The natural or black question is unusual because for once you are not comparing two products. It is the same table, the same joinery, the same dimensions to the millimetre. Only the finish changes, which makes it the purest decision in the whole catalogue and, oddly, the one people agonise over longest. Worth knowing before you start: black is not offered everywhere. Thirty-three pieces carry it, and all of them come from two ranges. Choosing the finish quietly chooses a lot of other things too. Key Takeaways Black is offered on 33 pieces, all of them Liverpool or Richmond. The black and natural versions of a piece are dimensionally identical. Black defines an outline and anchors a bright room. Natural carries light and recedes. Black shows dust sooner. Natural shows dents sooner. Mixing the two works because nothing but the colour changes between them. Black Exists in Two Ranges Only Twenty of the black pieces are Liverpool and thirteen are Richmond. Every other Cedora range comes in one finish: Byron, Oxford, London, Manchester, Bristol and Newcastle have no black option at all. That changes the order you should make decisions in. If black is non-negotiable for you, the range question is already answered, and the real choice is between Liverpool's forty-piece whole-home spread and Richmond's dining-focused twenty seven with its bench seating. Everything else drops out of consideration. It also means black covers different rooms depending on which you pick. Liverpool's black reaches the bedroom, with bed frames, bedside tables, a tallboy, a chest and a mirror all available in it. Richmond's black stops at the dining and living rooms, because that is where the range stops. [products-of-collection collection="black-furniture" heading="Every Cedora Piece Offered in Black" limit="12" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-black-1"] What Black Does to a Bright Australian Room Our light is the reason this decision plays out differently here than it does in a European catalogue. Through most of the year an Australian living room takes hard, high-angle light for a good part of the day, and pale timber under that light flattens. The grain washes out, the edges lose definition, and a beautiful table can look like a bench top by two in the afternoon. Black does the opposite. It reads as an outline rather than a surface, so the shape of the piece is what you see, and strong light sharpens it instead of bleaching it. Against blonde floorboards or a pale rug, a black table draws a clean line through the room and gives everything else something to sit against. Where it goes wrong is a room that is already dark. A south-facing dining room with dark floors and one small window does not need more weight in it, and black furniture there stops being a feature and starts being a shadow. Check the floor first: pale floor, black works; dark floor, think harder. Richmond Pine Dining Table 240cm - Natural What Natural Does to a Small One Natural timber is the better answer more often than the photographs suggest, because photographs are taken in large rooms. In a compact space, a pale finish lets furniture recede into the walls rather than punctuating them, and the room reads as bigger than the floor plan says. It also handles a room with a lot of other things going on. If you have a rug with a pattern, art on the walls and open shelving, black furniture adds another strong element to a room that is already busy. Natural steps back and lets the rest of it work. The third argument is longevity of taste rather than material. A natural timber table has looked correct in Australian homes for eighty years and will look correct in twenty more. Black is a stronger position, and stronger positions are the ones people tire of first. That is not a reason to avoid it, but it is worth being honest with yourself about how long you intend to keep the piece. The Maintenance Difference Nobody Mentions Both finishes are easy. They are just easy in different ways, and knowing which annoyance you are signing up for is more useful than a general reassurance. Black shows dust within a day or two, particularly on a horizontal surface in raking afternoon light. It shows fingerprints around handles and it shows the fine lint that comes off tea towels. None of it is damage and all of it wipes off, but if you are the sort of person who notices these things you will be wiping more often. Natural shows the opposite. Dust more or less disappears on it, but a dent, a scratch or a ring is more visible because there is no dark tone to absorb the shadow. The saving grace is grain: on a timber surface with real figure, small marks blend into the pattern within a few weeks, which is why a natural table tends to look better at three years than it did at three months. Black Natural Ranges offered in Liverpool, Richmond All eight ranges Pieces available 33 128 In a bright room Sharpens, defines the outline Can flatten under hard light In a small room Adds visual weight Recedes, keeps the space open Shows sooner Dust, fingerprints, lint Dents, scratches, rings Hides better Small dents and knocks Dust and everyday grime Mixing Them Is Allowed, and It Works Because the black and natural versions of a piece are geometrically identical, mixing them is a genuinely safe plan rather than a risk. A black Richmond Pine Dining Table 240cm - Black with a natural Richmond Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard reads as deliberate, because every other visual signal in the room agrees: same leg frame, same proportions, same detailing. The usual approach that works is to put black on the piece you want noticed and natural on the pieces that support it. A black dining table with natural chairs. A black TV unit against a wall with a natural coffee table in front of the sofa. What does not work is a fifty-fifty split, which reads as indecision rather than contrast. One practical footnote. The Richmond end table is currently offered in natural only, so a fully black Richmond living room will have one piece that breaks the run. In a mixed scheme that is invisible. In an all-black one it is worth planning around. [products-of-collection collection="richmond" heading="Richmond, in Both Finishes" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-black-2"] How to Decide in Your Own Room Stand in the room at the time of day you use it most and look at the floor. If it is pale timber, polished concrete or light tile, black furniture will define itself against it and the room can carry the contrast. If the floor is dark timber or a dark carpet, natural is doing you a favour. Then look at the walls. White or off-white walls give black something to push against. Warm greige or a deeper colour already carries visual weight, and adding black on top usually makes a room feel heavier than anyone intended. And if you genuinely cannot decide, buy the table in the finish you keep returning to and let the storage pieces follow later. The black range and the natural version of the same piece will still both be there, and a room assembled over two years with one clear anchor almost always looks better than one bought in a single afternoon. Frequently Asked Questions Which Cedora ranges come in black? Only Liverpool and Richmond. That is 33 pieces in total, twenty from Liverpool and thirteen from Richmond. The other six ranges are offered in their single finish only, so choosing black also chooses your range. Is the black version a different product? No. It is the same piece with a different finish, so every dimension is identical. A black Richmond 240cm table and a natural one are both W2400 x D1000 x H760 (mm). Does black furniture make a room look smaller? It makes furniture look more defined, which reads as smaller in a cramped room and as anchored in a large one. Against pale floorboards, black draws a clean outline. In a narrow room with dark floors it can close the space in. Which finish shows marks more? Different marks. Black shows dust, fingerprints and lint sooner. Natural shows dents and scratches sooner, though its grain hides small ones well. Neither is harder to look after, they just fail differently. Can I mix natural and black in the same room? Yes, and it works better here than most places because the shapes are identical across both finishes. A black table with a natural sideboard reads as a decision rather than an accident, since nothing else about the two pieces disagrees. Related Posts Liverpool or Richmond? The Bench Decides It More Often Than the Table Does Richmond Collection Room by Room: Dining Tables and Bench Seating How to Mix Wood Tones: A Designer Guide to Coordinating Finishes Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.
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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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These are the two ranges Cedora customers actually get stuck between. Both build a dining room properly, both come in natural and black, both are pine underneath, and both put a 190cm and a 240cm table on the floor. Sitting side by side in a product grid they look like a preference rather than a decision. The differences are real, but almost none of them are in the photographs. They are in the depth of the tabletop, the height of the chair backs, whether a bench exists at all, and how far each range reaches once you leave the dining room. Key Takeaways Richmond is the only one with benches, in 158cm and 208cm. The Liverpool 240cm table is 110cm deep against Richmond's 100cm. Richmond chairs stand 88cm tall, Liverpool's 83cm. Liverpool offers two sideboard sizes and two TV unit sizes. Richmond offers one of each. Liverpool has forty pieces including a bedroom. Richmond has twenty seven and stops at the living room. The Tables Look the Same Until You Measure the Depth Both ranges run a 190cm and a 240cm table at 76cm high, and at 190cm they are effectively the same footprint: 90cm deep in both cases, seating six. If your room only takes the smaller table, this comparison barely matters and you should choose on looks. At 240cm they part company. The Liverpool Pine Dining Table 240cm is 110cm deep. The Richmond Pine Dining Table 240cm - Natural is 100cm. Ten centimetres does not sound like a decision until you are the person setting a table for eight with a roast, two sides and a jug in the middle of it. The cost is the same ten centimetres of floor on both sides. In a dining room that is already tight across its short dimension, the Richmond table gives you back walking room the Liverpool does not. Measure across the narrow direction of the room before you decide which way that trade falls. Liverpool Pine Dining Table 240cm - Natural Only One of Them Does Benches Richmond has four bench SKUs, in 158cm and 208cm, and they are the only dining benches in the entire Cedora catalogue. Both sit 46cm high against a 76cm tabletop, which means 30cm of clearance and a bench that slides completely back under the table when the meal is over. That single fact resolves this comparison for a lot of households. A bench seats three or four across without four separate chair backs breaking the sightline, it takes an extra person who arrives unannounced, and it disappears between meals in a way chairs cannot. In a narrow dining room or an open-plan space where the table sits in the traffic path, it is worth more than any material difference. If bench seating is not part of your plan, this section costs Liverpool nothing. But it is worth being honest that no amount of comparing tabletops matters if the thing you actually wanted was a bench. Richmond Pine Dining Bench 208cm - Natural [products-of-collection collection="richmond" heading="Richmond Dining, With Bench Seating" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-lvr-1"] The Chairs Are Not Interchangeable Both sell chairs in pairs, both upholster the seat, and the dimensions diverge more than you would guess. The Liverpool Pine Dining Chair Set of 2 - Natural is W54 x D54 x H83cm. The Richmond Pine Dining Chair Set of 2 - Natural is W51 x D62 x H88cm. Five centimetres of back height changes what you see from the doorway. Richmond's taller backs read as more formal and give more support when a meal runs long. Liverpool's lower backs sit closer to the tabletop line, which keeps a small dining area feeling open, particularly when six chairs are in the room at once. Width matters for a different reason. At 51cm the Richmond chair fits three along the long side of a 240cm table with room to spare. At 54cm the Liverpool chair does the same but with less margin, so if you are seating eight regularly the Richmond arrangement is the more comfortable one. Liverpool Richmond Chair W54 x D54 x H83cm W51 x D62 x H88cm Table 240cm W240 x D110 x H76cm W240 x D100 x H76cm Bench None 158cm and 208cm, 46cm high Sideboard 130cm and 180cm, both 76cm high 160cm, 65cm high TV unit 140cm and 180cm 160cm Material Pine frame with oak veneer Solid oak legs, pine structure Pieces 40, including bedroom 27, dining and living only Storage: Liverpool Flexes, Richmond Commits This is where Liverpool's size starts to tell. It offers two sideboards, at 130cm and 180cm, and two TV units, at 140cm and 180cm, all in both finishes. Richmond offers one sideboard at 160cm and one TV unit at 160cm. If your wall is 150cm or 200cm rather than something in between, that flexibility is the practical difference between a piece that fits and a piece that nearly fits. Height differs too, and it is the detail most people miss. The Liverpool Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard - Natural stands 76cm high, level with the dining table. The Richmond Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard is 65cm. A sideboard at table height works as a serving surface you can slide dishes across. A lower one reads more like a console and keeps the wall feeling open above it. Neither is better. They suit different habits. If you plate up at the sideboard when you entertain, take the taller one. If the sideboard is mostly storage with a lamp on it, the lower one keeps the room lighter. Liverpool Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard - Natural One Owns the Dining Room, One Covers the House Richmond is a dining range that extends into the living room. Twenty seven pieces, twelve of them dining tables or settings, four benches, and then a sideboard, a TV unit, a console, a coffee table and an end table to carry the look next door. There is no bed, no bedside, no tallboy. Liverpool is a whole-home range at forty pieces. It does everything Richmond does in the dining and living rooms, then adds six bed frames, two bedside tables, two tallboys, two chests and two mirrors. If the plan is to furnish a house rather than a room, that breadth is not a nice extra, it is the entire argument. The trade for that breadth is the material. Liverpool is a pine frame with an oak veneer surface, which is what makes a consistent look across forty pieces affordable. Richmond puts solid oak in the legs, where a dining table takes its punishment, and pine in between. Which matters more depends on whether you are buying one hard-working table or a coherent house. How to Actually Choose Take Richmond if the dining table is the centre of the house, if you want bench seating, or if you are buying one table to survive fifteen years of family meals. Solid oak legs and a 100cm depth suit a room where the table is used hard and the floor around it is tight. Take Liverpool if you are furnishing more than one room, if your wall needs a 130cm or 180cm sideboard rather than a 160cm one, or if you want the deeper 240cm tabletop for entertaining. Forty matching pieces is a genuine advantage when the alternative is assembling a house from four different shops. And if you are still tied after all that, go and sit in the chairs. Five centimetres of back height and eight centimetres of seat depth is a bigger difference in practice than anything on this page, and it is the only part of the decision a specification cannot make for you. [products-of-collection collection="liverpool" heading="Liverpool, Dining to Bedroom" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-lvr-2"] Frequently Asked Questions Which is bigger, the Liverpool or Richmond dining table? Both come in 190cm and 240cm. The difference is depth: the Liverpool 240cm is 110cm deep against 100cm on the Richmond. Ten centimetres down the middle of a table is the room for serving dishes without crowding place settings. Does Liverpool have dining benches? No, and no other Cedora range does either. Bench seating exists in Richmond alone, at 158cm and 208cm. If it is part of your plan, that settles the question before you get to the tables. What is the difference in materials? Richmond uses solid oak legs on a pine structure. Liverpool uses a solid pine frame with an oak veneer surface. Richmond puts real hardwood where the knocks land, Liverpool puts an oak surface across everything you see. Which range covers more of the house? Liverpool, comfortably. Forty pieces including six bed frames, bedside tables, tallboys, chests and mirrors. Richmond's twenty seven pieces stop at the dining and living rooms. Do both come in black? Yes. Both ranges offer natural and black across the range, so the choice between them is not a colour decision. The end table is the one exception, sold in natural only in Richmond. Related Posts Richmond Collection Room by Room: Dining Tables and Bench Seating Dining Bench vs Chairs: How to Choose the Best Seating Oak Is in 75 Cedora Pieces, and None of Them Is Solid Oak Throughout Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.
Put the Cedora bedroom ranges in a row and the confusion is understandable. Five of them sell the same list: a bed frame, a two drawer bedside, a five drawer tallboy, a six drawer chest and a mirror. Four of the five are white, and every one of them is 45cm deep in the case pieces and 140cm wide in the chest. On a product grid, four of them are versions of the same photograph. The fifth, Liverpool, is the one that looks different and is built to the same grid underneath. Three numbers decide the whole thing: what the headboard is made of, how much fits in the drawers, and how much floor the bed takes. Everything else is preference. Key Takeaways Five bedroom ranges, not four. Liverpool is the one in bare timber rather than paint. Headboards differ completely: panelled, slatted or upholstered. Only London and Manchester offer beds with drawers, and they sit in the footboard. Liverpool has the largest drawer interiors, Newcastle the smallest, in identical cabinets. Bristol's queen frame is the narrowest at 162.4cm; Liverpool's is the widest at 171cm. Start With the Headboard, Because It Is All You See From the Door This is the only difference visible from three metres away, and it is the one people notice for years. London and Manchester both use a panelled timber headboard, 120cm tall, with moulded edges and a plinth base. It is the Hamptons answer: formal, symmetrical, and it makes a bed look like a piece of architecture rather than a mattress on legs. Bristol uses a slatted headboard instead. Vertical timber slats with air between them, which reads as Scandinavian and, more usefully, does not visually block the wall behind it. In a small room or a room with a window near the bedhead, that transparency is worth more than it sounds. Two ranges upholster. Newcastle sets a fabric panel inside a curved painted surround at 123.5cm, and the Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Natural sets one inside a bare timber frame at 125cm and repeats it at the foot of the bed. Those are the two you can lean back against for an hour, which matters if the bed doubles as the place you read or work. Range Headboard Height Style London Panelled timber 120cm Classic Hamptons Manchester Panelled timber 120cm Classic Hamptons Bristol Slatted timber 120cm Scandinavian Newcastle Upholstered fabric, painted frame 123.5cm French Provincial Liverpool Upholstered fabric, timber frame 125cm Contemporary Scandinavian Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Natural Then Ask Whether You Want Drawers in the Bed This cuts the field to two immediately. Only London and Manchester offer a bed with storage, in all three sizes, and in both cases the two drawers sit in the footboard and pull out toward the end of the bed rather than along the sides. That detail is the reason they work in Australian bedrooms at all. A side-opening drawer needs a clear run of floor beside the bed, which most rooms with a robe on one wall simply do not have. A footboard drawer needs the walkway at the end, which every room has. London's drawers are 43.7cm deep and 24.9cm high inside, Manchester's 43cm and 25.9cm. Bristol, Newcastle and Liverpool are plain frames only. That is not a gap so much as a different plan: Bristol's base sits 30cm off the floor and leaves the whole area underneath open, which takes storage boxes on castors that can be pulled from whichever side is actually free. If you rearrange rooms, that flexibility beats a fixed drawer. Manchester Pine Queen Bed Frame with 2 Drawers [products-of-collection collection="hamptons-bedroom-furniture" heading="Beds With Footboard Storage" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-bed4-1"] Then Measure Your Floor, Not Your Mattress A queen mattress is 153cm wide in every one of these beds. What changes is the frame around it, and the spread is wider than you would expect. Bristol's queen is 162.4cm, Newcastle's 164cm, London and Manchester 169cm, Liverpool 171cm. That is 8.6cm between the narrowest and the widest for exactly the same sleeping surface. In a large main bedroom the difference is invisible. In a three by three and a half metre second bedroom, which describes an enormous share of Australian housing, nearly nine centimetres is the gap between walking past the end of the bed and turning sideways to do it. Measure the floor and work backwards. Liverpool is also the longest at 224cm, another 5cm over Bristol. The tallboys run the other way. Liverpool's is 100cm tall, Bristol's 110cm, Manchester's and Newcastle's 114cm, London's 120cm, all on the same 100 x 45cm footprint. A lower tallboy keeps the sense of height in a small room and gives you a surface you can actually see the top of. Range Queen frame Tallboy height Bed with drawers Bristol 162.4 x 215.5cm 110cm No Newcastle 164 x 219cm 114cm No Manchester 169 x 219cm 114cm Yes London 169 x 218.1cm 120cm Yes Liverpool 171 x 224cm 100cm No The Drawer Volume Nobody Thinks to Compare Every one of these ranges sells a six drawer chest measuring exactly W140 x D45 x H85cm. Identical outside. Inside, the drawers vary by more than half in volume, and nothing on the shelf tells you which is which. Liverpool's chest drawers are 63.1cm wide, 36.9cm deep and 24.6cm high. Newcastle's are 62.35 x 37.8 x 16cm. That 8.6cm of height is the difference between a stack of folded jumpers sitting flat and the same stack stopping the drawer from closing. The reason is styling: Newcastle's shaped fronts and curved carcass take their volume from the inside, while Liverpool's flat fronts give it all back. The bedside tables tell the same story in miniature. Liverpool's drawers are 46.4 x 36.9 x 22.5cm, Bristol's 42.5 x 37 x 19.2cm, Newcastle's 42.6 x 34.7 x 15.1cm. If storage is genuinely why you are buying, this is the table to read rather than the price list. Range Chest drawer (W x D x H) Bedside drawer Tallboy lower drawer Liverpool 63.1 x 36.9 x 24.6cm 46.4 x 36.9 x 22.5cm 86.4cm wide, 22.5cm high Bristol 62.5 x 37 x 20.3cm 42.5 x 37 x 19.2cm 87.5cm wide, 20.8cm high Manchester 59 x 37 x 20.6cm 37.5 x 37 x 18.6cm 81.5cm wide, 22.5cm high London 59 x 38.3 x 19.1cm 35.5 x 38.3 x 17.5cm 80.5cm wide, 22.5cm high Newcastle 62.35 x 37.8 x 16cm 42.6 x 34.7 x 15.1cm 87.6cm wide, 18.5cm high Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest What They Are Actually Made Of All five use pine structurally, and they differ entirely in how much of any timber you get to see. London and Manchester are a solid pine structure finished in crisp white, top to bottom. There is no exposed grain anywhere in either range. Bristol splits the difference: a solid oak top on a painted pine carcass, so every horizontal surface you put something on is hardwood and everything else is paint. Newcastle lists a pine and acacia structure with a solid acacia headboard frame, all painted, with the fabric panel over the headboard. The acacia is real and you will never see it. Liverpool is the one that is not painted at all: a pine frame carrying a genuine oak veneer, in a natural oak tone or black. It is the only range here where the timber is the finish rather than something underneath it, which is also why it is the one that does not disappear into a white room. The Shortlist, One Paragraph Each Buy Bristol if the room is small and painted furniture suits it. Narrowest bed, lowest of the painted tallboys, roomiest drawers of the four white ranges, and an oak top where you actually put things. Buy London or Manchester if you want a bed that looks like a proper piece of furniture and you need storage in it. They are close enough that the honest tiebreakers are price and small drawer differences. Manchester sits slightly cheaper across most pieces. Buy Newcastle if you want the curves and the upholstered headboard in a painted frame, and the room has the height and light to carry them. Go in knowing the drawers are the shallowest of the five. Buy Liverpool if you want visible timber rather than paint, the largest drawers of any range here, and a fabric headboard without the Provincial styling. It is the widest bed at 171cm and the lowest tallboy at 100cm, so it wants width more than it wants height. [products-of-collection collection="bedroom" heading="All Cedora Bedroom Furniture" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-bed4-2"] Frequently Asked Questions Which Cedora bedroom range has the largest drawers? Liverpool. Its chest drawers are 63.1cm wide, 36.9cm deep and 24.6cm high inside, and its bedside drawers 22.5cm high. Bristol leads the four painted ranges at 20.3cm, and Newcastle has the smallest at 16cm, all in chests of identical external size. Which Cedora bed frames come with storage drawers? Only London and Manchester. Both offer double, queen and king with or without two drawers built into the footboard. Bristol, Newcastle and Liverpool are sold as plain frames. Which Cedora bedroom beds have an upholstered headboard? Newcastle and Liverpool. Newcastle sets a fabric panel inside a curved painted surround at 123.5cm. Liverpool sets one inside a bare timber frame at 125cm and repeats it on the footboard. London and Manchester are panelled timber, Bristol is slatted. Which range suits a small bedroom? Bristol. Its queen frame is 162.4cm wide against 169cm for London and Manchester and 171cm for Liverpool, and its tallboy is 110cm. Liverpool's tallboy is lower again at 100cm, so in a room where height is the problem rather than width, that is the one to look at. Are all five ranges the same material? No. London and Manchester are a solid pine structure, painted. Bristol is a solid oak top on a painted pine carcass. Newcastle is pine and acacia, painted. Liverpool is a pine frame with an oak veneer and is the only one not painted at all. Related Posts Six Centimetres Narrower: the Bristol Collection in a Small Bedroom Two Cedora Beds Have a Fabric Headboard. Only Newcastle Paints the Frame. Fifteen Drawers in One Bedroom: How the Manchester Collection Adds Up Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.
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