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No two pieces are exactly alike. There is something special about bringing natural timber into the home. From the individual grain patterns and subtle tonal variations to the knots and markings formed naturally over time, every piece of timber carries its own character. No two surfaces are ever the same - and that individuality is part of what makes timber furniture so enduring. At Cedora, we embrace these natural variations rather than hide them. They bring warmth, texture and a sense of authenticity to furniture designed for real, everyday Australian homes. Nature, in Every Detail Look closely at a timber surface and you’ll find details that cannot simply be replicated. The direction of the grain. A subtle shift from one tone to another. Natural knots and markings unique to that piece. These characteristics are not imperfections. They are part of the natural beauty of timber, giving every table, bed, sideboard or console its own individual finish. It means the piece that arrives in your home is uniquely yours. Designed Around Natural Character Across Cedora collections, timber takes on a different personality depending on the design surrounding it. Byron Acacia Dining Table 160cm Byron - Coastal Contemporary Warm acacia timber and clean, contemporary proportions give the Byron Collection its relaxed Australian coastal character. The natural variation of acacia becomes part of the design, bringing depth and warmth to dining and living spaces without making them feel overly formal. Featured pieces:Byron Acacia Dining Table 190cm Byron Acacia Dining Table 240cm Byron Acacia 3 Drawer Console Table Natural warmth, made for relaxed living. Liverpool Natural - Contemporary Scandinavian The Liverpool Bedroom Collection takes a softer, more understated approach to timber. Its natural finish, simple lines and Scandinavian-inspired proportions allow the warmth and texture of the material to become a defining part of the bedroom. From the bed frame to matching storage pieces, Liverpool creates a calm, cohesive space where natural character does the talking. Featured pieces:Liverpool Pine King Size Bed Frame – Natural Liverpool Pine Queen Size Bed Frame – Natural Liverpool Pine 6 Drawer Chest – Natural Liverpool Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy – Natural Liverpool Pine 2 Drawer Bedside Table – Natural Simple by design. Naturally individual. Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Natural Richmond - Modern Scandinavian Clean lines meet natural warmth in the Richmond Collection. With its modern Scandinavian influence, Richmond celebrates timber through restrained forms and an understated palette. Oak veneer brings natural grain and texture to the surface, complemented by timber construction to create furniture that feels warm, considered and easy to live with. From dining tables to sideboards and consoles, each piece brings a sense of natural character into contemporary Australian interiors. Featured pieces:Richmond Dining Table – Natural Richmond Sideboard – Natural Richmond Console Table – Natural Modern simplicity, grounded in nature. Made by Nature. Made for Your Home. Natural timber does not strive for perfect uniformity - and that is precisely its beauty. Variations in grain, knots, texture and tone mean your furniture may look slightly different from the piece photographed online or displayed in a showroom. Rather than taking away from the design, these natural characteristics give each piece its individuality. Furniture becomes more than something that simply fills a room. It brings texture. Warmth. Character. And a little piece of nature into the spaces where everyday life happens. Richmond Pine Dining Bench 208cm - Natural The Beauty of Natural Timber Unique nature. Designed for everyday living. Discover Cedora’s timber collections online at Cedora.com.au. Related Posts How to Fix Scratches on Solid Timber: Simple DIY Solutions Choosing the Right Timber Furniture for Timber Floors Thirty-One Acacia Pieces, and the Timber Only Shows on Twenty-Three Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.

Why does some furniture simply never feels outdated. Trends change. Colours come and go. Shapes evolve. What feels new today may look very different a few years from now. But some pieces seem to sit quietly outside of that cycle. They don’t demand attention. They don’t need to follow every new direction. Instead, they continue to feel at home as the spaces around them change. So, what gives furniture that lasting quality? Often, it comes down to a few simple things: thoughtful proportions, natural materials, restrained colours, considered silhouettes and a design that works beautifully in everyday life. It Starts with Proportion Before colour, styling or decoration, there is proportion. Furniture that feels balanced within a room has ease to it. A bed with presence without overwhelming space. A dining table is generous enough to gather around. Storage that feels substantial yet considered. Good proportions are easy to overlook. And perhaps that is the point. When they are right, a piece simply feels as though it belongs. The London and Manchester Collections capture this beautifully. Inspired by Classic Hamptons interiors, their balanced forms and timeless detailing bring a sense of structure and familiarity to the bedroom. They feel established rather than trend-led - pieces designed to remain relevant as bedding, colours and accessories around them evolve. Let Materials Speak Natural materials have a character that is difficult to imitate. Timber brings warmth through grain, texture and subtle tonal variation. It can sit comfortably alongside linen and woven textures today, then be restyled with completely different colours and finishes years from now. The Byron Collection embraces this natural warmth through acacia timber and a relaxed Coastal Contemporary aesthetic. The Byron Dining Table allows the material to become part of the room’s character. Style it with soft neutrals and organic textures for a coastal setting or introduce contemporary chairs and sculptural accessories for a more modern expression. The furniture is on. The room around it can evolve. London Pine Queen Bed Frame with 2 Drawers Keep the Palette Quiet There is a reason natural timber, white, black and warm neutral finishes continue to return to our homes. They give us room to change. A restrained foundation allows colour and personality to come from the things that are easier to evolve over time - artwork, rugs, cushions, lighting and objects collected along the way. Furniture doesn’t always need to be the loudest voice in the room. Sometimes its role is simply to hold everything together. The Richmond Collection, with its Modern Scandinavian character, reflects this approach through clean forms, natural finishes and an understated aesthetic. A Richmond Dining Table or Sideboard can become part of many different interiors because its design leaves space for the home around it to have a personality of its own. Simplicity Leaves Room for Change The simplest furniture isn’t necessarily the easiest to design. When unnecessary details are removed, proportion, material and craftsmanship become more visible. Clean silhouettes also give furniture something particularly valuable: versatility. A dining table can move from a minimalist interior to a warmer, layered home. A simple sideboard can be styled beneath contemporary artwork today and a large mirror years later. This is where Richmond’s Modern Scandinavian simplicity and Byron’s Coastal Contemporary character find common ground. Their styles are different, but both allow the natural character of the furniture to lead rather than relying on decoration alone. Byron Acacia Dining Table 240cm And It Still Has to Work A beautiful piece that doesn’t work for everyday life rarely feels timeless for very long. The furniture we keep is often the furniture that continues to serve us. The dining table has enough room when friends come over. The bedside table that keeps everyday essentials within reach. The chest of drawers that quietly keeps a bedroom organised. The sideboard that stores what we need while giving the room somewhere to display the things we love. Function may not be the first thing we notice about a beautiful piece of furniture. But it is often the reason it stays with us. A Home Should Evolve Timeless design doesn’t mean creating a home that never changes. Quite the opposite. Our homes should change with us. New artwork appears. A different rug changes the mood of a room. Chairs are moved around. Families grow. Styles become softer, bolder or more personal. The right furniture makes those changes somewhere to happen. From the enduring Classic Hamptons character of London and Manchester to the understated Modern Scandinavian simplicity of Richmond and the relaxed Coastal Contemporary warmth of Byron, each Cedora collection offers a different point of view. Not designed around what is popular for a moment. Designed around what makes a home feel good for years. Byron Acacia 3 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard Beyond Trends Perhaps timeless furniture isn’t furniture that never changes. It’s furniture that gives you the freedom to change everything around it. Designed for today. Made to belong for years to come. Discover Cedora Collections. Related Posts The Beauty of Natural Timber A Home Made for Living Designed for the Way We Live Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.

Some of life’s best moments happen around the dining table. The first coffee of the morning.Breakfast before everyone rushes out the door. Homework spreads across one end of the table while dinner is being prepared at the other. It’s where we sit down for a quick weeknight meal and somehow stay talking long after the plates are empty. Where Sunday lunch turns into afternoon coffee. Where friends become family, birthdays are celebrated, and at Christmas, we always seem to find room for one more chair. A dining table may begin as a piece of furniture. But over time, it becomes part of the family. A Place for Everyday Moments Most memories aren’t made on special occasions. They’re made in the little moments that happen every day. A sleepy breakfast.An after-school snack. A cup of tea with someone you love. Dinner together after a long day. For these everyday moments, a 190cm dining table gives you room to gather while still feeling intimate. The Oxford Acacia Dining Table 190cm brings the relaxed warmth of Modern Coastal living into the home, while the Richmond Dining Table 190cm offers a clean, understated Modern Scandinavian feel. Different in character, but designed for the same thing: Bringing people together. When Everyone Comes Over Then there are the days when the house feels a little fuller. Someone brings dessert. Someone else arrives early. The kids are running between rooms, another bottle is opened, and somehow lunch lasts until sunset. These are the moments a generous dining table was made for. With more space to gather, a 240cm dining table gives everyone a place at the table - whether it’s Sunday lunch, Christmas Day or simply dinner with the people you don’t see often enough. The Byron Acacia Dining Table 240cm brings warm timber character and relaxed Coastal Contemporary style to these larger gatherings. For a lighter Modern Coastal setting, the Oxford Acacia Dining Table 240cm creates an equally generous place to come together. Because when everyone is home, having a little extra room matters. Byron Acacia Dining Table 160cm 190cm or 240cm? Perhaps the question isn’t simply, “Which size fits my dining room?” Maybe it’s: “How do I imagine living around it?” Choose 190cm for everyday family meals, morning coffees and smaller gatherings. Choose 240cm if yours is the home where everyone gathers - where dinners get bigger, celebrations get louder and there is always space for another guest. Choose the table that fits not only your room, but the life you want to create around it. Find the One That Feels Like Home For relaxed Coastal Contemporary living, discover the warmth of the Byron Dining Collection. For a refined Modern Coastal / Hamptons home, explore the Oxford Dining Collection. For understated Modern Scandinavian simplicity, meet the Richmond Dining Collection. Three different expressions of Australian living. All created around the same idea: Byron Acacia Dining Table 240cm A place to gather. More Than a Place to Eat Years from now, you may not remember every meal served at your dining table. But you’ll remember the people who sat around it. The birthdays. The Christmas lunches. Ordinary Tuesday nights. The conversations that went on were too long. And all those little moments that didn’t feel important at the time but somehow became the ones worth remembering. Because the heart of a home isn’t always a room. Sometimes, it’s simply the table we keep coming back to. Richmond Pine Dining Table 240cm - Black The Australian Dining Table More than a place to eat. A place to gather, connect and belong. Find a table that fits the way you live. Discover Cedora Dining Collections. Related Posts Six Seater or Eight Seater Dining Table? A Dining Bench Is 32cm Shorter Than the Table, and That Is Deliberate Are Dining Sets Worth Buying? Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.

Furniture for real homes, real moments and the way Australians live. At Cedora, we believe a beautiful home should be more than something to look at. It should be somewhere to live. A place for slow Sunday mornings and busy weekday breakfasts. For dinners that bring everyone back to the table. For friends who stay longer than planned. For quiet evenings, growing families and all the ordinary moments that eventually become the ones we remember most. That idea sits at the heart of Cedora. We create furniture not simply to fill a space, but to become part of the life that happens within it. Designed with a Point of View Every home has its own character. Manchester Pine King Bed Frame Some feel light and coastal. Others are warm and contemporary. Some find comfort in classic details, while others feel most at home surrounded by simplicity. That is why Cedora doesn’t believe in one single way to create a beautiful home. Our collections explore distinct design perspectives - from the Classic Hamptons character of London and Manchester to the Contemporary Scandinavian simplicity of Liverpool Bedroom, the relaxed Coastal Contemporary warmth of Byron and the clean Modern Scandinavian expression of Richmond. Different styles for different homes. Connected by the same belief in thoughtful, liveable design. Made to Work Beautifully Good furniture has to do more than look good. Richmond Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard - Black A dining table needs to make room for Tuesday night dinner - and the extra guests who arrive on Sunday. A sideboard might display your favourite objects today and hide away the realities of family life tomorrow. A bedside table holds the lamp you carefully chose, alongside the phone charger, half-read book and glass of water that actually live there. These details matter to us. Because functionality isn’t separate from good design. It is part of it. Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Natural Inspired by the Way Australians Live Australian homes have their own rhythm. We love spaces that feel open and relaxed. Dining rooms that welcome people in rather than asking them to sit formally. Natural materials, warm timber and interiors that feel considered without feeling untouchable. Our homes move easily between everyday living and entertaining. Furniture should be able to do the same. From a Byron Dining Table surrounded by family on Sunday afternoon to a Liverpool Bed waiting at the end of a long day, we design our collections with these real moments in mind. Not for a perfect home. For your home. Style That Leaves Room for You We love beautiful interiors. But we don’t believe your home should look exactly like someone else’s. Furniture should create the foundation. You bring the personality. The photographs on the sideboard. The chair that always gets pulled into another room. The flowers from the weekend market. The artwork you’ve had for years. The things collected on holidays and the pieces that mean something only to you. Over time, these layers are what turn a room into your room. Our role is simply to give them somewhere beautiful to belong. Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Black This Is Cedora Cedora is about considered design without making home feel complicated. Liverpool Pine 6 Drawer Chest - Natural It’s about furniture with character, made for spaces that are actually lived in. It’s about discovering your style rather than following someone else’s. And above all, it’s about creating a home that feels good to come back to. Because we believe the best homes aren’t necessarily the most perfect. They’re the ones filled with life. Cedora A Home Made for Living. Designed for your style. Made for your everyday. Related Posts The Beauty of Natural Timber One Room, Three Ways: Coastal, Scandinavian and Hamptons Choosing Between the Cedora Bedroom Ranges Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.

If you have been comparing these two, the frustrating part is that nobody will tell you plainly what separates them. Both are solid acacia. Both put that timber on top and paint the frame white. Both cover a dining room and a living room and stop before the bedroom. Both come from the same maker, at nearly the same price per piece. The store files one as coastal and the other as farmhouse, and that is a genuine positioning difference, not a material one. What actually decides it for most households is a simpler question: how big is your room. Key Takeaways Same material in both: solid acacia top, white painted frame, MDF back panel on the sideboard and TV unit. Byron runs smaller, including the only acacia table under 190cm. Oxford runs larger: 180cm sideboard and TV unit against Byron's 160cm. Oxford carries timber onto the sideboard door fronts. Byron keeps it to the tops. The coffee tables are dimensionally identical and the chairs are within a centimetre. Same Timber, Same Build, Different Shelf Start with what is not in dispute. Both ranges list solid acacia, with the sideboard and TV unit in each carrying an MDF back panel that sits against the wall. Both put the acacia where you see and use it, and paint everything structural white. If you were shown an unlabelled tabletop from each you would not reliably tell them apart. Where they diverge is how the store groups them. The Coastal Furniture collection is exactly the twelve Byron pieces. The Farmhouse Furniture collection is exactly the eleven Oxford ones. Two labels, no overlap. Read those labels as descriptions of proportion, not of material. Byron is lighter and more compact, which is what coastal styling usually means in practice. Oxford is broader and more substantial, which is the farmhouse end of the same idea. Neither is more or less of a timber purchase than the other. Byron Goes Smaller The Byron Acacia Dining Table 160cm is the piece Oxford has no answer to. At W1600 x D800 x H760 (mm) it seats four, and it is 100mm shallower than every other acacia table in the catalogue. In an apartment or a galley kitchen where the walkway past the table is the constraint, that shallower depth is worth more than the length. The pattern holds through the range. The Byron Acacia 3 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard is 1600mm wide, the Byron Acacia 2 Door TV Unit the same, and the Byron Acacia 3 Drawer Console Table is 1200mm long. These are pieces drawn for rooms with normal walls, not long ones. Byron also gives you more drawers where it counts. Three drawers and three cupboards in the sideboard against Oxford's one drawer and four cupboards. If your dining storage is cutlery, placemats and candles rather than platters and serving bowls, that split matters more than the extra 200mm of width. Byron Acacia Dining Table 160cm [products-of-collection collection="coastal-furniture" heading="Byron: the Coastal Grouping" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-byox-1"] Oxford Goes Bigger Oxford starts where Byron's mid-size sits. The dining tables are 190cm and 240cm only, and the case pieces step up: the Oxford Acacia 4 Door 1 Drawer Sideboard is W180 x D45 x H85cm and the Oxford Acacia TV Unit the same 180cm width. The console is the piece that best shows the difference in thinking. The Oxford Acacia Console Table is W150 x D36 x H76cm: half a metre longer than Byron's and two centimetres shallower. That is a hallway piece for a proper hallway, one where you want length along the wall and as little intrusion into the walking space as possible. Four cupboard doors rather than three also changes what the sideboard is for. Oxford's is closed storage with a single drawer across the middle, which suits platters, serving bowls and the things that come out when you entertain. It is the range for a house that hosts, not one that mostly eats. Byron Oxford Dining tables 160cm, 190cm, 240cm 190cm, 240cm Sideboard 160cm wide, 3 door 3 drawer, 86cm high 180cm wide, 4 door 1 drawer, 85cm high TV unit 160cm wide, 55cm high 180cm wide, 60cm high Console W120 x D38 x H82.5cm W150 x D36 x H76cm Small table End table, 55 x 55 x 55cm Side table, 55 x 55 x 58cm Coffee table 130 x 70 x 45cm 130 x 70 x 45cm Chair W47.6 x D54.1 x H88.5cm W46.8 x D55 x H88.7cm Pieces 12 11 Where the Timber Stops Is the Visual Difference This is the one you can actually see across a room, and it is not in any specification. On the Byron sideboard the acacia is the top and nothing else. The body is white, the doors are white, and the timber reads as a warm line along the upper edge of an otherwise painted piece. On the Oxford sideboard the acacia carries down onto the door fronts. The timber occupies most of the visible area and the white becomes a frame around it. Standing in front of both, Byron is painted furniture with a timber top and Oxford is timber furniture in a painted case. That is the practical version of the coastal and farmhouse labels. A white-dominant piece keeps a small or bright room feeling light. A timber-dominant piece gives a larger room something with weight in it. Neither is a better design, and if you are mixing ranges it is worth knowing which way each one leans before you put them on the same wall. Byron Acacia 3 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard [products-of-collection collection="farmhouse-furniture" heading="Oxford: the Farmhouse Grouping" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-byox-2"] The Pieces That Are Genuinely the Same Three items make the mixing question easy. The coffee tables are identical at 130 x 70 x 45cm in both ranges. The small tables are within three centimetres, at 55 x 55 x 55cm for the Byron end table and 55 x 55 x 58cm for the Oxford side table. And the chairs sit within a centimetre of each other on every dimension. The Byron Acacia Dining Chair Set of 2 is W47.6 x D54.1 x H88.5cm and the Oxford Acacia Dining Chair Set of 2 is W46.8 x D55 x H88.7cm. Both upholster the seat on a white timber frame. Nobody sitting at your table will ever identify which range a chair came from. That matters if you are furnishing in stages or buying secondhand later. Cross-range mixing usually fails on colour, and here the whites and the timber tones are the same because the construction is the same. A Byron table with Oxford storage is a legitimate plan, not a compromise. Which One to Buy Take Byron if the room is compact, if you want a four-seat table, or if your dining storage is small items that want drawers. Twelve pieces, the lightest look of the two, and the only acacia table that fits a genuinely small space. Take Oxford if you have a long wall to fill, if you host and need cupboard space for serving pieces, or if you want more visible timber in the room. The 180cm case pieces and the 150cm console need the space, and in the right room they carry it where a 160cm piece would look under-scaled. And if your room sits between the two, remember the pieces are compatible. Buy the table from whichever range fits the floor and the storage from whichever fits the wall. That is a better answer than forcing one range to do a job the other was drawn for. Frequently Asked Questions What is the difference between Byron and Oxford? Size, mostly. Byron runs a 160cm dining table and 160cm case pieces. Oxford starts at 190cm and its sideboard and TV unit are 180cm. Both are a solid acacia top on a white painted frame. Which one suits a small dining room? Byron. Its 160cm table at W1600 x D800 x H760 (mm) seats four and is the only acacia table under 190cm in the range. Oxford has no equivalent. Do they use the same timber? Yes. Both are recorded as solid acacia, with an MDF back panel on the sideboard and TV unit in each range. The visible timber and the white frame are the same idea in both. Why is one called coastal and the other farmhouse? They are grouped that way in store: the Coastal Furniture collection is the twelve Byron pieces and the Farmhouse Furniture collection is the eleven Oxford ones. The construction is the same, so treat the labels as shorthand for proportions rather than materials. Can I mix Byron and Oxford in one room? Yes, more easily than most cross-range mixes, because the timber and the frame colour match. The coffee tables are identical at 130 x 70 x 45cm and the chairs are within a centimetre of each other, so a Byron table with Oxford storage reads as one room. 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Coastal furniture goes wrong when it starts announcing itself. Rope handles, painted anchors, a shell in a jar on every surface, and suddenly a living room reads like a rental at Byron Bay rather than a home someone lives in year round. The Byron range takes the opposite route. Solid acacia tops on white painted frames, no motifs, no theme. This is how the twelve pieces work across a dining room and a living room, what the timber actually is, and which table size fits which house. Key Takeaways Every Byron top is solid acacia, every frame is painted white. Three table sizes: 160cm seats four, 190cm seats six, 240cm seats eight. The sideboard stands 860mm high, taller than the dining table, so it doubles as a serving bench. The console, coffee table and end table all carry a lower shelf. Byron and the Coastal Furniture collection are the same twelve pieces. A Coastal Look That Does Not Need Shells on the Shelf What makes Byron read as coastal is the contrast, not the decoration. A white frame drops away against a pale wall, so what your eye actually lands on is the acacia top: warm, open grained, a shade or two darker than the frame carrying it. That is the same trick a weatherboard verandah plays, where the timber does the talking and the paintwork stays quiet. It matters in an Australian house because our light is unforgiving. Midday sun through a north-facing window flattens dark furniture into a silhouette and turns high-gloss surfaces into a glare. A matte white frame reflects that light back gently, and the timber warms it. A room with the Byron range in it looks the same at eight in the morning as it does at four in the afternoon. A dark timber setting in a west-facing room does not. The practical upside is that you never have to commit to a theme. Byron sits under linen, under rattan, under a jute rug, and equally under black-framed windows and a concrete floor. Nothing about it insists on a beach house, which is exactly why it survives the years when everyone gets tired of coastal styling. Three Table Sizes, and the One Most Homes Get Wrong The Byron Acacia Dining Table 160cm measures W1600 x D800 x H760 (mm) and seats four. It is the size people skip past on the way to something bigger, and it is the right answer more often than they think. At 800mm deep rather than 900mm, it gives back a hundred millimetres of walkway, which in an apartment or a galley kitchen is the difference between squeezing past a seated guest and walking past them. The Byron Acacia Dining Table 190cm at W1900 x D900 x H760 (mm) seats six and is the volume seller for a reason: four every night, six when the grandparents come. The Byron Acacia Dining Table 240cm at W2400 x D1000 x H760 (mm) seats eight and is a genuine entertaining table, the one you buy because Christmas happens at your place now. Measure the floor before you fall for the table. The usual mistake is buying for the four times a year you host rather than the three hundred and sixty one days you walk around it. If the bigger table means turning sideways to get to the kitchen every morning, the smaller one will make you happier. Byron Acacia Dining Table 160cm with 4 Chairs Chairs, and the Settings Sold Ready to Go Chairs come in pairs as the Byron Acacia Dining Chair Set of 2, W476 x D541 x H885 (mm), with a white frame, a slatted back and an upholstered seat. The upholstery is the part that earns its keep. A timber seat is fine for twenty minutes and punishing for two hours, and Australian dinners in summer have a way of stretching from the table to the deck and back again. At 476mm wide the chairs are on the narrow side, which is deliberate. It is what lets three sit comfortably along the long edge of the 240cm table instead of two and a squeeze. It also means they tuck close, so the walkway behind them stays usable when nobody is sitting down. If you would rather not piece it together, three settings arrive matched: the Byron Acacia Dining Table 160cm with 4 Chairs, the Byron Acacia Dining Table 190cm with 6 Chairs, and the Byron Acacia Dining Table 240cm with 8 Chairs. Buying the setting means one delivery and one shade of white, which sounds trivial until you have two whites in the same room that do not agree. Byron Acacia Dining Table 240cm with 8 Chairs Storage That Keeps the Room Bright The Byron Acacia 3 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard is the piece worth planning around. At W1600 x D450 x H860 (mm) it stands a full hundred millimetres above the dining table, which puts the top at a comfortable standing height. Three drawers take cutlery and linen, three cupboards take the platters that surface twice a year, and the top becomes the place food waits while everyone finds a seat. In a house that entertains, that height does more work than the storage does. Next door, the Byron Acacia 2 Door TV Unit runs the same 1600mm width and 450mm depth at a lower H550 (mm), with two doors and open shelving so the things you reach for daily stay out and the cable mess stays behind a door. Matching the width across two rooms is what stops an open-plan space reading as two unrelated purchases pushed against the same wall. The smaller pieces all carry a lower shelf, which is the quiet advantage of this range. The Byron Acacia 3 Drawer Console Table, W1200 x D380x H825 (mm), holds keys and post above and a basket below. The Byron Acacia Coffee Table at W1300 x D700 x H450 (mm) is generous enough for a board game, and the Byron Acacia End Table, W550 x D550 x H550 (mm), parks beside a sofa or a bed without asking for floor space. Byron Acacia 3 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard [products-of-collection collection="byron" heading="Shop the Byron Collection" limit="12" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-byron-1"] Living With a White Frame in an Australian Home Two honest notes before you buy. A painted frame marks sooner than a stained one, and it happens in predictable places: the feet where the vacuum head clips them, the chair rails where shoes rest, the drawer edges near the handles. The upside is that white wipes clean with a damp cloth in seconds, while a raw timber leg holds a scuff for good. Most households find that trade fair. The acacia top is the durable half of the equation. It is a dense timber with a busy grain, and busy grain is forgiving: crumbs of daily wear disappear into the pattern instead of sitting on top of it like they do on a flat, pale surface. Use a placemat under anything straight off the stove, wipe spills rather than letting them sit, and keep the table out of all-day direct sun through an uncovered window, which is the one thing that fades timber faster than use does. Worth knowing: the sideboard and the TV unit carry an MDF back panel, which is standard in cabinet furniture and sits against the wall where nothing touches it. Every surface you actually use, every top and every shelf you set something down on, is solid acacia. If you want the longer version on how the timber behaves, our guide to acacia covers the trade-offs in full. Byron Acacia Coffee Table One Range, Two Rooms, No Theme Byron works because it is small enough to be consistent and broad enough to finish two rooms. Twelve pieces, one timber, one paint colour, and a shape language that does not change between the dining table and the end table beside the sofa. You can start with the table and the chairs, add the sideboard when the cutlery drawer in the kitchen gives up, and put the TV unit in next year without anything looking bolted on. That is the honest case for buying a range rather than assembling a room from six shops. Not that it saves money, because it usually does not, but that it removes the low-grade decision fatigue of trying to match a white you bought eighteen months ago. The whole Coastal Furniture collection is these same twelve pieces, so nothing is hiding around a corner waiting to clash. What it will not do is furnish a bedroom, and it is better to say that now than have you hunting for a matching bed frame. Byron stops at the dining and living rooms. If those are the spaces guests actually see, and the rooms where an Australian summer gets spent with the doors open and people wandering between the table and the deck, then twelve pieces is enough to finish the job properly. Byron Acacia 2 Door TV Unit Frequently Asked Questions Is Byron furniture solid timber? The tops are solid acacia. The frames are painted white, and the sideboard and TV unit also carry an MDF back panel. Everything you put a plate, a cup or a laptop on is solid timber. What size Byron dining table do I need? The 160cm table seats four, the 190cm seats six and the 240cm seats eight. All three stand 760mm high. The 160cm is also 800mm deep rather than 900mm, so it suits an apartment or a galley kitchen where the walkway matters more than the extra centimetres. Does the white frame mark easily? A painted frame shows scuffs sooner than a stained one, most often around the feet and the chair rails where shoes and vacuum heads land. It also wipes clean in seconds, which a raw timber leg does not. The acacia top is the part that takes daily wear, and it hides it well. Can I buy a Byron table and chairs together? Yes. Three settings are matched and priced together: the 160cm table with four chairs, the 190cm with six, and the 240cm with eight. Chairs on their own are sold in pairs. Is Byron the same as Cedora's other coastal furniture? Byron is the coastal range. Every piece in the Coastal Furniture collection is a Byron piece, so the two are the same twelve items viewed two ways. Related Posts What Is Acacia Wood Furniture? Pros, Cons, and Durability Modern Coastal Design: Create a Calm, Refined Home Aesthetic Richmond Collection Room by Room: Dining Tables and Bench Seating Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.

A dining set sounds like a product and it is not. It is the same table and the same chairs sold on one page instead of three, which makes it the rare furniture decision where you can check the maker's claim yourself in about ninety seconds. Worth doing, because the answer is not the same on every bundle. Here is what a set contains, what it typically saves, and how to work out whether the one you are looking at is the cheaper way to buy. Key Takeaways A set is the same table and chairs bundled, not a different product. Bundles typically come in below the separate prices, sometimes by a couple of hundred dollars. Chairs bought on their own come in pairs, so six chairs means three chair sets. Richmond is the only range with bundles that include a bench. Check the arithmetic on your exact combination before ordering, because the gap varies. What Is Actually in a Cedora Dining Set The Dining Sets collection holds fifteen bundles across three ranges: Richmond, Byron and Liverpool. Oxford sells bundles too, listed within its own range rather than in that collection, so it is worth checking there as well if Oxford is your starting point. Each bundle is a table plus a stated number of chairs. The Richmond Pine Dining Table 190cm with 6 chairs - Natural is precisely that, and the table inside it is the same W1900 x D900 x H760 (mm) piece sold on its own page. Nothing about the furniture changes when it is bundled. Two Richmond bundles do something different, pairing four chairs with a bench instead of six chairs. The Richmond Pine Dining Table 240cm with 4 chairs & Bench 208cm - Natural seats eight with half the seating tucking away under the table when it is not in use. No other range offers that, because no other range makes a bench. The Saving, and How to Check It Yourself The method takes a minute. Open the table's own page and note the price. Open the chair page and note the price of a set of two. Multiply that by the number of pairs you need. Add them. Compare to the bundle. On the bundles that discount hardest, the gap is real money. Byron's larger settings come in a couple of hundred dollars under the separate total, and the Richmond bundles land consistently in the same territory. On a purchase of two to three thousand dollars, that is a delivery fee or a rug. The gap is not identical across every combination, though, which is exactly why the check is worth doing rather than assuming. Some pairings sit much closer together than others. If the bundle is cheaper, take it. If your particular combination comes out level, then the decision moves to the things a bundle does regardless of price, which are the next section. What you are comparing How to work it out Table on its own Price from the table's own product page Chairs for six Chair set of 2, multiplied by three Chairs for eight Chair set of 2, multiplied by four Bench bundle Table, plus two chair sets, plus the bench The bundle Single price on the set's own page [products-of-collection collection="dining-sets" heading="Cedora Dining Sets" limit="12" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-sets-1"] Chairs Come in Twos, Which Makes the Maths Odd Every Cedora dining chair is sold as a set of two. The Richmond Pine Dining Chair Set of 2 - Natural, the Byron Acacia Dining Chair Set of 2 and the Liverpool Pine Dining Chair Set of 2 - Natural all work that way, which is why a six seat room means three purchases rather than six. Selling in pairs is genuinely sensible for a dining room, because seating grows in twos. It does mean that if you want an odd number, or five chairs and a stool, the bundle logic stops helping and you are better off buying pieces individually. It also creates the most common overspend in this category. If you already own four chairs you like, do not buy a bundle to get the table. Buy the table. A bundle that includes six chairs you will store in the garage is not a saving under any arithmetic. Byron Acacia Dining Table 240cm with 8 Chairs The Bench Bundles Are the Ones Worth a Look If your dining room is tight, the two Richmond bench bundles do something no discount can. Four chairs down one side, a bench down the other, and the bench sits 30cm below the tabletop so it slides completely underneath between meals. That returns floor space every day rather than saving money once. In a room where the table sits in the path between the kitchen and the living area, having half the seating disappear is worth more than the difference between a bundle price and a separate one. It also seats more people than the chair count suggests. The 208cm bench takes up to four across, so the 240cm bundle with four chairs and a bench handles eight comfortably and squeezes a ninth when somebody arrives unannounced, which four separate chairs cannot do. Richmond Pine Dining Bench 208cm - Natural When Buying Separately Is the Better Plan Three situations, and none of them are about price. The first is mixing finishes. If you want a black table with natural chairs, or a Byron table with Oxford storage, no bundle will do it and buying separately costs you nothing but the bundle discount. The second is staging the purchase. A table and four chairs now, two more chairs next year when the household grows, is a perfectly sensible plan and one the pair-based chair pricing supports well. Bundles ask you to commit to the final seat count on day one. The third is chair preference. The chairs in a bundle are that range's chairs, and the ranges differ more than people expect: Richmond's stand 88cm tall, Liverpool's 83cm. If you sit in both and prefer the other one, buy the table you want and the chairs you want, and treat the lost discount as the price of not regretting it every dinner. How to Choose the Right Bundle Start from the table, not the bundle. Measure the room, decide whether you need 160cm, 190cm or 240cm, and only then look at what is bundled with that table. Choosing a set because the deal looks good is how people end up with a 240cm table in a room that wanted 190cm. Then decide the seating honestly. Count the people who eat there on an ordinary Tuesday, not at Christmas. If that number is four and you host twice a year, a four chair bundle plus two chairs added later beats an eight chair bundle you are storing. And do the arithmetic before you press buy. It takes a minute, it is the only way to know what your particular combination saves, and it is the difference between assuming you got a deal and knowing you did. [products-of-collection collection="dining-chairs" heading="Chairs, Sold in Pairs" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-sets-2"] Frequently Asked Questions Is a dining set cheaper than buying the pieces separately? Usually, and on the bundles that discount hardest it is by a meaningful margin. It is not automatic though, so do the arithmetic on the exact combination you want: table price plus the chair sets, against the bundle price on the same page. How many chairs come in a Cedora dining set? It depends on the bundle. Four, six or eight, and on two Richmond bundles it is four chairs plus a bench. Bought separately, chairs are sold in pairs, so six chairs means three chair sets. Are the pieces in a set different from the ones sold on their own? No. A set is the same table and the same chairs, ordered together. Every dimension is identical, which is why the comparison is purely about price and delivery rather than product. Which ranges sell dining sets? Richmond, Byron, Oxford and Liverpool. Richmond has the most bundles, including the only ones that pair chairs with a bench. Should I buy a set if I already have chairs? No. Buy the table on its own. A set only makes sense when you need the chairs, and paying for six you will not use to save on a bundle is the most common way people overspend in a dining room. Related Posts Matching Dining Table With Chairs: A Pro Guide to Perfect Pairs How Many Chairs for a Dining Table? Australian Size Guide Liverpool or Richmond? The Bench Decides It More Often Than the Table Does Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.

Acacia is the timber people ask about most and understand least. It turns up in the same sentence as oak and teak, it costs a fraction of either, and the usual explanation stops at "durable hardwood" without ever answering the question a buyer actually has, which is what it will look like in their house in five years. Cedora uses it in thirty-one pieces across three ranges. On twenty-three of them the acacia is what you see and touch. On the other eight it is inside the furniture, painted over, and you would never know it was there. Those are two genuinely different purchases, and it is worth knowing which one you are making. Key Takeaways Thirty-one acacia pieces: Byron twelve, Oxford eleven, Newcastle eight. Byron and Oxford show the timber. Newcastle paints over it. Every acacia top is solid. Sideboards and TV units carry an MDF back panel. Byron paints everything but the tops. Oxford carries timber onto door fronts too. Cedora's own Acacia Furniture collection excludes Newcastle, for exactly that reason. Why a Furniture Maker Reaches for Acacia Acacia is dense, it is farmed rather than slow-grown, and it arrives with a grain that is anything but uniform. Boards vary from pale honey to a warmer caramel, often across the same tabletop, and the figure runs in short interlocked passages rather than the long straight lines of oak. It is the opposite of a calm timber. That variability is the whole point commercially. A busy grain forgives, which matters more in a family home than any hardness rating printed on a spec sheet. A cup ring, a fork scrape, the mark a hot plate leaves through a thin tea towel: on a flat pale surface each of those events is an incident, and on acacia most of them simply disappear into the pattern within a week or two. The trade is that you cannot control the look. Two Oxford tables from the same production run will not match board for board, and if you are the sort of person who wants furniture to arrive exactly as photographed, that will bother you. If you would rather your dining table look lived in on purpose than worn out by accident, it is the right timber. Byron: Acacia on Top, White Everywhere Else The twelve Byron pieces follow one rule. The top is solid acacia, everything holding it up is painted white. The Byron Acacia Dining Table 190cm at W1900 x D900 x H760 (mm) is the clearest example: a warm timber plane floating on a frame that visually disappears against a pale wall. It is a deliberate piece of restraint. In a room with a lot of natural light, which describes most Australian living areas facing a garden or a deck, a full timber setting can read heavy by mid-afternoon. Splitting the piece into a timber surface and a white structure keeps the warmth at eye level, where you sit and eat, and takes the weight out of everything below the table line. The same logic runs through the Byron Acacia 3 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard at W1600 x D450 x H860 (mm) and the Byron Acacia Coffee Table. White carcass, timber top, and an MDF back panel on the sideboard and TV unit that sits against the wall where nothing touches it. Byron Acacia 3 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard Oxford: the Timber Goes Further Oxford runs the same combination but does not stop at the top. On the Oxford Acacia 4 Door 1 Drawer Sideboard, W180 x D45 x H85cm, the acacia carries down onto the door fronts, so the timber occupies most of the piece and the white becomes a frame around it. Stand the two sideboards side by side and Byron reads as painted furniture with a timber top, Oxford as timber furniture in a painted case. Oxford also runs larger. The sideboard and the Oxford Acacia TV Unit are both 180cm wide against Byron's 160cm, and the Oxford Acacia Console Table stretches to W150 x D36 x H76cm, which is unusually long and unusually shallow. Thirty-six centimetres is narrow enough for a hallway people still have to walk down. The dining tables are the 190cm at W190 x D90 x H76cm and the 240cm at W240 x D100 x H76cm, seating six and eight. Chairs come in pairs as the Oxford Acacia Dining Chair Set of 2, W46.8 x D55 x H88.7cm, with an upholstered seat on a white timber frame. Oxford Acacia 4 Door 1 Drawer Sideboard [products-of-collection collection="acacia-furniture" heading="Acacia Furniture at Cedora" limit="12" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-acacia-1"] Newcastle: the Acacia You Never See The eight Newcastle pieces list acacia too, and this is where a buyer can be caught out. The bed frames are recorded as a solid acacia headboard with a pine and acacia structure, and the case pieces as a pine and acacia structure. Every one of them is painted white, and on the beds the headboard panel is upholstered in fabric on top of that. There is no visible timber anywhere in the range. That is not a problem, but it does change what you are buying. In Byron and Oxford you are paying for acacia as a finish, and the timber is doing the aesthetic work. In Newcastle you are paying for it as a structure, and the aesthetic work is being done by the shape: curved fronts, moulded edges, shaped legs. Judge Newcastle on its silhouette, because that is what you will actually see. Cedora's own Newcastle chest sits in the French Provincial and bedroom collections rather than the Acacia Furniture one, which is the correct call. If you searched the store for acacia and expected Newcastle to appear, that is why it did not. Newcastle Acacia 6 Drawer Chest Living With Acacia in an Australian House Three things actually matter, and none of them are complicated. Heat is the first: acacia takes daily use well and takes a hot pan badly, so a mat under anything straight off the stove is the whole of the maintenance routine for most households. Standing water is the second, and the answer is to wipe rather than to leave it, particularly around the join lines where boards meet. Sun is the third and the one people underestimate here. A table parked in unfiltered afternoon light through a west-facing window will lighten unevenly over a couple of summers, and the part shaded by a fruit bowl will stay darker than the rest. Sheer curtains solve it, moving the bowl occasionally solves it, and doing neither means living with a pale rectangle you will notice forever. What you do not need is oil, polish, or a maintenance schedule. These pieces arrive sealed and the finish is not something you top up. A damp cloth and the occasional dry one covers it, and the grain handles the rest by being too busy to hold a grudge. Oxford Acacia Console Table Which Range Suits Which Room If the acacia is the reason you are here, that narrows it to twenty-three pieces and a fairly clean split. Byron suits a room where you want warmth at table height and lightness everywhere else, which is most apartments and most open-plan living areas where the furniture has to share a floor with a sofa. It also runs to a 160cm dining table, the smallest in the group, which matters in a compact space. Oxford suits a room with a wall to fill. The 180cm case pieces and the door-front timber give it more presence, and in a larger dining room or a hallway with a proper run of wall it holds its ground where a lighter piece would look lost. Both ranges cover dining and living. Neither covers a bedroom. Newcastle is the answer only if what you want is the Provincial shape, and the acacia is incidental. Buy it for the curves, the upholstered headboard and the painted finish, and treat the timber inside as what it is: the structure doing its job quietly, where nobody sees it. All three ranges list acacia on the spec sheet, but only the Acacia Furniture pieces are really about the wood. Frequently Asked Questions How many acacia pieces does Cedora make? Thirty-one across three ranges: twelve in Byron, eleven in Oxford and eight in Newcastle. On the twenty-three Byron and Oxford pieces the acacia is the surface you see. On the eight Newcastle pieces it is structural and painted over. Is Cedora's acacia furniture solid timber? The tops are solid acacia. The frames on Byron and Oxford are painted, and the sideboards and TV units in both ranges carry an MDF back panel, which sits against the wall. Every surface you set something down on is solid timber. What is the difference between Byron and Oxford acacia? Mostly where the timber stops. Byron puts acacia on the tops and paints the rest. Oxford carries it further, including onto the sideboard door fronts. Oxford also runs to larger case pieces at 180cm wide against Byron's 160cm. Does acacia furniture mark easily? Less than most pale timbers, because the grain is busy and varied enough to absorb small marks rather than frame them. Heat and standing water are the real risks, so use a mat under anything straight off the stove and wipe spills rather than leaving them. Why is Newcastle not in the Acacia Furniture collection? Because you cannot see the timber. The Acacia Furniture collection groups the pieces where acacia is the visible finish, which is Byron and Oxford. Newcastle's acacia sits inside a painted frame and behind an upholstered headboard. Related Posts What Is Acacia Wood Furniture? 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