Should Actually Buy If the piece is a table or a bench you eat at daily, the argument favours the Richmond range. Legs are the failure point on dining furniture and solid oak there is a real, felt difference over years, not a specification you take on faith. If the piece is bedroom storage in a small room, Bristol's solid top is the better allocation. The top is the working surface in a bedroom, the carcass is not, and the range's proportions were drawn around light structural timber in a way an all-hardwood range could not match. And if you want one look running across a whole house, Liverpool is the only range broad enough to do it, at forty pieces covering bedroom, dining and living. That breadth is what the veneer buys. Knowing that going in is the entire point of this article, and it is a far better position to buy from than assuming the word on the label means something it does not. [products-of-collection collection="bristol" heading="Solid Oak Tops" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-oak-2"] Frequently Asked Questions Does Cedora sell solid oak furniture? Not solid oak throughout. Oak appears in 75 of the 128 pieces, but always in a specific role: solid oak legs on Richmond, solid oak tops on Bristol, and oak veneer over a pine frame on Liverpool. No piece is solid oak from top to floor. Is oak veneer worse than solid oak? Not for a wide panel. A thin oak surface bonded to a stable core moves less with heat and humidity than a solid board of the same width, so it is less likely to cup or split. Solid oak wins on edge damage, because a veneer surface cannot be sanded back the same way. Which Cedora range has real solid oak? Two of them. Richmond uses solid oak for the legs on all 27 pieces, and Bristol uses a solid oak top across its eight. In both cases the rest of the structure is pine. How can I tell veneer from solid timber in person? Look at the edges and the end grain. On solid timber the grain on the face continues around the edge and the pattern on the end is different again. On veneer the edge is usually a separate banded strip, and the face pattern stops rather than turns. Why would a maker use oak in three different ways? Because the demands are different. Legs take impact, tops take wear, and wide panels need to stay flat. Solid oak suits the first two and veneer over a stable core suits the third. Using one material everywhere would make some parts worse, not better. Related Posts Solid Wood vs Veneer vs MDF: Which Furniture Is Best for You? Pine Is in 105 of Cedora's 128 Pieces. Here Is Where It Hides. Oak vs Acacia Wood Furniture: Best Dining Table Choice Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.
Open the Scandinavian collection and you get 49 pieces, which sounds like one coherent range until you look at what is actually in it. Three separate ranges sit under that one label, and none of them furnishes a whole house on its own. That matters because of how people buy. Almost nobody buys 49 pieces. They buy a dining table now, a bedroom in six months, and they want the second purchase to look like it belongs with the first. Here is what genuinely lines up between the three, and what does not. Key Takeaways Richmond is 27 of the 49 pieces and the only range covering dining and living. Liverpool contributes 14 bedroom pieces and Bristol 8, and neither does dining. Every case piece across all three is 45cm deep, and every chest is 140 x 45 x 85cm. Richmond and Liverpool are bare timber; Bristol is painted white with a timber top. The two mirrors in the collection are different shapes: 100cm square and 90cm round. One Label, Three Ranges, and Only One Dining Room Richmond is the workhorse. Its 27 pieces cover the Richmond Pine Dining Table 190cm - Natural, chairs, two bench lengths, a sideboard, a console, a Richmond Pine Coffee Table - Natural, a TV unit and an end table. If your dining and living areas run into each other, as most Australian open plan levels do, one range does the whole floor. What Richmond does not make is a bed. Not in any size, not in either finish. So the moment you walk out of the shared rooms and into a bedroom, the Scandinavian collection hands you over to a different range entirely, and you have two of them to choose between. Liverpool brings 14 bedroom pieces to the collection: three bed sizes in two finishes, bedside tables, chests, tallboys and a mirror. Bristol brings 8, covering the same list in one finish. Both are complete bedrooms. Neither has a single dining piece in this collection, which is the split nobody notices until they are halfway through furnishing. Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Natural The Boxes Match, the Fronts Do Not Here is the part that makes mixing safe. Every case piece in all three ranges is 45cm deep. Every six drawer chest is 140 x 45 x 85cm, whether it is the Liverpool Pine 6 Drawer Chest - Natural or the Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest. Every tallboy is 100cm wide and 45cm deep. So two pieces from two ranges will sit on the same wall, project the same distance into the room and line up along the top within a couple of centimetres. That is not a small thing. It means a Bristol chest and a Liverpool tallboy in the same bedroom will read as a planned pair rather than two pieces that happen to be there. The bedside tables are the exception worth knowing. The Liverpool Pine 2 Drawer Bedside Table - Natural is 60cm wide and 55.9cm high. The Bristol Pine 2 Drawer Bedside Table is 55cm wide and 60cm high. Same depth, but one is wide and low and the other narrow and tall, so a matched pair either side of a bed has to come from the same range. Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest [products-of-collection collection="scandinavian-furniture" heading="Shop the Scandinavian Range" limit="12" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-scandi-1"] Richmond Is Bare Timber, Bristol Is Painted Where the three ranges genuinely part company is the surface. Richmond is bare timber throughout, with oak legs on a pine structure and a natural or black finish. Nothing is painted, and the joinery is left visible in the open frame legs that run under the tables and benches. Liverpool is also bare timber, a pine frame with an oak veneer, in a warmer oak tone or black. The bedroom pieces add one thing Richmond does not have anywhere: the bed frames carry an upholstered headboard and footboard panel set into the timber, which softens a room in a way no amount of grain does. Bristol is the odd one out and deliberately so. It is painted white with a timber top on the case pieces, and the Bristol Pine Queen Bed Frame has a slatted headboard rather than a solid or upholstered one. In a small or dark bedroom that white carcass throws light back into the room, which the bare timber ranges cannot do. Bristol Pine Queen Bed Frame Which Bedroom Range Goes With Richmond Downstairs Picture the actual moment this gets decided. The Richmond table went in eighteen months ago, the room works, and now the spare bedroom has to stop being a spare bedroom because a baby is coming or your mother is moving in. You are standing in a showroom with a photo on your phone, trying to remember whether the table was warm or grey, and the two bedroom ranges in front of you look nothing like each other. Here is the honest answer. If the dining and living rooms are Richmond in natural, the Liverpool bedroom continues the same idea: bare timber, similar warmth, no change of language when you walk through the house. If the bedroom is small, north facing onto a fence, or the room in the house that never gets light, Bristol is the better answer even though it does not match. White painted furniture in a dark bedroom is worth more than continuity is, and a bedroom is a room nobody sees from the dining table anyway. The one combination to avoid is Bristol and Liverpool together in the same bedroom. Painted white against bare oak tone at close range reads as two sets of furniture rather than one, and unlike the room to room question there is nowhere for the eye to rest between them. Pick one range per bedroom and the collection behaves itself. Richmond Pine Coffee Table - Natural The Two Mirrors Are Not the Same Shape A detail that catches people out when they order two rooms at once. The Bristol Pine Mirror is a 100cm square with a timber top rail, sized to sit on the matching chest. The Liverpool Pine Mirror - Natural is a 90cm circle, 4cm deep, made to hang on a wall on its own. They are not interchangeable, and the difference is not decorative. A square mirror on a chest inherits the chest's height and shows you from about the ankles up. A round mirror you hang wherever you like, so it can be centred at standing eye level and actually used to check an outfit. If you are furnishing two bedrooms from this collection, that is the thing to decide first, before the chest and well before the bed. The mirror determines whether the chest needs to go on a wall you can stand back from, and moving a chest after the fact is a two person job nobody enjoys. Buying It in the Right Order Start with the shared rooms. Richmond covers dining and living completely, it is the range visitors actually see, and it is the one where a piece bought later has to match something bought earlier. Get the table and the sideboard right and the rest of the floor follows. Do the bedroom second, as a separate decision rather than an extension of the first one. It is a different room, a different range, and the only thing it needs to inherit is the general restraint: 45cm deep case pieces, uncluttered fronts, no ornament. That is what the label is describing, not a single timber tone. What ties it together in the end is the depth grid rather than the colour. Everything in the Scandinavian range comes 45cm off the wall, which is why a house furnished from three of its ranges over three years still reads as one decision rather than three shopping trips. Nobody visiting counts the ranges. They just notice that the place hangs together. Frequently Asked Questions Can you mix furniture ranges in the same house? Across rooms, easily. In the same room, only if the finishes agree. Richmond and Liverpool are both bare timber so they sit together comfortably, while Bristol is painted white with a timber top and reads as a different family beside either of them. Which Cedora range covers a dining room in Scandinavian style? Richmond, and only Richmond. Its 27 pieces cover the dining table, chairs, benches, sideboard, console, coffee table, TV unit and end table. Liverpool and Bristol contribute bedroom pieces to the same collection and nothing for the dining room. Do the chests of drawers from different ranges match in size? The boxes do. Every six drawer chest in the collection is 140 x 45 x 85cm, and every tallboy is 100cm wide and 45cm deep. What changes is the handle, the base detail and the finish, so two chests will line up on a wall and still look different. What is the difference between the Bristol and Liverpool bedside tables? Five centimetres of width and four of height. The Liverpool is 60cm wide and 55.9cm high, the Bristol is 55cm wide and 60cm high. Both are 45cm deep. The Liverpool sits lower than most mattresses and the Bristol sits level with them. Is Scandinavian furniture always pale timber? Not in this range. Richmond and Liverpool both come in a black finish alongside the natural, and Bristol is painted white with a timber top. The common thread is the uncluttered profile rather than the colour. Related Posts Scandinavian Interior Design: A Practical Guide Scandinavian Bedroom and Dining: Create a Calm and Cohesive Home 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.
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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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. 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