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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Byron Inspired by the ease of Australian coastal living. There is a particular feeling to life near the Australian coast. Doors stay open a little longer. Lunch stretches into the afternoon. Natural light moves through the home. Friends arrive, another chair is pulled up and nobody is in much of a hurry to leave. It’s relaxed without being careless. Beautiful without trying too hard. That feeling sits at the heart of the Byron Collection. A Contemporary Take on Coastal Living Coastal style has evolved. Today, it is less about obvious references to the sea and more about how a space makes us feel. Light. Warm. Natural. Relaxed. Byron takes this more contemporary approach, pairing the warmth and individual character of acacia timber with clean, confident proportions. The result is distinctly Coastal Contemporary - furniture that feels connected to Australian living without relying on coastal clichés. Letting Timber Lead One of Byron’s defining qualities is its natural warmth. Acacia timber brings grain, tonal variation and organic character to each piece, giving the collection depth without the need for excessive decoration. Look closely and you’ll notice the details that make timber so compelling. Subtle changes in tone. Natural grain. Individual markings. Characteristics that allow each piece to have a presence of its own. Rather than competing with the room, Byron gives you a warm foundation to build around. Byron Acacia Dining Table 160cm Made for Gathering The dining table is naturally at the centre of the Byron story. Available in 190cm and 240cm, the Byron Acacia Dining Table is designed for different ways of gathering. The 190cm table feels at home with everyday family dining - breakfast, weeknight dinners and slower Sunday lunches. The 240cm table gives larger spaces and bigger occasions somewhere to happen. More friends. More family. More food in the middle of the table. And probably one more chair than originally planned. Paired with dining chairs or a bench, the setting can become as relaxed or considered as the occasion calls for. Beyond the Dining Table A home feels most cohesive when pieces speak to one another without everything feeling overly matched. That is why Byron extends beyond the table. Pieces such as the Byron Acacia 3 Drawer Console Table carry the same natural warmth into living and transitional spaces, allowing the character of the collection to move throughout the home. Style it simply with ceramics and greenery. Place artwork above it. Or allow everyday life to take over. The collection is designed to work either way. How to Style Byron Keep it natural. Soft whites, warm neutrals and sandy tones complement the warmth of acacia timber. Introduce linen and woven textures for softness. Use ceramic, stone and organic forms for contrast. Bring in greenery rather than overt coastal decoration. And leave a little space. Byron doesn’t need much around it to feel complete. The timber should remain part of the story. Byron Acacia 3 Drawer Console Table The Byron Feeling Byron isn’t about recreating a beach house. It’s about capturing something more subtle. The ease. The warmth. The openness. The feeling of a home where people can arrive, settle in and stay awhile. A collection made for long lunches, everyday dinners and everything that happens in between. Byron by Cedora Coastal Contemporary, inspired by the way Australians live. Relaxed by nature. Designed for home. Related Posts Byron or Oxford? Same Timber, Same Build, Two Different Styles The Beauty of Natural Timber Where Life Gathers: The Table Australians Keep Coming Back To Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.
Beautiful furniture, made for real life. A beautiful home isn’t one that always looks perfectly styled. It’s one that feels lived in. There’s a coffee cup left on the dining table after the morning rush. A book waiting beside the bed. School bags dropped by the door. Toys finding their way onto the sideboard. And around it all, furniture quietly becomes part of everyday life. At Cedora, we believe good design should make room for these moments. Not just the ones we photograph. The ones we live. Mornings Are Rarely Picture Perfect The day starts. Coffee is poured. Breakfast lands on the table. Someone is looking for their keys while someone else is already running late. For a few minutes, the dining table becomes the centre of everything. The Richmond Dining Table, with its clean Modern Scandinavian character, creates a calm foundation for busy everyday living. Simple, warm and easy to style, it doesn’t need a perfectly set table to look at home. Sometimes a coffee cup, a bowl of fruit and the morning light are enough. Richmond Pine Dining Table 190cm - Natural Dinner for Six. And Sometimes Seven. Some nights, everyone makes it home for dinner. Other nights, a friend stays over. Someone pulls up another chair. Plates are passed around and conversations continue after the food is gone. The Byron Acacia Dining Table, available in 190cm and 240cm, gives these moments room to happen. Its warm timber character and relaxed Coastal Contemporary style feel particularly at home in Australian dining spaces - equally suited to an ordinary Wednesday dinner or a long Sunday lunch with family and friends. Because a dining table shouldn’t only look beautiful when nobody is using it. It should feel even better when everyone is. Byron Acacia Dining Table 240cm The Sideboard That Holds a Little Bit of Everything Keys. Serving pieces. A favourite vase. The mail you’ll deal with later. And, occasionally, the toys that need somewhere to disappear before guests arrive. The Oxford Sideboard brings Modern Coastal / Hamptons character to the room while giving everyday life somewhere to go. Style the surface beautifully when you want to. Let real life take over when you don’t. Good storage should make both possible. Oxford Acacia 4 Door 1 Drawer Sideboard The Quietest Part of the Day Then the house finally becomes still. A lamp is switched on. A phone is put down. A book waits on the bedside table, perhaps exactly where it was left the night before. The Liverpool Bedroom Collection brings a softer Contemporary Scandinavian feeling to these quieter moments. The Liverpool Bed Frame becomes the foundation of the room, while matching bedside and storage pieces keep the things you reach for every day close at hand. It doesn’t need much. Soft bedding. Warm light. A book beside the bed. A room that feels like somewhere you want to come back to at the end of the day. Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Natural Sunday Looks a Little Different There’s no alarm. Breakfast happens later. The dining table is filled slowly with coffee, food and familiar faces. Someone stays for lunch. Lunch becomes afternoon. Nobody is in much of a hurry to leave. These are the days when home feels full. And perhaps this is when furniture matters most - not because we notice it, but because we don’t have to think about it. The table simply has room. The sideboard holds what we need. The chairs are pulled closer. And the homework around the people inside it. Made for Real Homes We often see furniture in perfectly styled rooms. But that isn’t where it spends most of its life. It lives through morning rushes and quiet evenings. Family dinners and takeaway nights. Sunday lunches and Christmas gatherings. Books left open. Toys left out. Unexpected guests and one more chair pulled up to the table. Because beautiful furniture shouldn’t ask you to live carefully around it. It should become part of the way you live. Part of the mornings. Part of the mess. Part of the celebrations. Part of home. Designed for the Way We Live Beautiful furniture, made for real life. Discover furniture for dining, living and bedroom spaces across the Cedora Collections. Related Posts A Home Made for Living The 21cm That Decides Which Sideboard Works in Your Dining Room Where Life Gathers: The Table Australians Keep Coming Back To 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.
Browse the dining tables and you will hit something that looks like a mistake. The same 190cm table appears in the six seater collection and again in the eight seater one. Nobody has made an error. It is the honest answer to a question that does not have a single number. How many people a table seats depends on whether you count the ends, how wide the chairs are, and whether you mean Tuesday night or Christmas lunch. Here is the arithmetic, so you can work out which size your room actually wants. Key Takeaways Three chairs fit along a 190cm side. Six down the sides, eight if you use the ends. Cedora chairs run 46.8cm to 54cm wide, which is what sets the count. 240cm takes four a side, so eight stays comfortable rather than tight. Stepping from 190cm to 240cm costs your room half a metre of length. Table depth does not change the seat count, but it decides whether the food fits. Why One Table Appears in Both Lists Start with the chairs, because they are what actually decide it. Cedora dining chairs range from 46.8cm wide on the Oxford Acacia Dining Chair Set of 2 to 54cm on the Liverpool Pine Dining Chair Set of 2 - Natural, with Richmond at 51cm and Byron at 47.6cm in between. Three of those along a 190cm side takes between 140cm and 162cm. That leaves comfortable air at both ends and it is the arrangement every 190cm table is drawn around. Three a side, six people, nobody touching elbows. Then there are the two short ends. Every Cedora table is at least 80cm deep, which is enough for a place setting, so pulling a chair up at each end is a real option rather than a theoretical one. Six becomes eight, and that is why the same table honestly belongs in both collections. [products-of-collection collection="6-seater-dining-tables" heading="Tables That Seat Six" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-seats-1"] Six Comfortably, Eight at a Squeeze The distinction that matters is not whether eight people fit. It is how long they want to stay. On a 190cm table with the ends in use, the two people at the ends are sitting where the table is narrowest and everyone is closer than they would choose. For a two hour dinner that is fine, and it is exactly what the ends are for. For a long lunch that runs into the afternoon, or a weekly arrangement where eight people eat there every night, it wears thin. That is the honest line between the two collections: 190cm seats six as a habit and eight as an event. Work out which one you are. Count the people who eat at the table on an ordinary Tuesday. If that number is four to six and eight happens a handful of times a year, the 190cm table is the right buy and the ends will cover you. If eight is the routine, keep reading. Table length Chairs per side Sides only With both ends 160cm Two Four Six at a squeeze 190cm Three Six Eight 240cm Four Eight Ten at a squeeze What 240cm Actually Buys A 240cm side takes four chairs with room between them, even at the widest 54cm. That is eight seats down the sides alone, with the ends left free for serving or for the two extra people who arrive at Christmas. It also changes the middle of the table. The 240cm tables run deeper as well as longer: the Richmond Pine Dining Table 240cm - Natural is 100cm deep and the Liverpool Pine Dining Table 240cm is 110cm. At that depth you can run platters and a jug down the centre and still leave every place setting its own space, which a 90cm table cannot do once eight plates are on it. The cost is floor. Fifty centimetres more table means fifty centimetres less room, and it comes out of the length rather than the width. In a dining area that is generous across but short lengthways, the 240cm table is the wrong answer no matter how many people you host. Byron Acacia Dining Table 240cm [products-of-collection collection="8-seater-dining-tables" heading="Tables That Seat Eight" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-seats-2"] Depth Decides Whether the Meal Fits Depth is the dimension nobody compares and the one that shows up at every meal. Cedora tables run from 80cm on the Byron Acacia Dining Table 160cm up to 110cm on the largest Liverpool. At 80cm, two place settings facing each other take most of the width and the centre strip is narrow. That suits a compact table where the food is plated in the kitchen and carried out. At 90cm there is a usable centre line for a jug and a board. At 100cm and above you can serve at the table properly, which is the difference between passing plates and moving things to make room. None of that changes how many chairs fit. It changes whether an eight seat dinner feels organised or crowded, and if you host the way most Australian households host, with everything on the table at once, it deserves more weight than it usually gets. Measure the Room, Then Choose The rule is simple and almost nobody applies it. Measure the room in the direction the table will run, subtract the table length, and split what is left between the two ends. That number has to cover a chair pulled out and a person walking behind it. Do the same across the short direction. The table depth comes off the room width, and it is the dimension that gets tight first in an open-plan space where the dining area shares a floor with a lounge. If the numbers say 190cm and your heart says 240cm, the sensible compromise is a 190cm table plus the two end chairs, not a larger table in a room that cannot carry it. A table you turn sideways to walk past will annoy you every single day, and the eight seat dinner it was bought for happens four times a year. Richmond Pine Dining Table 240cm - Natural Frequently Asked Questions Can a 190cm table seat eight? Yes, by using the ends. Three chairs fit comfortably along each 190cm side, which gives six, and a chair at each end takes it to eight. Eight is a squeeze for a long dinner and perfectly fine for a couple of hours. How many chairs fit along a 190cm side? Three. Cedora dining chairs run from 46.8cm to 54cm wide, so three take between 140cm and 162cm of a 190cm side. Four would need at least 187cm and leave no gap at all. What size table do I need for eight people every day? 240cm. Four chairs fit along each side with room between them, or three a side plus the two ends with space to spare. That is eight seats that stay comfortable through a long meal. How much room does a dining table need around it? Enough for a chair to pull out and a person to walk behind it. Measure the room, subtract the table, and check what is left on each side before you choose the larger size. Stepping up from 190cm to 240cm costs you half a metre of room length. Does table depth affect how many people fit? Not the seat count, but it changes whether the meal fits. Cedora tables run 80cm to 110cm deep. At 100cm or more you can run serving dishes down the centre and still leave every place setting its own space. Related Posts How Many Chairs for a Dining Table? Australian Size Guide How to Choose a Dining Table: The Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide Do Dining Sets Actually Save You Money? Here Is How to Check 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.
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.
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