Count the contemporary range and you get 26 products. Count the actual designs and you get 13, because every single one is offered in exactly two finishes and nothing else. No piece exists in only one colour, and no piece exists in three. That sounds like a small detail and it changes how you shop. In most catalogues the finish is a per item decision, which is why so many living rooms end up with three timber tones. Here the decision happens once, and then the whole open plan level follows it. Key Takeaways Twenty six products, thirteen designs, each offered in natural and black. Everything that goes against a wall comes in two sizes: 180 or 130, 180 or 140, 190 or 240. Sideboards and TV units are both 46cm deep, so they line up on the same wall. The range covers dining and living completely and does not touch the bedroom. The TV unit is 56cm high and the sideboard 76cm, a deliberate 20cm gap. Twenty Six Products, Thirteen Designs The list is short enough to hold in your head: two dining tables, three dining sets, one chair, two sideboards, two TV units, one console, one coffee table and one end table. Thirteen things. Multiply by natural and black and you have the whole range. Every piece is built the same way, a solid pine frame with an oak veneer, with softly rounded corners and either a recessed finger pull or a slim brass finished bar. That consistency is the reason the range works as a set rather than a shelf of options, and it is also why two pieces bought a year apart still look related. What it means practically is that the hard decision is the finish, not the pieces. Pick natural or black first, and every subsequent purchase is just a question of what the room still needs. Most people do it the other way around, choosing pieces one at a time, and that is how a living room ends up with a black TV unit and a natural coffee table looking like an accident. Two Sizes of Everything That Goes Against a Wall Three categories in the range come in a long version and a short version, and in each case the difference is width alone. The Liverpool Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard - Natural is 180cm and the Liverpool Pine 2 Door 2 Drawer Sideboard - Black is 130cm, both 46cm deep and 76cm high. The TV units work the same way. The Liverpool Pine 2 Door 1 Drawer TV Unit 180cm - Natural runs 180cm with a drawer between two cupboards, and the Liverpool Pine 2 Door TV Unit 140cm - Black drops to 140cm and loses the drawer. Same 46cm depth, same 56cm height, 40cm less wall. Dining follows the pattern with the Liverpool Pine Dining Table 190cm - Natural and the 240cm version, the latter running 110cm across the top, which is wider than any other table in the catalogue. In a room where the table is the only thing between the kitchen and the couch, that extra width is what stops the middle of the table becoming unreachable storage. Liverpool Pine 2 Door 1 Drawer TV Unit 180cm - Natural [products-of-collection collection="contemporary-furniture" heading="Shop the Contemporary Range" limit="12" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-contemporary-1"] Forty Six Centimetres Is the Number That Lines It Up Both the sideboards and the TV units are 46cm deep. In an open plan room where one runs along the dining end and the other along the living end, often on the same continuous wall, that shared number is what makes the two read as one built in run rather than two separate purchases pushed together. The height difference between them is deliberate too. A sideboard at 76cm is a serving surface, level with the dining table. A TV unit at 56cm is 20cm lower, because a television sitting on top of a 76cm cabinet ends up above comfortable eye level for anyone on a sofa. Both numbers are doing a job. Plan the walkway from 46cm, not from the width. Here is the test your room will actually be put through: it is a Saturday, six people are over, someone is carrying two plates from the kitchen and someone else is reversing out of a dining chair at the same moment. Forty six centimetres off the wall plus a pulled out chair is most of two metres, and if the room cannot give you that, the two of you do the shuffle every single time. That is the measurement that decides whether an open plan level feels generous or permanently crowded, and it is the one nobody checks before ordering. Width you can see in a photo. Depth you only discover the first time you host. Liverpool Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard - Black The Living Half: Coffee, Console and End Table Three pieces cover the soft end of the room. The Liverpool Pine Coffee Table - Natural is 130 x 70 x 45cm, which is a large coffee table by Australian standards and sized for a three seater rather than a two. At 45cm high it sits level with most sofa seats, so nobody has to reach down for a cup. The Liverpool Pine Console Table - Natural is 150 x 38 x 76cm, tall enough to use standing and narrow enough for a hallway. It is the one piece in the range that regularly leaves the open plan area entirely and ends up by the front door, and it is the same 76cm height as the sideboard and the dining table. The Liverpool Pine End Table - Black is 55 x 55 x 58cm and does the job the coffee table cannot: it sits at the arm of a chair for the person who is not near the middle of the room. In a long living space with a sofa at one end and an armchair at the other, one coffee table is never enough. Liverpool Pine Coffee Table - Natural What the Range Deliberately Does Not Do There is no bedroom in this collection. No bed frame, no bedside table, no chest, no tallboy, no mirror. That is not an oversight: those pieces exist, they are simply catalogued under a different style, so a house furnished entirely from this range would have a beautifully coordinated living level and nothing to sleep on. There is also no dining bench, which matters if you have a narrow dining area. Benches exist in the catalogue but only in one other range, so a bench and this table would be a mix rather than a match. Worth knowing before you commit to the table. What is here instead is depth of choice inside a narrow field. Two table sizes, three set configurations including the 240cm table with eight chairs, two sideboards, two TV units. For an apartment or a townhouse where the whole living level is one room, that is more useful than a range that covers every room shallowly. Liverpool Pine Console Table - Black Choosing the Finish Before the Pieces Because every design comes in both, this is the only decision that cannot be reversed one piece at a time. Natural is the safer answer in a small or dark room: pale timber against a pale wall reads as less furniture, and in an apartment where the whole level is visible from the front door, less furniture is the goal. Black works, but it works best as an anchor rather than a scheme. One black sideboard along a light wall gives a room a centre of gravity. A black sideboard, black TV unit, black coffee table and black table in the same open space is a lot of dark timber in a country with this much light coming through the windows. The mixed approach is legitimate and it is what most people land on: the large wall pieces in natural to keep the volume down, one black piece where you want the eye to stop. Both finishes are the same piece underneath, so nothing about the mix is a compromise on build. The full contemporary range shows both side by side, which is the fastest way to see which one your room wants. Frequently Asked Questions How many pieces are in the contemporary range? Twenty six products, which is thirteen designs offered in two finishes each. There is no piece in the range that exists in only one colour, so the finish decision applies to the whole room rather than piece by piece. Can one range furnish a whole open plan living and dining area? This one can. It covers the dining table, chairs, sideboard, TV unit, coffee table, console and end table, which is every surface an open plan level needs. What it does not cover is the bedroom, which comes from a different part of the catalogue. What size sideboard and TV unit come in the range? Two of each. The sideboards are 180cm and 130cm wide, both 46cm deep and 76cm high. The TV units are 180cm and 140cm wide, both 46cm deep and 56cm high. Choosing between them is a wall length decision, not a storage one. How deep is contemporary furniture against the wall? Forty six centimetres for the sideboards and TV units, which is the number to plan the walkway around. The console is much shallower at 38cm, and the coffee table is 70cm across because it sits in open floor rather than against anything. Is black or natural better for a small living room? Natural, on balance, because a pale timber piece against a pale wall reads as less bulk in a room where every piece is visible at once. Black works better as a single anchor: one black sideboard in an otherwise light room rather than a whole level of it. Related Posts Same Table, Two Finishes: What Black Actually Does to an Australian Room The 21cm That Decides Which Sideboard Works in Your Dining Room Why a Console Table Is 76cm and a Side Table Is 55cm Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.
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Sitting up in bed is not a design detail, it is most of what people do in a bedroom that is not sleeping. Reading, a laptop on a Sunday morning, waiting out a headache. A timber headboard is a wall behind your shoulders. A fabric one is something you can lean on for an hour without a pillow doing all the work. Two Cedora ranges are built that way, not one. Newcastle sets a fabric panel inside a curved frame painted white; Liverpool sets one inside bare timber and carries it down to the footboard as well. This is the Newcastle guide, and it starts by being clear about which of the two you actually want. Key Takeaways One of two Cedora ranges with a fabric headboard, and the only one in a painted frame. 123.5cm tall on a bedhead just 6.8cm deep, the thinnest frame in the catalogue. Liverpool is the other upholstered range, slightly taller at 125cm and fabric at both ends. Three plain bed frames in double, queen and king. No drawer version. Drawers are the shallowest of any bedroom range, which is what the curves cost. The Headboard Is Fabric, and That Changes the Room On the Newcastle Acacia Queen Bed Frame the headboard is a linen-toned upholstered panel held inside a shaped timber surround, painted white, with the curve carried through to the footboard and down into the legs. It reaches 123.5cm from the floor on a frame only 6.8cm deep, which is the thinnest bedhead Cedora builds, so the height costs you almost nothing in floor area. What it buys is comfort you notice daily, not a feature you point at. Leaning back against fabric is simply better than leaning against a painted board, and the height means the panel supports your shoulders rather than stopping at the small of your back. In a room where the bed is also the reading chair, which describes most Australian bedrooms, that is the difference between using the bed and propping up three pillows every time. The honest cost is maintenance. Fabric near a north-facing window will fade over years in a way paint will not, and it collects dust that a damp cloth cannot simply lift off. If the bed sits in full afternoon sun with the curtains open, this is not the range for you. If it sits on an internal wall, the concern is theoretical. Newcastle or Liverpool: Choosing Between the Two Fabric Beds Since both ranges upholster, the decision is worth making properly rather than by accident. The Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Natural puts its soft woven fabric panel inside a bare timber frame and repeats it at the foot of the bed, so you get fabric at both ends and visible grain around it. Newcastle keeps fabric at the head only and answers it with a solid curved footboard in paint. The numbers are close enough to matter. Liverpool stands 125cm at the bedhead on an 8cm frame, Newcastle 123.5cm on 6.8cm. Where they separate properly is storage: the Liverpool bedside drawers are 22.5cm deep inside against 15.1cm in the Newcastle, and the Liverpool chest runs 24.6cm against 16cm, in cabinets of identical external size. So the honest split is style against capacity. Take Newcastle if you want the painted, curved, Provincial look and the room is where you display things rather than store them. Take Liverpool if the bedroom has to hold a household's clothing and you would rather the timber showed. Both are comfortable to lean on, which was the point of the fabric in the first place. Three Frames, and What the Curve Adds The range runs double at W149 x D208cm, queen at W164 x D219cm and king at W194 x D219cm, each 123.5cm tall. All three use a solid slat base, so a mattress goes straight on with no ensemble underneath. There is no version with built-in drawers. The shaped legs are the detail that decides whether this range works in your room. They splay slightly outward and curve, which is what makes the bed read as French Provincial rather than plain white. They also mean the widest point of the bed is not the mattress line but a few centimetres below it, so if you are planning to slot the frame between a wall and a robe door, measure at floor level rather than at the top. The footboard is solid and curved, not open and not upholstered. That gives the bed a defined end, which is worth having in a large room where an open-ended bed can look adrift, and worth thinking twice about in a small one where the same solidity closes the space in. [products-of-collection collection="newcastle" heading="Shop the Newcastle Collection" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-newcastle-1"] The Case Pieces, and the Tallest Bedside in the Catalogue The Newcastle Acacia 2 Drawer Bedside Table is W55 x D45 x H64.4cm. That extra four and a half centimetres over the standard 60cm sounds trivial and is not, because the Newcastle bed sits on shaped legs and reads slightly higher than a plinth-based frame. The bedside was drawn to match it. If you are pairing a Newcastle bedside with a different bed, check the mattress height first. The Newcastle Acacia 5 Drawer Tallboy is W100 x D45 x H114cm with five drawers, two narrow ones at 42.3cm across the top and three at 87.6cm below. The Newcastle Acacia 6 Drawer Chest is W140 x D45 x H85cm with six drawers at 62.35cm wide. Both carry the same curved fronts and shaped legs as the bed, and both sit on the same 45cm depth as every other Cedora case piece, so they line up on a wall with anything else in the catalogue. Between them, the choice is the usual one. The tallboy takes a metre of wall and goes up. The chest takes 140cm and gives back a usable surface at 85cm, which is where the lamp, the tray and the folded washing end up. In a Provincial room the chest also gives the mirror somewhere to live. The Drawers Are the Shallowest of Any Bedroom Range This is the part worth being blunt about, because nothing in a photograph tells you. Newcastle drawer interiors are 15.1cm high in the bedside, 16cm in the chest and 18.5cm in the tallboy. The equivalent Bristol pieces run 19.2cm, 20.3cm and 20.8cm, and the Liverpool bedside and chest run 22.5cm and 24.6cm, all in cabinets with identical external dimensions. The reason is the styling itself. Shaped drawer fronts, a curved carcass and legs that lift the whole piece off the floor all take their volume from the same place, and that place is the inside of the drawer. It is not a fault. It is the honest arithmetic of buying curves instead of corners. Whether it matters depends entirely on what you fold. Shirts, t-shirts and folded linen do not care about five centimetres. Bulky winter jumpers and doubled-over denim do, and if that is most of your wardrobe you will be happier with a squarer range. Buy Newcastle for the way it looks and sits, with your eyes open about capacity, and it will not disappoint you later. The Mirror, and What Makes This Provincial The Newcastle Acacia Mirror is 100 x 100cm and 5cm deep, with a shaped and moulded painted frame in place of a plain square one. It pairs with the chest, and if you want both in one purchase there is a Newcastle Acacia 6 Drawer Chest with Mirror. French Provincial as a look is not about any single feature, and it is certainly not about putting a fleur-de-lis on something. It is the combination of a curved silhouette, a painted finish that softens rather than reflects, shaped legs that lift furniture visually off the floor, and moulding that catches light along an edge. Newcastle carries all four across every piece, which is why the range reads as one room rather than a set of matching boxes. It suits an older Australian house better than a new one. High ceilings, picture rails, a bay window and carpet all flatter curves. A low-ceilinged room with square architraves and polished concrete will fight them, and in that room the Newcastle range looks like furniture that wandered in from a different building. Frequently Asked Questions Which Cedora beds have an upholstered headboard? Two ranges. Newcastle sets a fabric panel inside a curved frame painted white, and Liverpool sets one inside a bare timber frame in natural or black. London and Manchester use panelled timber headboards, and Bristol uses a slatted one. What is the difference between the Newcastle and Liverpool upholstered beds? Three things. Liverpool upholsters the footboard as well as the headboard, Newcastle only the headboard. Liverpool's frame is bare timber, Newcastle's is painted. Liverpool stands 125cm at the bedhead against Newcastle's 123.5cm. How tall is the Newcastle bed? 123.5cm from the floor to the top of the headboard, on a frame just 6.8cm deep. That is the thinnest bedhead in the catalogue, so the height costs almost nothing in floor space. Only the Liverpool bed is taller, at 125cm. What is the Newcastle range made from? A solid acacia headboard frame with a pine and acacia structure, painted white. The beds use a solid slat base, so no separate bed base is needed under the mattress. Why are the Newcastle drawers shallower than other ranges? The shaped fronts and curved legs take their volume from somewhere, and it is the inside of the drawer. The chest drawers are 16cm high against 20.3cm in the Bristol chest and 24.6cm in the Liverpool one, all three in cabinets of identical external size. 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No two pieces are exactly alike. There is something special about bringing natural timber into the home. From the individual grain patterns and subtle tonal variations to the knots and markings formed naturally over time, every piece of timber carries its own character. No two surfaces are ever the same - and that individuality is part of what makes timber furniture so enduring. At Cedora, we embrace these natural variations rather than hide them. They bring warmth, texture and a sense of authenticity to furniture designed for real, everyday Australian homes. Nature, in Every Detail Look closely at a timber surface and you’ll find details that cannot simply be replicated. The direction of the grain. A subtle shift from one tone to another. Natural knots and markings unique to that piece. These characteristics are not imperfections. They are part of the natural beauty of timber, giving every table, bed, sideboard or console its own individual finish. It means the piece that arrives in your home is uniquely yours. Designed Around Natural Character Across Cedora collections, timber takes on a different personality depending on the design surrounding it. Byron Acacia Dining Table 160cm Byron - Coastal Contemporary Warm acacia timber and clean, contemporary proportions give the Byron Collection its relaxed Australian coastal character. The natural variation of acacia becomes part of the design, bringing depth and warmth to dining and living spaces without making them feel overly formal. Featured pieces:Byron Acacia Dining Table 190cm Byron Acacia Dining Table 240cm Byron Acacia 3 Drawer Console Table Natural warmth, made for relaxed living. Liverpool Natural - Contemporary Scandinavian The Liverpool Bedroom Collection takes a softer, more understated approach to timber. Its natural finish, simple lines and Scandinavian-inspired proportions allow the warmth and texture of the material to become a defining part of the bedroom. From the bed frame to matching storage pieces, Liverpool creates a calm, cohesive space where natural character does the talking. Featured pieces:Liverpool Pine King Size Bed Frame – Natural Liverpool Pine Queen Size Bed Frame – Natural Liverpool Pine 6 Drawer Chest – Natural Liverpool Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy – Natural Liverpool Pine 2 Drawer Bedside Table – Natural Simple by design. Naturally individual. Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Natural Richmond - Modern Scandinavian Clean lines meet natural warmth in the Richmond Collection. With its modern Scandinavian influence, Richmond celebrates timber through restrained forms and an understated palette. Oak veneer brings natural grain and texture to the surface, complemented by timber construction to create furniture that feels warm, considered and easy to live with. From dining tables to sideboards and consoles, each piece brings a sense of natural character into contemporary Australian interiors. Featured pieces:Richmond Dining Table – Natural Richmond Sideboard – Natural Richmond Console Table – Natural Modern simplicity, grounded in nature. Made by Nature. Made for Your Home. Natural timber does not strive for perfect uniformity - and that is precisely its beauty. Variations in grain, knots, texture and tone mean your furniture may look slightly different from the piece photographed online or displayed in a showroom. Rather than taking away from the design, these natural characteristics give each piece its individuality. Furniture becomes more than something that simply fills a room. It brings texture. Warmth. Character. And a little piece of nature into the spaces where everyday life happens. Richmond Pine Dining Bench 208cm - Natural The Beauty of Natural Timber Unique nature. Designed for everyday living. Discover Cedora’s timber collections online at Cedora.com.au. Related Posts How to Fix Scratches on Solid Timber: Simple DIY Solutions Choosing the Right Timber Furniture for Timber Floors Thirty-One Acacia Pieces, and the Timber Only Shows on Twenty-Three Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.
Furniture for real homes, real moments and the way Australians live. At Cedora, we believe a beautiful home should be more than something to look at. It should be somewhere to live. A place for slow Sunday mornings and busy weekday breakfasts. For dinners that bring everyone back to the table. For friends who stay longer than planned. For quiet evenings, growing families and all the ordinary moments that eventually become the ones we remember most. That idea sits at the heart of Cedora. We create furniture not simply to fill a space, but to become part of the life that happens within it. Designed with a Point of View Every home has its own character. Manchester Pine King Bed Frame Some feel light and coastal. Others are warm and contemporary. Some find comfort in classic details, while others feel most at home surrounded by simplicity. That is why Cedora doesn’t believe in one single way to create a beautiful home. Our collections explore distinct design perspectives - from the Classic Hamptons character of London and Manchester to the Contemporary Scandinavian simplicity of Liverpool Bedroom, the relaxed Coastal Contemporary warmth of Byron and the clean Modern Scandinavian expression of Richmond. Different styles for different homes. Connected by the same belief in thoughtful, liveable design. Made to Work Beautifully Good furniture has to do more than look good. Richmond Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard - Black A dining table needs to make room for Tuesday night dinner - and the extra guests who arrive on Sunday. A sideboard might display your favourite objects today and hide away the realities of family life tomorrow. A bedside table holds the lamp you carefully chose, alongside the phone charger, half-read book and glass of water that actually live there. These details matter to us. Because functionality isn’t separate from good design. It is part of it. Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Natural Inspired by the Way Australians Live Australian homes have their own rhythm. We love spaces that feel open and relaxed. Dining rooms that welcome people in rather than asking them to sit formally. Natural materials, warm timber and interiors that feel considered without feeling untouchable. Our homes move easily between everyday living and entertaining. Furniture should be able to do the same. From a Byron Dining Table surrounded by family on Sunday afternoon to a Liverpool Bed waiting at the end of a long day, we design our collections with these real moments in mind. Not for a perfect home. For your home. Style That Leaves Room for You We love beautiful interiors. But we don’t believe your home should look exactly like someone else’s. Furniture should create the foundation. You bring the personality. The photographs on the sideboard. The chair that always gets pulled into another room. The flowers from the weekend market. The artwork you’ve had for years. The things collected on holidays and the pieces that mean something only to you. Over time, these layers are what turn a room into your room. Our role is simply to give them somewhere beautiful to belong. Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Black This Is Cedora Cedora is about considered design without making home feel complicated. Liverpool Pine 6 Drawer Chest - Natural It’s about furniture with character, made for spaces that are actually lived in. It’s about discovering your style rather than following someone else’s. And above all, it’s about creating a home that feels good to come back to. Because we believe the best homes aren’t necessarily the most perfect. They’re the ones filled with life. Cedora A Home Made for Living. Designed for your style. Made for your everyday. Related Posts The Beauty of Natural Timber One Room, Three Ways: Coastal, Scandinavian and Hamptons Choosing Between the Cedora Bedroom Ranges Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.
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.
Oak is the most-used and least-checked word in furniture retail. It carries a hundred years of association with things that last, it appears in product titles far more often than it appears in actual structures, and almost nobody asks the follow-up question, which is: oak where, exactly? In the Cedora range oak turns up in 75 of 128 pieces, across three collections. Not one of them is solid oak from top to floor. That sounds like a confession and it is not, because the three ways the timber is used are each the right answer to a different problem. Here is the full picture, with nothing rounded up. Key Takeaways Oak is in 75 of 128 pieces, across Liverpool, Richmond and Bristol. Richmond: solid oak legs on all 27 pieces, pine structure between them. Bristol: a solid oak top on all eight pieces, pine carcass underneath. Liverpool: oak veneer over a solid pine frame on 34 pieces, plus six bed frames using oak-finished MDF. No Cedora piece is solid oak throughout, and the price reflects that honestly. The Three Jobs Oak Is Doing Timber in furniture is not one decision, it is three, and they pull in different directions. A leg has to survive being kicked, knocked by a chair and dragged across a floor. A tabletop has to resist wear across a broad flat plane. A wide panel, like the side of a wardrobe or the top of a long sideboard, mostly has to stay flat through summers that swing forty degrees and winters that do not. Solid hardwood is excellent at the first two and demonstrably worse at the third. A single wide oak board wants to cup as it takes on and gives up moisture, which is why traditional cabinetmakers built wide surfaces from frames and panels rather than one slab. Modern makers solve the same problem with a stable core and a real timber face. So a catalogue that uses oak three different ways is not being inconsistent. It is answering three different questions. What matters for a buyer is knowing which answer you are getting, because the three cost different amounts to make and behave differently in your house. Richmond: Solid Oak, in the Legs All 27 Richmond pieces are listed as solid oak legs with a pine structure. The oak sits exactly where the abuse lands. On the Richmond Pine Dining Table 240cm - Natural, a two and a half metre span, the closed timber loop at each end takes every chair that gets pushed back, every vacuum head, and every foot that finds it in the dark. The same reasoning runs down through the range. A Richmond Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard or a Richmond Pine Coffee Table carries the same leg frame, which is why the pieces read as related from across a room even when only one is visible. What you are not getting is an oak carcass. The structure between those legs is pine, and Richmond is priced as what it is. If you want the practical benefit of oak, which is a corner that shrugs off a decade of contact, this is where it lives. If you want the mass and the sound of a solid hardwood cabinet, this is not that. [products-of-collection collection="richmond" heading="Oak Legs, Pine Structure" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-oak-1"] Bristol: Solid Oak, on the Top Bristol's eight pieces invert it. Here the oak is a solid top over a painted pine carcass, which puts the hardwood on the only plane that meets a lamp base, a coffee cup, a set of car keys thrown down at the end of the day. On a Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest or a Bristol Pine 2 Drawer Bedside Table that is a genuinely efficient allocation. The sides and back of a chest of drawers are touched by a vacuum cleaner twice a year. The top is touched every single day. Spending the material budget on the square metre that gets used, and painting the rest, is the choice most furniture buyers would make themselves if anyone laid it out for them. It also gives the range its look. A warm oak plane against a white painted body is the whole visual idea behind Bristol, and it is the reason the pieces read as Scandinavian rather than as painted bedroom furniture. The material decision and the design decision are the same decision. Bristol Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy Liverpool: Oak as a Surface, Not a Structure Liverpool is the largest range at forty pieces, and the one where the word needs the most care. Thirty-four are recorded as a solid pine frame with oak veneer. The remaining six bed frames are pine with oak-finished MDF and a fabric headboard. Veneer has an undeserved reputation, mostly earned by the plastic wood-look laminates of the 1980s, which are not the same thing at all. A real veneer is a thin layer of actual oak bonded to a stable core. The surface you see and touch is oak. What it is sitting on is engineered not to move, which across the wide panels Liverpool uses is a functional advantage rather than a cost saving dressed up as one. The honest limitation is repair. A deep gouge in a solid oak top can be sanded out. The same gouge in a veneer goes through to the core and cannot. If you have a household that is hard on surfaces, that difference is worth more than any spec sheet comparison, and it points you toward the solid-topped ranges instead. Liverpool Pine Dining Table 240cm - Natural Liverpool Pine 6 Drawer Chest - Natural What Solid Oak Throughout Would Actually Cost This is the part usually left out. Oak is expensive as a raw material and more expensive again as a finished one, because wide boards have to be selected, dried slowly and machined with allowances for movement. A chest of drawers built entirely from solid oak is not ten or twenty per cent dearer than one built from pine with an oak top. It is a different category of purchase. That is why almost nobody at this end of the market sells it, and why any listing that says solid oak at a mid-range price deserves a second look at the specification rather than the headline. The question to ask is never "is it oak", it is "oak where, and how thick". If you are comparing across shops, three checks settle it in a showroom. Look at the end grain on a tabletop, where solid timber shows a different pattern to the face. Run a finger along an edge and feel whether the face grain turns the corner or stops at a banded strip. And lift a corner, because solid hardwood announces its weight in a way nothing else does. Which One You Should Actually Buy If the piece is a table or a bench you eat at daily, the argument favours the Richmond range. Legs are the failure point on dining furniture and solid oak there is a real, felt difference over years, not a specification you take on faith. If the piece is bedroom storage in a small room, Bristol's solid top is the better allocation. The top is the working surface in a bedroom, the carcass is not, and the range's proportions were drawn around light structural timber in a way an all-hardwood range could not match. And if you want one look running across a whole house, Liverpool is the only range broad enough to do it, at forty pieces covering bedroom, dining and living. That breadth is what the veneer buys. Knowing that going in is the entire point of this article, and it is a far better position to buy from than assuming the word on the label means something it does not. [products-of-collection collection="bristol" heading="Solid Oak Tops" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-oak-2"] Frequently Asked Questions Does Cedora sell solid oak furniture? Not solid oak throughout. Oak appears in 75 of the 128 pieces, but always in a specific role: solid oak legs on Richmond, solid oak tops on Bristol, and oak veneer over a pine frame on Liverpool. No piece is solid oak from top to floor. Is oak veneer worse than solid oak? Not for a wide panel. A thin oak surface bonded to a stable core moves less with heat and humidity than a solid board of the same width, so it is less likely to cup or split. Solid oak wins on edge damage, because a veneer surface cannot be sanded back the same way. Which Cedora range has real solid oak? Two of them. Richmond uses solid oak for the legs on all 27 pieces, and Bristol uses a solid oak top across its eight. In both cases the rest of the structure is pine. How can I tell veneer from solid timber in person? Look at the edges and the end grain. On solid timber the grain on the face continues around the edge and the pattern on the end is different again. On veneer the edge is usually a separate banded strip, and the face pattern stops rather than turns. Why would a maker use oak in three different ways? Because the demands are different. Legs take impact, tops take wear, and wide panels need to stay flat. Solid oak suits the first two and veneer over a stable core suits the third. Using one material everywhere would make some parts worse, not better. Related Posts Solid Wood vs Veneer vs MDF: Which Furniture Is Best for You? Pine Is in 105 of Cedora's 128 Pieces. Here Is Where It Hides. Oak vs Acacia Wood Furniture: Best Dining Table Choice Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.
Open the Scandinavian collection and you get 49 pieces, which sounds like one coherent range until you look at what is actually in it. Three separate ranges sit under that one label, and none of them furnishes a whole house on its own. That matters because of how people buy. Almost nobody buys 49 pieces. They buy a dining table now, a bedroom in six months, and they want the second purchase to look like it belongs with the first. Here is what genuinely lines up between the three, and what does not. Key Takeaways Richmond is 27 of the 49 pieces and the only range covering dining and living. Liverpool contributes 14 bedroom pieces and Bristol 8, and neither does dining. Every case piece across all three is 45cm deep, and every chest is 140 x 45 x 85cm. Richmond and Liverpool are bare timber; Bristol is painted white with a timber top. The two mirrors in the collection are different shapes: 100cm square and 90cm round. One Label, Three Ranges, and Only One Dining Room Richmond is the workhorse. Its 27 pieces cover the Richmond Pine Dining Table 190cm - Natural, chairs, two bench lengths, a sideboard, a console, a Richmond Pine Coffee Table - Natural, a TV unit and an end table. If your dining and living areas run into each other, as most Australian open plan levels do, one range does the whole floor. What Richmond does not make is a bed. Not in any size, not in either finish. So the moment you walk out of the shared rooms and into a bedroom, the Scandinavian collection hands you over to a different range entirely, and you have two of them to choose between. Liverpool brings 14 bedroom pieces to the collection: three bed sizes in two finishes, bedside tables, chests, tallboys and a mirror. Bristol brings 8, covering the same list in one finish. Both are complete bedrooms. Neither has a single dining piece in this collection, which is the split nobody notices until they are halfway through furnishing. Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Natural The Boxes Match, the Fronts Do Not Here is the part that makes mixing safe. Every case piece in all three ranges is 45cm deep. Every six drawer chest is 140 x 45 x 85cm, whether it is the Liverpool Pine 6 Drawer Chest - Natural or the Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest. Every tallboy is 100cm wide and 45cm deep. So two pieces from two ranges will sit on the same wall, project the same distance into the room and line up along the top within a couple of centimetres. That is not a small thing. It means a Bristol chest and a Liverpool tallboy in the same bedroom will read as a planned pair rather than two pieces that happen to be there. The bedside tables are the exception worth knowing. The Liverpool Pine 2 Drawer Bedside Table - Natural is 60cm wide and 55.9cm high. The Bristol Pine 2 Drawer Bedside Table is 55cm wide and 60cm high. Same depth, but one is wide and low and the other narrow and tall, so a matched pair either side of a bed has to come from the same range. Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest [products-of-collection collection="scandinavian-furniture" heading="Shop the Scandinavian Range" limit="12" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-scandi-1"] Richmond Is Bare Timber, Bristol Is Painted Where the three ranges genuinely part company is the surface. Richmond is bare timber throughout, with oak legs on a pine structure and a natural or black finish. Nothing is painted, and the joinery is left visible in the open frame legs that run under the tables and benches. Liverpool is also bare timber, a pine frame with an oak veneer, in a warmer oak tone or black. The bedroom pieces add one thing Richmond does not have anywhere: the bed frames carry an upholstered headboard and footboard panel set into the timber, which softens a room in a way no amount of grain does. Bristol is the odd one out and deliberately so. It is painted white with a timber top on the case pieces, and the Bristol Pine Queen Bed Frame has a slatted headboard rather than a solid or upholstered one. In a small or dark bedroom that white carcass throws light back into the room, which the bare timber ranges cannot do. Bristol Pine Queen Bed Frame Which Bedroom Range Goes With Richmond Downstairs Picture the actual moment this gets decided. The Richmond table went in eighteen months ago, the room works, and now the spare bedroom has to stop being a spare bedroom because a baby is coming or your mother is moving in. You are standing in a showroom with a photo on your phone, trying to remember whether the table was warm or grey, and the two bedroom ranges in front of you look nothing like each other. Here is the honest answer. If the dining and living rooms are Richmond in natural, the Liverpool bedroom continues the same idea: bare timber, similar warmth, no change of language when you walk through the house. If the bedroom is small, north facing onto a fence, or the room in the house that never gets light, Bristol is the better answer even though it does not match. White painted furniture in a dark bedroom is worth more than continuity is, and a bedroom is a room nobody sees from the dining table anyway. The one combination to avoid is Bristol and Liverpool together in the same bedroom. Painted white against bare oak tone at close range reads as two sets of furniture rather than one, and unlike the room to room question there is nowhere for the eye to rest between them. Pick one range per bedroom and the collection behaves itself. Richmond Pine Coffee Table - Natural The Two Mirrors Are Not the Same Shape A detail that catches people out when they order two rooms at once. The Bristol Pine Mirror is a 100cm square with a timber top rail, sized to sit on the matching chest. The Liverpool Pine Mirror - Natural is a 90cm circle, 4cm deep, made to hang on a wall on its own. They are not interchangeable, and the difference is not decorative. A square mirror on a chest inherits the chest's height and shows you from about the ankles up. A round mirror you hang wherever you like, so it can be centred at standing eye level and actually used to check an outfit. If you are furnishing two bedrooms from this collection, that is the thing to decide first, before the chest and well before the bed. The mirror determines whether the chest needs to go on a wall you can stand back from, and moving a chest after the fact is a two person job nobody enjoys. Buying It in the Right Order Start with the shared rooms. Richmond covers dining and living completely, it is the range visitors actually see, and it is the one where a piece bought later has to match something bought earlier. Get the table and the sideboard right and the rest of the floor follows. Do the bedroom second, as a separate decision rather than an extension of the first one. It is a different room, a different range, and the only thing it needs to inherit is the general restraint: 45cm deep case pieces, uncluttered fronts, no ornament. That is what the label is describing, not a single timber tone. What ties it together in the end is the depth grid rather than the colour. Everything in the Scandinavian range comes 45cm off the wall, which is why a house furnished from three of its ranges over three years still reads as one decision rather than three shopping trips. Nobody visiting counts the ranges. They just notice that the place hangs together. Frequently Asked Questions Can you mix furniture ranges in the same house? Across rooms, easily. In the same room, only if the finishes agree. Richmond and Liverpool are both bare timber so they sit together comfortably, while Bristol is painted white with a timber top and reads as a different family beside either of them. Which Cedora range covers a dining room in Scandinavian style? Richmond, and only Richmond. Its 27 pieces cover the dining table, chairs, benches, sideboard, console, coffee table, TV unit and end table. Liverpool and Bristol contribute bedroom pieces to the same collection and nothing for the dining room. Do the chests of drawers from different ranges match in size? The boxes do. Every six drawer chest in the collection is 140 x 45 x 85cm, and every tallboy is 100cm wide and 45cm deep. What changes is the handle, the base detail and the finish, so two chests will line up on a wall and still look different. What is the difference between the Bristol and Liverpool bedside tables? Five centimetres of width and four of height. The Liverpool is 60cm wide and 55.9cm high, the Bristol is 55cm wide and 60cm high. Both are 45cm deep. The Liverpool sits lower than most mattresses and the Bristol sits level with them. Is Scandinavian furniture always pale timber? Not in this range. Richmond and Liverpool both come in a black finish alongside the natural, and Bristol is painted white with a timber top. The common thread is the uncluttered profile rather than the colour. Related Posts Scandinavian Interior Design: A Practical Guide Scandinavian Bedroom and Dining: Create a Calm and Cohesive Home Why a 100cm Bedroom Mirror Stops at Your Ankles Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.
There are 33 pieces of black furniture in this catalogue and they behave differently from every other group in it. Black is not a range and it is not a style. It is a finish that runs across two ranges and stops dead at the edge of them. What that means in practice is that you can furnish three entire rooms in it, and the moment you want a fourth thing, the answer is often no. Here is exactly what black covers, room by room, and the two places where it runs out. Key Takeaways Thirty three black pieces: 20 from Liverpool and 13 from Richmond, and nothing else. A complete black bedroom exists, and every piece of it is Liverpool. The dining room is the only one where both ranges give you a choice. Both coffee tables are 45cm high, but the sideboards are 11cm apart. Six of the eight ranges have no black version of any piece. Thirty Three Pieces, Two Ranges, Three Rooms The split is 20 Liverpool and 13 Richmond. Between them they cover bed frames, bedside tables, chests, tallboys, mirrors, dining tables, dining chairs, benches, sideboards, consoles, coffee tables, TV units and a side table. On paper that is a whole house. Underneath the finish, both ranges are the same construction they are in natural: Liverpool is a solid pine frame with an oak veneer, Richmond is oak legs on a pine structure. Nothing is built differently to take the dark finish, which is why the black pieces carry the same dimensions as their pale twins to the millimetre. The grain still shows, and that is worth knowing before you order. This is not a painted flat black, it is a dark finish over open grained timber, so the surface reads as timber that happens to be black rather than as a lacquered panel. In direct Australian sun the grain is clearly visible from across a room. The Black Bedroom Is Liverpool, and Only Liverpool Seven pieces make a complete bedroom, and every one of them comes from the same range. The Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Black carries an upholstered headboard and footboard panel set into a black timber frame, which is the detail that keeps a dark bed from reading as a slab. Around it sit the Liverpool Pine 2 Drawer Bedside Table - Black at 60 x 45 x 55.9cm, the Liverpool Pine 6 Drawer Chest - Black at 140 x 45 x 85cm and the Liverpool Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy - Black at 100 x 45 x 100cm. The chest drawers are 24.6cm deep inside, the deepest in the catalogue in any finish. The Liverpool Pine Mirror - Black finishes it: a 90cm circle, 4cm deep, hung rather than rested. A round black mirror on a pale wall above a black chest is the single most effective thing you can do with this range, because the wall does the lifting and the furniture does not have to. Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Black [products-of-collection collection="black-furniture" heading="Every Piece Offered in Black" limit="12" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-black26-1"] The Dining Room Is the One With a Choice This is the only room where black gives you two genuinely different options. The Liverpool Pine Dining Table 190cm - Black sits on a solid panel base with softly rounded edges. The Richmond Pine Dining Table 240cm - Black sits on an open frame that you can see through and under. That difference matters more in black than it does in natural. A dark solid base reads as a block of shadow under the table, and in a smaller dining room it can make the whole piece feel heavier than it is. An open frame in the same finish keeps the floor visible underneath, which is the reason the Richmond version handles a tight room better. Richmond also brings the only black bench in the catalogue. The Richmond Pine Dining Bench 208cm - Black pushes fully under the table because it is 40cm deep against a chair's 62cm, and in black, tucked in, it effectively disappears. If your dining area is a walkway as much as a room, that combination is the strongest argument in the whole range. Richmond Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard - Black The Living Room, and the One Gap Coffee tables, TV units and consoles all come in black from both ranges. The Richmond Pine 2 Drawer TV Unit - Black is 160 x 45 x 55cm and the Richmond Pine Coffee Table - Black is 120 x 60 x 45cm, both with the open frame detail that runs through the range. The gap is the side table. The only one offered in black is the Liverpool Pine End Table - Black at 55 x 55 x 58cm. If everything else in the room is Richmond, this is the one piece that has to come from the other range, and at 55cm square in the same dark finish nobody will ever notice. A black TV unit is also the easiest black purchase to justify. A television is a black rectangle whether you like it or not, and a dark cabinet underneath absorbs it into one shape instead of framing it in pale timber. That is the argument for black even in a room where nothing else is dark. Richmond Pine 2 Drawer TV Unit - Black Where the Two Ranges Line Up, and Where They Do Not If you are buying black from both ranges, and most people who do a whole level end up doing exactly that, there are two numbers to check. The good news is at low level: both coffee tables are 45cm high, and the TV units are within a centimetre of each other in both height and depth. Put them in the same room and nothing looks off. The tall pieces are where the two ranges disagree. The Liverpool sideboard is 76cm high and the Richmond is 65cm, an 11cm gap that is very visible if the two share a wall. The consoles are 76cm and 82.5cm, 6.5cm apart. Neither is wrong, but they were not designed to stand next to each other. The workable rule is one range per sight line. Richmond for the dining end, Liverpool for the living end, or the reverse, and let the doorway or the change of room do the work. Mixing them within a single wall is the only way to make black furniture look accidental, which given how deliberate the finish is would be a shame. Liverpool Pine 6 Drawer Chest - Black What Never Comes in Black Six of the eight ranges have no black version of anything. There is no black acacia, because the two acacia ranges exist to show the timber and a dark finish would defeat the point. There is no black French Provincial, no black Hamptons bedroom, and no black version of the bed frames that carry drawers in the footboard. That last one is the exclusion worth planning around. If you want under bed storage and you want black, those two requirements do not meet in this catalogue, and the answer is a black bed plus a black chest rather than a black bed with drawers in it. What you get in return for the narrow range is consistency. Every black piece here came from one of two ranges built to the same depth grid, so anything you buy in black will physically agree with anything else you buy in black. The full black range is small enough to see in one screen, which is the fastest way to check whether the piece you want is in it. Frequently Asked Questions Which Cedora ranges come in black? Two of the eight. Liverpool accounts for 20 of the 33 black pieces and Richmond for 13. Byron, Oxford, London, Manchester, Bristol and Newcastle have no black version of anything, so black and acacia never appear on the same piece. Can you furnish a whole bedroom in black? Yes, and it comes entirely from Liverpool: three bed sizes, a bedside table, a six drawer chest, a five drawer tallboy and a mirror. That is a complete bedroom, and it is the only range that offers one in a dark finish. Do the two black ranges match each other? At low level, yes. Both coffee tables are 45cm high and the TV units are within a centimetre of each other in height and depth. Higher up they diverge: the sideboards are 11cm apart and the consoles 6.5cm, which is visible when they share a wall. Is there a black side table? One, from Liverpool, at 55 x 55 x 58cm. If the rest of your living room is black Richmond, the side table is the piece that has to come from the other range, and at that size and height the difference does not read. Does black furniture work in a small room? It works best as a single anchor rather than a full scheme. One black piece against a light wall gives a small room a focal point. A whole small room in black loses the sense of where the walls are, which is the opposite of what a small room needs. 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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.
The Liverpool Collection was created for that sense of cohesion. Not to fill a space, but to refine it. To bring balance between form and feeling, between structure and comfort, between what is seen and what is lived.
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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