There are four dining benches in the entire Cedora catalogue, and they all belong to one range. That is not an oversight. A bench is a piece of furniture that only works when it is built to the table it sits at, and once you look at the numbers you can see exactly how tightly the two are tied together. The Richmond bench comes in 158cm and 208cm. The Richmond table comes in 190cm and 240cm. Line those up and the bench is 32cm shorter than its table, both times, which is the sort of coincidence that is never a coincidence. Key Takeaways Two lengths only: 158cm for the 190cm table, 208cm for the 240cm table. Every bench is 40cm deep and 46cm high, in natural or black. Forty centimetres deep against 62cm for a chair, so the bench vanishes when pushed in. A 76cm table over a 46cm seat leaves 30cm of knee room, which is the comfortable range. Seating is three on the short bench and four on the long one, at about 52cm each. Always 32cm Shorter Than the Table The Richmond Pine Dining Bench 158cm - Natural is built for the 190cm table and the Richmond Pine Dining Bench 208cm - Natural for the 240cm. In both cases the bench is 32cm shorter, which puts 16cm of clearance at each end. That clearance is the whole reason the pairing works. Both the table and the bench stand on open frame legs set in from the corners, so a bench sized to match slides between the table legs rather than colliding with them. Buy a bench from somewhere else at the same length as your table and it will stop 10cm short of pushed in, forever, and you will notice it every time you walk past. It also means the sizing decision is already made for you. If the table is 190cm, the bench is 158cm. There is no judgement call, no measuring the underside of the apron, and no chance of getting it wrong. Both lengths also come in black, which matches the black tables in the same range. Forty Centimetres Deep Is Why It Disappears Here is the number that actually changes a room. The bench is 40cm deep. A Richmond dining chair is 62cm deep. The 240cm table is 100cm across, so the top overhangs 50cm from the centre line on each side, which means a pushed in bench sits completely underneath it and a pushed in chair never can. In a dining room that has enough space, nobody cares. In the room most Australians actually eat in, which is the end of an open plan living area with a walkway on one side, it decides whether the space works. Put the bench on the traffic side and you get back 22cm of floor compared with chairs, every hour of the day that nobody is eating. There is a scenario every family recognises. Someone is carrying a full plate from the kitchen, someone else is coming the other way with the salad, and the gap between the table and the couch is the width of one chair back. Replace that row of chairs with a bench, push it in, and the pinch point stops existing. [products-of-collection collection="richmond" heading="Shop the Richmond Collection" limit="12" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-bench-1"] Thirty Centimetres of Knee Room Every Cedora dining table is 76cm high and the bench seat is 46cm, which leaves exactly 30cm between the two. That is the top of the comfortable range: below about 25cm your thighs press against the underside of the table, and above about 32cm you are sitting low enough that eating feels like a stretch. What the bench does not have is a back, and that is worth being honest about. For a weeknight dinner that lasts twenty minutes, nobody misses it. For a long lunch that runs into the afternoon, the people on the bench start leaning on the table and the people in the chairs do not, and you will hear about it. Which is why the sets that include one pair the two. The 190cm table with four chairs and a bench and the 240cm version with the longer bench both keep chairs on one side and a bench on the other. Guests get the backrest, the household gets the bench, and everybody is quietly happy with the arrangement. The Seat Count Is Optimistic, and That Is Fine The 158cm bench is listed as seating up to three and the 208cm up to four. Divide it out and that is about 52cm per person, which is the width the industry uses and which is genuinely fine for most people most of the time. It is also the reason a bench is the best seat in the house for children. Three kids on a bench take up less space than three kids on chairs, they cannot tip backwards on two legs, and there is no argument about whose chair is whose. The same 52cm that feels tight for four adults at a long dinner is generous for a nine year old and a seven year old with room to spare. The real cost of a bench is not width, it is access. Whoever sits in the middle has to wait for the person on the end to stand up, and if the bench is against a wall everybody shuffles. Put the bench on the open side of the table, keep the Richmond Pine Dining Chair Set of 2 - Natural for the people who get up during dinner, and that problem disappears. The Bench Adds a Seat the Chairs Cannot The Richmond Pine Dining Table 190cm - Natural is rated for six people when it is surrounded by chairs. Swap one side for the 158cm bench and the same table is rated for seven, because a bench does not have to divide its length into whole chairs. Wherever there is 50cm of clear seat, one more person fits. That is the trick a bench pulls at Christmas. Nobody carries a spare dining chair in from the study when the table is full, because there is nowhere to put it, but a bench absorbs the extra cousin without anyone rearranging the room. On the 240cm table the same logic applies at a larger scale, and the long bench takes four adults or five children depending on who turns up. Price per seat runs the same direction. Bought on its own, a bench works out at a little over half the cost of the equivalent number of dining chairs, so a table with a bench on one side is consistently the cheaper way to seat the same number of people. The 208cm bench in black sits under the black tables on exactly the same maths. Where the Bench Goes When It Is Not at the Table A dining chair in a bedroom looks like a dining chair that got lost. A bench does not, and this is the quiet argument for buying one. At 40cm deep and 46cm high it is the same proportion as a purpose built end of bed bench, so it can sit at the foot of a queen and hold folded towels without looking like it wandered in from another room. The black one earns its keep in an entry. A bench by the front door is where shoes come off, where the bag lands, and where a visitor sits to unlace boots, and at 208cm it does that along a whole wall without cutting into the passage the way a hall chair does. In a house with kids and a school run, it is the most used piece of furniture you will buy. That flexibility is the honest reason to take the bench over the extra pair of chairs. Two more chairs are two more chairs. A bench is dining seating that can become bedroom furniture in ten years when the household changes, and it costs meaningfully less per seat than the chairs it replaces. The full Richmond range is built so it can move rooms without looking out of place. Frequently Asked Questions What size dining bench do I need? One about 30cm shorter than your table. Cedora makes a 158cm bench for the 190cm table and a 208cm bench for the 240cm table, a gap of exactly 32cm in both cases, which keeps the ends of the bench clear of the table legs so it can push all the way in. How high should a dining bench be? Around 45cm to 47cm for a standard 76cm table. These benches are 46cm, which leaves 30cm between the seat and the underside of the table top. Less than about 25cm and adults sit with their thighs against the table. How many people fit on a dining bench? Three on the 158cm and four on the 208cm, which works out to roughly 52cm of bench per person. That is comfortable for children and for a quick weeknight dinner, and tight for four adults settling in for three hours. Does a dining bench save space? Yes, and the number is 22cm. The bench is 40cm deep against 62cm for a dining chair, so pushed in it sits entirely under the table top while a chair still projects. In a narrow room that is the difference between squeezing past and walking past. Can a dining bench be used somewhere other than the dining room? Easily, and plenty are. At 40cm deep and 46cm high it works at the foot of a bed for folded linen, along an entry wall as a place to put shoes on, or under a window. It is one of the few dining pieces that still makes sense in another room. 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Most furniture ranges are put together bedroom first, then stretched outward until something fits the dining room. Richmond runs the other way. Of the twenty seven pieces in the range, twelve are dining tables or complete settings and four are benches, the only dining benches Cedora makes. This is a look at how the range works room by room, what the timber actually is, and which table size suits which household. Key Takeaways Two table sizes: 190cm seats six, 240cm seats eight. The legs are solid oak, the structure behind them is pine. Richmond is the only Cedora range with dining benches, in 158cm and 208cm. Benches sit 300mm below the tabletop, so they tuck fully underneath. Every piece comes in Natural or Black except the end table, which is Natural only. Built Around the Table, Not Around a Look The construction stays the same the whole way through the range. The legs are solid oak, the structure behind them is pine, and every piece stands on a closed timber loop at each end instead of four separate posts. That one detail is what makes the range readable from across a room. The same shape repeats at table height, at bench height and again at coffee table height, so two pieces bought months apart still look like they arrived together. Know what that focus means before you start. Richmond will not furnish a bedroom. What it does cover is the dining room and the living areas beside it, which is the right trade if that part of the house is the part working hardest. The Richmond range extends outward from the table rather than trying to reach every room. It also means the range is easy to buy in stages. A household that starts with the table and two pairs of chairs can add the bench the following winter and the sideboard the year after, and nothing will look like an afterthought, because the leg frame and the timber do not change between pieces. That matters more than it sounds when a dining room is furnished on the budget of a family rather than the budget of a showroom. Two Table Sizes, Two Kinds of Household There are two tables and the gap between them is deliberate. The Richmond Pine Dining Table 190cm measures W1,900 x D900 x H760 (mm) and seats six, which suits a family of four with room for grandparents on a Sunday. The Richmond Pine Dining Table 240cm measures W2,400 x D1,000 x H760 (mm) and seats eight, the size you buy when the house has become the one everybody drives to. The extra 100mm of depth on the larger table matters more than the length does. At 1,000mm across you can run serving dishes down the centre and still leave every place setting its own space. Before you choose, measure the floor rather than the table, and leave enough clearance behind the chairs for someone to walk past while another person is seated. Four people who host twice a year should take the smaller table and keep the floor space. Anyone regularly setting eight places will tire of dragging in extra chairs, and the larger table pays for itself in the first summer of visitors. Richmond Pine Dining Table 190cm - Natural The Bench, and Why It Disappears The bench is the piece no other Cedora range has. It comes in two lengths matched to the two tables: the Richmond Pine Dining Bench 158cm at W1,580 x D400 x H460 (mm) seats up to three, and the Richmond Pine Dining Bench 208cm at W2,080 x D400 x H460 (mm) seats up to four. Both sit 300mm below the tabletop, which means they slide back under the table completely when lunch is finished. That is what changes a small dining room. On an ordinary Saturday the bench is pushed in and the floor reads as open again, with no chair backs breaking the sightline to the kitchen. Then somebody arrives without warning at midday, three children shuffle along and a fourth person fits on the end, which four separate chairs cannot do. The trade off is honest: a bench has no back, so long sittings get tiring, and most households run a bench down one side and chairs on the other. It also has a second life outside the dining room. At 400mm deep it sits along a hallway wall or under a window without narrowing the path past it, which makes it somewhere to put shoes on, or a surface for folded washing waiting to be carried through. Richmond Pine Dining Bench 208cm - Natural [products-of-collection collection="richmond" heading="Shop the Richmond Collection" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-richmond-1"] Chairs, or the Whole Setting in One Order Chairs are sold in pairs as the Richmond Pine Dining Chair Set of 2, measuring W510 x D620 x H880 (mm) each, with an upholstered seat and back on timber legs. Buying in twos is more useful than it sounds, because a dining room is rarely finished in one purchase. Four chairs cover most homes, and another pair goes in later when the household grows. If you would rather not assemble the room piece by piece, four settings are already matched and priced together. The 190cm table comes with six chairs, or with four chairs and the 158cm bench. The 240cm table comes with eight chairs, or with four chairs and the 208cm bench. Ordering the setting removes the two things that go wrong when pieces are bought separately: finishes that do not quite agree, and half the room arriving three weeks after the rest. One practical note. At 880mm to the top of the back, the chairs stand well above the 760mm table, so from the doorway you see chair backs before you see the table, and six of them in a small room is a lot of upright timber. That is why the bench settings suit narrow spaces, since half the seating drops out of the sightline. Richmond Pine Dining Table 190cm with 4 chairs & Bench 158cm - Natural [products-of-collection collection="dining-sets" heading="Dining Tables and Chairs Sold Together" limit="4" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-richmond-2"] What Sits Around the Table The storage pieces are built to the same width so the room lines up. The Richmond Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard is W1,600 x D450 x H650 (mm) and the Richmond Pine 2 Drawer TV Unit shares that 1,600mm width and 450mm depth at a lower H550 (mm). Where the dining and living areas share a wall, that repetition is what stops the room looking like two separate purchases pushed together. The sideboard is the piece that changes how the dining room runs. Three drawers take the cutlery, placemats and candles that otherwise live in the kitchen, and the cupboards take the serving dishes that come out four times a year. Setting the table stops being a trip back and forth, and the top becomes where the food waits while everyone sits down. The smaller pieces cover the gaps. The Richmond Pine 2 Drawer Console Table is W1,200 x D380x H825 (mm), shallow enough for a hallway people still walk down and tall enough to sit behind a sofa rather than beside it. The Richmond Pine Coffee Table at W1,200 x D600 x H450 (mm) carries the same closed leg frame as the dining table, and the Richmond Pine End Table, W550 x D500 x H550 (mm), is the one piece made in Natural only. Richmond Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard - Natural What the Timber Is, and Which Finish to Take It is worth being exact about the material, because oak is a word that gets used loosely. In Richmond the oak is in the legs, solid, where the load sits. The structure behind it is pine. This is not a solid oak slab and it is not priced like one, and knowing that before you buy beats discovering it after delivery. What the combination gives you is a table that takes daily use on the parts that get knocked, at a price a family can justify. The finish does more to a room than the size does. Natural keeps a small or south-facing space feeling open, since the timber carries light rather than absorbing it. Black draws the outline of the piece and gives a bright room something to settle on, which works well against pale floorboards. Because the shapes are identical across both, a black 240cm table with a natural sideboard reads as a decision, not an accident. The two finishes also age differently. Pine is softer than oak, so surfaces pick up the marks of a household that uses them, and black shows dust more readily than natural while hiding small dents better. If you want a table that still looks untouched in five years, that is a different purchase. Placemats under hot dishes and a dry cloth for spills covers the rest. Richmond Pine Dining Table 240cm - Black Frequently Asked Questions How many people does a Richmond dining table seat? The 190cm table seats six and the 240cm table seats eight. Each Richmond chair is 510mm wide, so the 190cm table takes two chairs down each long side with one at either end, and the 240cm table takes three a side on the same principle. Does the Richmond bench fit under the table? Yes. Both benches are 460mm high against a 760mm tabletop, so there is 300mm of clearance and the bench slides fully underneath when it is not in use. That is what gives a small dining room its floor space back between meals. Is Richmond furniture solid oak? No, and it is worth being clear about it. The legs are solid oak, where the load sits, and the structure behind them is pine. Richmond is not a solid oak slab and it is not priced like one. What sizes do the Richmond dining benches come in? Two. The 158cm bench measures W1,580 x D400 x H460 (mm) and seats up to three, and the 208cm bench measures W2,080 x D400 x H460 (mm) and seats up to four. Each is matched to one of the two table lengths. Can I buy the Richmond table and chairs together? Yes. Four settings are already matched and priced together: the 190cm table with six chairs, the 190cm table with four chairs and the 158cm bench, the 240cm table with eight chairs, and the 240cm table with four chairs and the 208cm bench. Related Posts Dining Bench vs Chairs: How to Choose the Best Seating How Many Chairs for a Dining Table? Australian Size Guide Liverpool Collection Room by Room: Pine and Oak Veneer Furniture Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.
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.
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