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One dining room styled three ways in coastal, Scandinavian and Hamptons looks
dining room One Room, Three Ways: Coastal, Scandinavian and Hamptons
July 28, 2026

Same space. Different character. A room doesn’t need to change completely to feel entirely new. The furniture you choose, the materials you introduce and the way you layer a space can transform its character. From relaxed Modern Coastal to pared-back Modern Scandinavian and timeless Classic Hamptons, one dining room can tell three very different stories. Here’s how to find the look that feels most like home. LOOK 01: Modern Coastal Relaxed, natural and made for easy living. Modern Coastal style takes its cues from the Australian lifestyle - light-filled spaces, natural textures and an effortless connection between indoors and out. Rather than filling the room with obvious coastal motifs, keep the palette soft and understated. Think warm timber, off-white upholstery, woven textures, natural linen and subtle organic shapes. At the centre of the room, choose a dining table with warmth and presence. The Oxford Acacia Dining Table is a natural fit. Its warm timber character and substantial proportions create a relaxed focal point while maintaining the refined feel associated with Modern Coastal interiors. Pair it with light upholstered dining chairs, a textured rug and an oversized ceramic vessel filled with native greenery. Complete the space with an Oxford Sideboard to bring practical storage and visual balance to the room. Cedora pieces to create the look Oxford Acacia Dining Table 190cm Oxford Acacia Dining Table 240cm Oxford Acacia 4 Door 1 Drawer Sideboard Oxford Acacia Side Table Styling palette:Warm timber · Soft white · Sand · Natural linen · Woven textures The feeling:Light. Relaxed. Refined. Perfect for a home that feels like summer, all year round. Oxford Acacia Dining Table 190cm LOOK 02: Modern Scandinavian Clean, warm and quietly considered. Modern Scandinavian interiors prove that simplicity doesn’t have to feel cold. The key is balancing clean lines and functional design with materials that introduce warmth and texture. Keep the room uncluttered and allow a few considered pieces to define the space. For this look, make the Richmond Dining Table the hero. Its clean silhouette and natural timber character give the room structure without overwhelming it, while the understated design makes it easy to layer with contemporary dining chairs and softer decorative elements. Continue the look with a Richmond Sideboard or Richmond Console Table, then introduce a neutral rug, sculptural ceramics, linen and a simple pendant above the dining table. Leave some negative space too. In Scandinavian-inspired interiors, what you leave out can be just as important as what you bring in. Cedora pieces to create the look Richmond Dining Table – Natural Richmond Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard - Natural Richmond Pine 2 Drawer Console Table - Natural For a stronger contrast, selected Richmond pieces in Black can introduce a more graphic, contemporary edge. Styling palette:Natural timber · Warm white · Oatmeal · Black accents · Soft neutrals The feeling:Calm. Functional. Effortless. For those who believe less can feel like more. Richmond Pine Dining Table 190cm - Natural Richmond Pine 2 Drawer Console Table - Natural LOOK 03: Classic Hamptons Timeless, elegant and beautifully balanced. Classic Hamptons style brings a more structured sense of elegance to the home. Symmetry, generous proportions and refined detailing are central to the look, balanced by a soft neutral palette that keeps the room inviting rather than overly formal. This is where the London Collection comes into its own. While London is especially suited to creating a complete Classic Hamptons bedroom, its design language offers the perfect inspiration for carrying the look throughout the home: considered proportions, timeless detailing and a sophisticated yet comfortable character. For a Hamptons-inspired dining space, build around classic furniture silhouettes and layer the room with upholstered seating, soft neutral textiles and elegant accessories. Add a large statement pendant above the table, introduce ceramic or glass décor and keep styling balanced on either side of the room. If you want to carry the same aesthetic into the bedroom, the London Bed Frame creates a strong Hamptons focal point, complemented by matching bedside and storage pieces. Cedora pieces to create the look London Pine Bed Frame London Pine 2 Drawer Bedside Table London matching bedroom storage pieces Styling palette:Crisp white · Warm neutral · Soft grey · Natural timber · Classic detailing The feeling:Elegant. Comfortable. Timeless. Classic style, designed for the way we live today. London Pine Queen Bed Frame with 2 Drawers Same Room. Your Style. There is no single formula for creating a beautiful home. You might be drawn to the relaxed warmth of Modern Coastal, the quiet simplicity of Modern Scandinavian, or the timeless elegance of Classic Hamptons. The difference often comes down to a few considered choices - the shape of a table, the warmth of timber, the texture of a chair or the way accessories are layered around the room. Start with the piece that speaks to you. Then build your room around it. One Room. Three Ways. Same space. Different character. Discover the Cedora collections and find the style that feels like home. 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London bed frame with two footboard drawers made up in blue linen against white panelling below framed ocean prints
bedroom furniture Why the London Collection Keeps Its Drawers at the Foot of the Bed
July 21, 2026

Most bedrooms in this country are not built for storage beds. The bed goes against one wall, a robe takes the other, and the strip of carpet left over is too narrow to open a side drawer without shuffling sideways past the corner of the mattress. That is why so many storage beds get bought once and quietly resented afterwards. The London beds solve it by putting both drawers in the footboard. They pull out toward the end of the bed, into the space you already walk through. Here is how the eleven pieces in the range work, what actually fits in those drawers, and where the trade-offs sit. Key Takeaways Both drawers open at the foot of the bed, not the sides. Drawer interiors are 43.7cm deep and 24.9cm high, in three widths by bed size. Six bed frames: double, queen and king, each with or without drawers. Solid pine structure, crisp white finish, panelled bedhead standing 120cm tall. Tallboy stores upward at 100cm wide, chest stores sideways at 140cm wide. The Drawers Open at the Foot, Not the Side This is the detail worth understanding before anything else, because it decides whether a storage bed is usable in your room or just an expensive idea. On the London Pine Queen Bed Frame with 2 Drawers the two drawers are set into the footboard on metal runners and pull out lengthways. The space they need is the walkway at the end of the bed, which every bedroom has, rather than the 60cm of side clearance that a conventional under bed drawer demands. What that buys you is freedom in the floor plan. Push the bed into a corner. Put a robe or a chest hard against one side. Run the bed under a window with a bedside table on the only free side. None of it stops the drawers working, and none of it makes you move furniture to get a jumper out in June. Each drawer measures 43.7cm deep and 24.9cm high inside. Widths follow the bed: 59cm on the double, 66.5cm on the queen and 81.5cm on the king. In practice that is spare sheet sets, towels, folded blankets and the off-season half of a wardrobe. It is not deep enough for a bulky pillow stack, so plan it as flat storage and it will not disappoint you. Three Sizes, Two Versions, One Decision There are six beds in the range: three sizes, each offered plain or with the drawers. The London Pine Double Bed Frame is W154 x D207.1cm, the London Pine Queen Bed Frame is W169 x D218.1cm and the London Pine King Bed Frame is W199 x D218.1cm. Every one carries a panelled bedhead standing 120cm from the floor, which is tall enough to sit against and read without a stack of pillows behind you. All six use a solid slat base, so there is no ensemble or separate bed base to buy. A mattress goes straight on. That matters for the drawer versions in particular, because a slat base is what leaves the volume under the bed free for the drawers to run into. The decision between plain and drawers is not really about money. It is about whether you have somewhere else for linen. If the house has a decent hallway cupboard, the plain frame keeps the footboard clean and low. If you are in an apartment or a two bedroom cottage where the linen press is a shelf above the washing machine, the drawer version quietly returns a cupboard to you. [products-of-collection collection="london-bed-frames" heading="London Bed Frames" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-london-1"] What Goes Beside the Bed The London Pine 2 Drawer Bedside Table is W55 x D45 x H60cm with two drawers, each 35.5cm wide, 38.3cm deep and 17.5cm high inside. That 60cm height is the number to check against your mattress. A bedside top that lands somewhere near the top of the mattress means you can reach a glass of water in the dark without patting around below the level of the bed, and 60cm suits most mattress and base combinations without a platform under it. Two drawers rather than one open shelf is a deliberate choice for a bedroom that other people see. A shelf displays the reading glasses, the phone charger, the half-finished blister pack of antihistamines and the receipt you meant to throw out. A drawer takes all of it and gives you back a surface with a lamp and one thing on it. The panelled fronts and round knobs match the bed and the case pieces exactly, which is the practical argument for buying a bedside from the same range rather than a cheaper pair from elsewhere. White is not one colour. Two whites in a small room that do not quite agree will bother you every morning for years. Tallboy or Chest: Store Upward or Store Sideways The two case pieces answer opposite questions. The London Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy is W100 x D45 x H120cm with five drawers: two narrow ones across the top at 39cm wide, then three full width drawers at 80.5cm. It takes a metre of wall and goes up, which is what you want when the floor is already spoken for and the only free space is a corner between a window and a door. The London Pine 6 Drawer Chest is W140 x D45 x H85cm with six drawers, each 59cm wide and 19.1cm high inside. It needs almost half a metre more wall than the tallboy and gives back a long surface at hip height, which is where a lamp, a tray for keys and watches, and a stack of folded washing waiting to be put away all end up living. In a bedroom with one long empty wall the chest is the better buy, and in a bedroom with no long empty wall it is not an option at all. Drawer depth is worth comparing too. The tallboy drawers are 22.5cm high, the chest drawers 19.1cm. Jumpers and folded denim go in the tallboy, shirts and t-shirts in the chest. The Mirror, and What Makes This Hamptons The London Pine Mirror is 100 x 100cm and just 5.5cm deep, framed in the same white with the same moulded detailing. It fixes to the top of the chest or hangs anywhere in the room, and if you want the pair together as one purchase there is a London Pine 6 Drawer Chest with Mirror sold as a set. A square metre of mirror is doing more than reflecting an outfit. Hung opposite or beside a window it takes whatever light the room gets and puts it back into the far corner, which in a south-facing bedroom or a ground floor room shaded by the neighbour's fence is the cheapest thing you can do to stop the space feeling like a cave at four in the afternoon. That is also the honest summary of what makes the London range read as Hamptons rather than plain white furniture. It is not one feature. It is the panelled fronts, the moulded edges, the plinth base and the round knobs, all in a flat white that reflects rather than shines. Put those together and you get the look without a single decorative object on the shelf, which is the version that still looks right in ten years. [products-of-collection collection="london" heading="Shop the London Collection" limit="12" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-london-2"] Frequently Asked Questions Where do the drawers on a London bed frame open? At the foot. Both drawers are built into the footboard and pull straight out toward the end of the bed, so you do not need clearance along the sides. A London bed can sit hard against a wall, or in a corner, and the storage still works. How big are the under bed drawers? Each drawer is 43.7cm deep and 24.9cm high inside. The width depends on the bed: 59cm on the double, 66.5cm on the queen and 81.5cm on the king. There are two drawers on every bed that has them. Is the London range solid timber? The structure is solid pine, finished in crisp white with panelled headboards, moulded edges and a plinth base. The beds use a solid slat base, so no separate ensemble or bed base is needed under the mattress. What is the difference between the London tallboy and the chest? Footprint. The tallboy is 100cm wide and 120cm tall with five drawers, so it stores upward. The chest is 140cm wide and 85cm tall with six drawers, so it stores sideways and gives you a usable surface at hip height. Can the London mirror be used on its own? Yes. It measures 100 x 100cm and only 5.5cm deep. It can be fixed to the top of the London chest or hung by itself on any wall in the room. Related Posts Storage Bed Frame vs Regular Bed: Which One Fits Your Bedroom? Hamptons Bedroom Style: Create a Light Elegant Coastal Retreat Timber Bed Frames Australia: The Complete Buying Guide Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.

Richmond dining table in pale timber with a matching bench along one side and upholstered chairs, in an open plan room with concrete floors
byron collection Designed Beyond Trends
July 08, 2026

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

Painted white bed frame with footboard drawers in a panelled bedroom, its pine structure hidden under the finish
bedroom furniture Pine Is in 105 of Cedora's 128 Pieces. Here Is Where It Hides.
May 02, 2026

Pine has a reputation problem in this country, and it is not entirely undeserved. Say the word and most people picture a flat-pack bookshelf, an unfinished student desk, or the orange-tinged bedroom suite that came with a rental in 1998. It is the timber people assume they are settling for. So it is worth knowing that pine sits inside 105 of the 128 pieces Cedora currently sells, across six of its eight ranges, and that in not one of them is it what you look at. It is under paint, under an oak top, under veneer, or holding up a set of solid oak legs. Here is where it goes and why that is a deliberate decision rather than a corner cut. Key Takeaways Pine is in 105 of 128 active pieces, across six of the eight ranges. Only Byron and Oxford contain no pine. Both are solid acacia. In every range pine is structural, never the visible finish. London, Manchester and Newcastle paint over it. Bristol tops it with oak. Liverpool veneers it. Richmond pairs a pine structure with solid oak legs. What Pine Is Actually Doing in There Structural timber has a different job from surface timber, and the qualities that make a good frame are not the ones that make a good tabletop. A frame needs to stay dimensionally stable through a Melbourne winter and a Brisbane summer, hold a screw without splitting, and not weigh so much that a bed cannot be carried up a staircase. Pine does all three, which is why it has held the job for a century. What it does not do well is sit exposed on a surface that gets used. It is softer than oak or acacia, so it takes a dent where they would take a scratch, and bare pine yellows unevenly in Australian light. Both of those problems disappear the moment the timber is painted, topped or veneered, which is precisely what every Cedora range does with it. So the honest way to read a spec sheet that says solid pine structure is not "this is a cheap timber". It is "the money in this piece went somewhere you will actually see". Whether that trade is a good one depends entirely on where the maker then spent it, which is the useful comparison between the ranges. London and Manchester: Pine Under Paint Twenty-two pieces between them, all listed as a solid pine structure, all finished in crisp white. This is the most straightforward use of the timber in the catalogue, and the one where the logic is clearest. Paint does not care about grain. A painted panel on pine and a painted panel on oak look identical from a metre away, and one of them costs a great deal more to make. What that buys instead is detail. Both ranges carry panelled fronts, moulded edges and a plinth base, all of which are shaping and joinery rather than material. Put the budget into a plain hardwood carcass and you get plain furniture in nice timber. Put it into pine and profiling and you get the London Pine 6 Drawer Chest at W140 x D45 x H85cm, or the Manchester Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy at W100 x D45 x H114cm, both of which read as considerably more expensive than they are. Pine also earns its place structurally in the bed frames. The London Pine Queen Bed Frame with 2 Drawers carries two drawers in its footboard on metal runners, and a drawer that runs on a frame needs that frame to stay square for years. A light, stable timber is not a compromise there. It is the correct engineering answer. Manchester Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy [products-of-collection collection="hamptons-bedroom-furniture" heading="Painted Pine Bedroom Furniture" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-pine-1"] Bristol: Pine Under an Oak Top Bristol's eight pieces take a different route. The material is recorded as an oak top on a solid pine structure, which splits the piece along exactly the line where it matters: hardwood on the horizontal surfaces that take wear, pine in the vertical carcass that does not. It is the most efficient version of the idea in the catalogue. On a Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest the only part that meets a lamp base, a set of keys or a coffee cup is oak. The sides, the back and the drawer boxes are pine, and nothing about that is visible or, frankly, relevant to how the piece lives. You pay for hardwood on the square metre that needs it. Bristol is also the range that shows what pine buys you in flexibility. Its queen frame is 162.4cm wide against 169cm for the painted Hamptons frames, and the tallboy is 110cm tall rather than 114cm or 120cm. Lighter structural timber makes those proportions easier to draw, and in a small bedroom the few centimetres are worth more than the material story. Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest Liverpool and Richmond: Under Veneer, Behind Oak Legs The two largest ranges use pine in the two remaining ways. Liverpool, at forty pieces, is listed as a solid pine frame with oak veneer across thirty-four of them, and the six bed frames as pine with MDFV oak and a fabric headboard. Veneer gets a bad name it has not deserved for decades: a thin oak surface over a stable pine core is more dimensionally reliable across a wide panel than solid oak is, because it does not move with the seasons the same way. Richmond takes the opposite approach across its twenty-seven pieces, pairing a pine structure with solid oak legs. The oak goes exactly where the load and the knocks concentrate, at the corners a chair hits every day, and the pine does the spanning work in between. The Richmond Pine Dining Table 240cm - Natural is a two and a half metre span held up by that combination. Between the two, that is sixty-seven of the 105 pine pieces, and neither of them is sold as pine furniture. Nobody browsing the Liverpool range is thinking about the frame under the veneer, which is rather the point of a well-made frame. Richmond Pine Dining Table 240cm - Natural Should You Care That It Is Pine Only in two situations, and it is worth being direct about both. The first is if you are buying an exposed timber surface and the spec sheet says pine with no top and no veneer, which in this catalogue does not happen, but does happen elsewhere. Bare pine on a dining table will show every fork and every hot mug within a year. The second is weight and permanence. Pine-framed furniture is lighter, which is a genuine advantage in a rental or a house you rearrange, and a mild disadvantage if you want a piece that feels immovable. A solid hardwood chest announces itself when you push it. A painted pine one of the same size does not, and some people want that heft. Everything else is noise. Care is the same as for any sealed timber furniture: wipe rather than soak, mats under hot dishes, and keep pieces out of unfiltered afternoon sun. The structure underneath will outlast your interest in the colour, which is the most anyone should ask of a frame. Bristol Pine Queen Bed Frame [products-of-collection collection="liverpool" heading="Pine Framed, Oak Veneered" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-pine-2"] Frequently Asked Questions How much of Cedora's range is pine? Pine appears in 105 of the 128 pieces currently in the range, across six of the eight collections. Only Byron and Oxford contain no pine at all. In every one of those 105 pieces it is structural rather than the visible finish. Is pine furniture strong enough for a bed frame? Yes, and it is the standard choice for one. Pine is stable, holds a fixing well and is light enough that a queen frame can be moved by two people. Cedora's London, Manchester and Bristol bed frames all use a solid pine structure with a slat base. Does pine dent more easily than oak? It does. Pine is softer, so it takes a dent where a harder timber would take a scratch. It matters on a surface and barely matters on a frame, which is why Cedora paints it, tops it or veneers it rather than leaving it exposed. Which Cedora ranges have no pine? Byron and Oxford. Both are built from solid acacia, with an MDF back panel on the sideboards and TV units. Everything else in the catalogue has pine somewhere inside it. Why is painted pine cheaper than solid hardwood? Because the money goes where it does work. A painted frame does not need the grain of an expensive board, so the budget moves to the parts you see and touch. That is the trade behind most of the price gap between ranges. Related Posts Solid Wood vs Veneer vs MDF: Which Furniture Is Best for You? 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Upholstered headboard bed frame in a country bedroom, one of four similar looking white bedroom ranges
bed frames Five Cedora Bedroom Ranges, and the Numbers That Actually Separate Them
April 05, 2026

Put the Cedora bedroom ranges in a row and the confusion is understandable. Five of them sell the same list: a bed frame, a two drawer bedside, a five drawer tallboy, a six drawer chest and a mirror. Four of the five are white, and every one of them is 45cm deep in the case pieces and 140cm wide in the chest. On a product grid, four of them are versions of the same photograph. The fifth, Liverpool, is the one that looks different and is built to the same grid underneath. Three numbers decide the whole thing: what the headboard is made of, how much fits in the drawers, and how much floor the bed takes. Everything else is preference. Key Takeaways Five bedroom ranges, not four. Liverpool is the one in bare timber rather than paint. Headboards differ completely: panelled, slatted or upholstered. Only London and Manchester offer beds with drawers, and they sit in the footboard. Liverpool has the largest drawer interiors, Newcastle the smallest, in identical cabinets. Bristol's queen frame is the narrowest at 162.4cm; Liverpool's is the widest at 171cm. Start With the Headboard, Because It Is All You See From the Door This is the only difference visible from three metres away, and it is the one people notice for years. London and Manchester both use a panelled timber headboard, 120cm tall, with moulded edges and a plinth base. It is the Hamptons answer: formal, symmetrical, and it makes a bed look like a piece of architecture rather than a mattress on legs. Bristol uses a slatted headboard instead. Vertical timber slats with air between them, which reads as Scandinavian and, more usefully, does not visually block the wall behind it. In a small room or a room with a window near the bedhead, that transparency is worth more than it sounds. Two ranges upholster. Newcastle sets a fabric panel inside a curved painted surround at 123.5cm, and the Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Natural sets one inside a bare timber frame at 125cm and repeats it at the foot of the bed. Those are the two you can lean back against for an hour, which matters if the bed doubles as the place you read or work. Range Headboard Height Style London Panelled timber 120cm Classic Hamptons Manchester Panelled timber 120cm Classic Hamptons Bristol Slatted timber 120cm Scandinavian Newcastle Upholstered fabric, painted frame 123.5cm French Provincial Liverpool Upholstered fabric, timber frame 125cm Contemporary Scandinavian Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Natural Then Ask Whether You Want Drawers in the Bed This cuts the field to two immediately. Only London and Manchester offer a bed with storage, in all three sizes, and in both cases the two drawers sit in the footboard and pull out toward the end of the bed rather than along the sides. That detail is the reason they work in Australian bedrooms at all. A side-opening drawer needs a clear run of floor beside the bed, which most rooms with a robe on one wall simply do not have. A footboard drawer needs the walkway at the end, which every room has. London's drawers are 43.7cm deep and 24.9cm high inside, Manchester's 43cm and 25.9cm. Bristol, Newcastle and Liverpool are plain frames only. That is not a gap so much as a different plan: Bristol's base sits 30cm off the floor and leaves the whole area underneath open, which takes storage boxes on castors that can be pulled from whichever side is actually free. If you rearrange rooms, that flexibility beats a fixed drawer. Manchester Pine Queen Bed Frame with 2 Drawers [products-of-collection collection="hamptons-bedroom-furniture" heading="Beds With Footboard Storage" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-bed4-1"] Then Measure Your Floor, Not Your Mattress A queen mattress is 153cm wide in every one of these beds. What changes is the frame around it, and the spread is wider than you would expect. Bristol's queen is 162.4cm, Newcastle's 164cm, London and Manchester 169cm, Liverpool 171cm. That is 8.6cm between the narrowest and the widest for exactly the same sleeping surface. In a large main bedroom the difference is invisible. In a three by three and a half metre second bedroom, which describes an enormous share of Australian housing, nearly nine centimetres is the gap between walking past the end of the bed and turning sideways to do it. Measure the floor and work backwards. Liverpool is also the longest at 224cm, another 5cm over Bristol. The tallboys run the other way. Liverpool's is 100cm tall, Bristol's 110cm, Manchester's and Newcastle's 114cm, London's 120cm, all on the same 100 x 45cm footprint. A lower tallboy keeps the sense of height in a small room and gives you a surface you can actually see the top of. Range Queen frame Tallboy height Bed with drawers Bristol 162.4 x 215.5cm 110cm No Newcastle 164 x 219cm 114cm No Manchester 169 x 219cm 114cm Yes London 169 x 218.1cm 120cm Yes Liverpool 171 x 224cm 100cm No The Drawer Volume Nobody Thinks to Compare Every one of these ranges sells a six drawer chest measuring exactly W140 x D45 x H85cm. Identical outside. Inside, the drawers vary by more than half in volume, and nothing on the shelf tells you which is which. Liverpool's chest drawers are 63.1cm wide, 36.9cm deep and 24.6cm high. Newcastle's are 62.35 x 37.8 x 16cm. That 8.6cm of height is the difference between a stack of folded jumpers sitting flat and the same stack stopping the drawer from closing. The reason is styling: Newcastle's shaped fronts and curved carcass take their volume from the inside, while Liverpool's flat fronts give it all back. The bedside tables tell the same story in miniature. Liverpool's drawers are 46.4 x 36.9 x 22.5cm, Bristol's 42.5 x 37 x 19.2cm, Newcastle's 42.6 x 34.7 x 15.1cm. If storage is genuinely why you are buying, this is the table to read rather than the price list. Range Chest drawer (W x D x H) Bedside drawer Tallboy lower drawer Liverpool 63.1 x 36.9 x 24.6cm 46.4 x 36.9 x 22.5cm 86.4cm wide, 22.5cm high Bristol 62.5 x 37 x 20.3cm 42.5 x 37 x 19.2cm 87.5cm wide, 20.8cm high Manchester 59 x 37 x 20.6cm 37.5 x 37 x 18.6cm 81.5cm wide, 22.5cm high London 59 x 38.3 x 19.1cm 35.5 x 38.3 x 17.5cm 80.5cm wide, 22.5cm high Newcastle 62.35 x 37.8 x 16cm 42.6 x 34.7 x 15.1cm 87.6cm wide, 18.5cm high Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest What They Are Actually Made Of All five use pine structurally, and they differ entirely in how much of any timber you get to see. London and Manchester are a solid pine structure finished in crisp white, top to bottom. There is no exposed grain anywhere in either range. Bristol splits the difference: a solid oak top on a painted pine carcass, so every horizontal surface you put something on is hardwood and everything else is paint. Newcastle lists a pine and acacia structure with a solid acacia headboard frame, all painted, with the fabric panel over the headboard. The acacia is real and you will never see it. Liverpool is the one that is not painted at all: a pine frame carrying a genuine oak veneer, in a natural oak tone or black. It is the only range here where the timber is the finish rather than something underneath it, which is also why it is the one that does not disappear into a white room. The Shortlist, One Paragraph Each Buy Bristol if the room is small and painted furniture suits it. Narrowest bed, lowest of the painted tallboys, roomiest drawers of the four white ranges, and an oak top where you actually put things. Buy London or Manchester if you want a bed that looks like a proper piece of furniture and you need storage in it. They are close enough that the honest tiebreakers are price and small drawer differences. Manchester sits slightly cheaper across most pieces. Buy Newcastle if you want the curves and the upholstered headboard in a painted frame, and the room has the height and light to carry them. Go in knowing the drawers are the shallowest of the five. Buy Liverpool if you want visible timber rather than paint, the largest drawers of any range here, and a fabric headboard without the Provincial styling. It is the widest bed at 171cm and the lowest tallboy at 100cm, so it wants width more than it wants height. [products-of-collection collection="bedroom" heading="All Cedora Bedroom Furniture" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-bed4-2"] Frequently Asked Questions Which Cedora bedroom range has the largest drawers? Liverpool. Its chest drawers are 63.1cm wide, 36.9cm deep and 24.6cm high inside, and its bedside drawers 22.5cm high. Bristol leads the four painted ranges at 20.3cm, and Newcastle has the smallest at 16cm, all in chests of identical external size. Which Cedora bed frames come with storage drawers? Only London and Manchester. Both offer double, queen and king with or without two drawers built into the footboard. Bristol, Newcastle and Liverpool are sold as plain frames. Which Cedora bedroom beds have an upholstered headboard? Newcastle and Liverpool. Newcastle sets a fabric panel inside a curved painted surround at 123.5cm. Liverpool sets one inside a bare timber frame at 125cm and repeats it on the footboard. London and Manchester are panelled timber, Bristol is slatted. Which range suits a small bedroom? Bristol. Its queen frame is 162.4cm wide against 169cm for London and Manchester and 171cm for Liverpool, and its tallboy is 110cm. Liverpool's tallboy is lower again at 100cm, so in a room where height is the problem rather than width, that is the one to look at. Are all five ranges the same material? No. London and Manchester are a solid pine structure, painted. Bristol is a solid oak top on a painted pine carcass. Newcastle is pine and acacia, painted. Liverpool is a pine frame with an oak veneer and is the only one not painted at all. Related Posts Six Centimetres Narrower: the Bristol Collection in a Small Bedroom Two Cedora Beds Have a Fabric Headboard. Only Newcastle Paints the Frame. Fifteen Drawers in One Bedroom: How the Manchester Collection Adds Up Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.

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