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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The French Provincial range is the only genuinely decorated furniture in this catalogue. Everything else runs to straight edges and flat fronts. These eight pieces have bowed drawer fronts, curved legs that scroll at the foot, shaped aprons and an arched headboard, and they look like they came from a different century than the rest of the store. Which raises a fair question if you are shopping on measurements: does all that shape cost you anything practical? It does, and the number is about eight centimetres. Here is where it goes. Key Takeaways Eight pieces, all bedroom, and no dining or living furniture in the range at all. The chest is 140 x 45 x 85cm and the tallboy 100 x 45 x 114cm, both standard. Chest drawers are 16cm deep inside, the shallowest in the catalogue by 8.6cm. The bedside table is 64.4cm tall, taller than any other bedside here. Every case piece is a painted frame with a timber top and dark bail handles. Eight Pieces, One Room, and That Is the Whole Range The list is short. Three bed sizes, one bedside table, one chest, one tallboy, one mirror, and the chest and mirror offered together as a set. That is the complete French Provincial offering, and unlike most ranges here it does not stretch into the dining room or the living room at any point. The Newcastle Acacia Queen Bed Frame sets the tone: a painted frame with an arched top, an upholstered headboard panel and shaped legs that curve out at the foot. There is a double and a king built the same way, all standing 123.5cm at the headboard. Everything else follows the bed. The Newcastle Acacia 2 Drawer Bedside Table, the Newcastle Acacia 6 Drawer Chest and the Newcastle Acacia 5 Drawer Tallboy all carry a timber top over a painted frame, bowed drawer fronts, dark bail handles and the same curved legs. It is the most internally consistent range in the catalogue. Newcastle Acacia 2 Drawer Bedside Table The Boxes Are Exactly Standard Here is what surprises people who compare on paper. For all the shaping, the chest is 140cm wide, 45cm deep and 85cm high, which is the identical footprint of every other six drawer chest in the catalogue. The tallboy is 100 x 45 x 114cm, matching two other ranges to the centimetre. The mirror is a 100cm square. That is genuinely useful information. It means a French Provincial chest drops into the exact space a plain modern chest occupies, so you can swap one for the other without re measuring the wall, and you can put this chest in a room where the rest of the furniture came from somewhere else and it will line up. It also means the usual planning numbers apply. Forty five centimetres out from the wall, 140cm along it for the chest, one metre for the tallboy. The curves live inside those dimensions rather than adding to them, because the shaped legs tuck under the carcass rather than splaying past it. Newcastle Acacia 6 Drawer Chest [products-of-collection collection="french-provincial-furniture" heading="Shop the French Provincial Range" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-provincial-1"] But the Drawers Are the Shallowest in the Catalogue This is where the decoration is paid for. The chest drawers measure 62.35 x 37.8 x 16cm inside. Sixteen centimetres is the shallowest drawer in any chest here, and the deepest range in the catalogue runs 24.6cm. Same outside dimensions, 8.6cm less depth inside every one of the six drawers. The tallboy tells the same story at 18.5cm across all five drawers, where comparable tallboys run 20.8cm to 22.5cm. The bedside drawers are 15.1cm. Nothing here is broken, it is simply that a bowed front, a thicker shaped carcass and a decorative apron under the bottom drawer all take their space from somewhere, and that somewhere is inside. In practice a 16cm drawer takes folded t-shirts, underwear, socks and anything flat, and it flattens a chunky jumper into a pancake. If your winter storage is knitwear rather than shirts, plan on the chest holding perhaps two thirds of what a flat fronted chest of the same size would. That is the honest trade for the way it looks. Newcastle Acacia 5 Drawer Tallboy The Bedside Table Is the Tallest One Here At 64.4cm the Newcastle bedside is the tallest in the catalogue. The others land between 55.9cm and 60cm, so this one stands roughly 5cm proud of the pack, and that is a number worth checking against your own bed before ordering. Most mattress tops in Australian bedrooms finish between 55cm and 65cm off the floor once the base and the mattress are stacked. Against a traditional base with a deep mattress, 64.4cm is close to perfect: the surface sits level with where your hand naturally lands. Against a low platform bed at 45cm, it will loom. The two drawers are 42.6 x 34.7 x 15.1cm, so the same shallow rule applies. That is fine for a bedside, where the contents are a book, a charger, hand cream and the blister pack of paracetamol nobody admits to. Bedside drawers are the one place in the house where shallow is the correct answer. The Mirror Finishes It, and It Sits Rather Than Hangs The Newcastle Acacia Mirror is 100 x 100cm and 5cm deep, framed in the same white with a shaped and scrolled crown across the top. It is built to pair with the chest, which is why the two are also sold together as the Newcastle Acacia 6 Drawer Chest with Mirror. Resting on an 85cm chest, the top of that mirror lands at 185cm, and the bottom of the glass at 85cm. It is a face and torso mirror rather than a full length one, which is what a bedroom mirror above a chest is actually used for while you are putting earrings in at seven in the morning. The shaped crown is the detail that makes the range read as period rather than merely painted. It is also the reason to leave clear wall above the chest: a mirror with a decorative top set 15cm below a picture rail looks cramped in a way a plain rectangle would not. Newcastle Acacia Mirror Who the Range Is Actually For Period homes, first. In a Federation or interwar bedroom with high ceilings, deep skirtings and a picture rail, this furniture matches the architecture instead of arguing with it, and the curved legs stop the room reading as a box full of rectangles. In a plain modern bedroom it still works, but the rule changes: buy one piece, not the set. A single shaped chest against a flat white wall reads as a deliberate choice. The full set in a new build bedroom with square skirting and a flush door starts to look like a stage set, because there is nothing in the room for the detail to answer to. The other thing it needs is air. Shaped legs and a scrolled apron only exist to be seen, so a piece jammed into an alcove with 3cm either side has given up most of what it is for. Give the French Provincial range a wall it can be looked at from across the room, and the shallower drawers stop mattering. Frequently Asked Questions What is in the French Provincial range? Eight pieces, all bedroom: three bed sizes, a two drawer bedside table, a six drawer chest, a five drawer tallboy, a mirror, and the chest and mirror sold together as a set. There is no dining or living furniture in it at all. What are the dimensions of the French Provincial chest and tallboy? The chest is 140 x 45 x 85cm and the tallboy is 100 x 45 x 114cm, which are exactly the dimensions every other chest and tallboy in the catalogue uses. Despite the shaped fronts and curved legs, these pieces occupy standard footprints. Why are the drawers shallower than other ranges? Because the bowed front and the shaped apron take their space from inside. The chest drawers are 16cm high internally against 24.6cm in the deepest range here, so the same 85cm tall cabinet holds noticeably less than a flat fronted one. How tall is the French Provincial bedside table? 64.4cm, which is the tallest bedside table in the catalogue. Everything else sits between 55.9cm and 60cm. Against a high mattress that extra height is useful, and against a low platform bed it will stand noticeably proud of the mattress top. Does French Provincial furniture suit a modern house? It can, but it needs space around it. The shaped legs and curved fronts read best with room to be seen, so a piece pushed into a tight alcove loses everything you paid for. In a plain modern bedroom, one piece works better than a full set. Related Posts The Newcastle Collection The Tallboy Holds Nearly as Much as a Chest 40cm Wider 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.
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.
Acacia is the timber people ask about most and understand least. It turns up in the same sentence as oak and teak, it costs a fraction of either, and the usual explanation stops at "durable hardwood" without ever answering the question a buyer actually has, which is what it will look like in their house in five years. Cedora uses it in thirty-one pieces across three ranges. On twenty-three of them the acacia is what you see and touch. On the other eight it is inside the furniture, painted over, and you would never know it was there. Those are two genuinely different purchases, and it is worth knowing which one you are making. Key Takeaways Thirty-one acacia pieces: Byron twelve, Oxford eleven, Newcastle eight. Byron and Oxford show the timber. Newcastle paints over it. Every acacia top is solid. Sideboards and TV units carry an MDF back panel. Byron paints everything but the tops. Oxford carries timber onto door fronts too. Cedora's own Acacia Furniture collection excludes Newcastle, for exactly that reason. Why a Furniture Maker Reaches for Acacia Acacia is dense, it is farmed rather than slow-grown, and it arrives with a grain that is anything but uniform. Boards vary from pale honey to a warmer caramel, often across the same tabletop, and the figure runs in short interlocked passages rather than the long straight lines of oak. It is the opposite of a calm timber. That variability is the whole point commercially. A busy grain forgives, which matters more in a family home than any hardness rating printed on a spec sheet. A cup ring, a fork scrape, the mark a hot plate leaves through a thin tea towel: on a flat pale surface each of those events is an incident, and on acacia most of them simply disappear into the pattern within a week or two. The trade is that you cannot control the look. Two Oxford tables from the same production run will not match board for board, and if you are the sort of person who wants furniture to arrive exactly as photographed, that will bother you. If you would rather your dining table look lived in on purpose than worn out by accident, it is the right timber. Byron: Acacia on Top, White Everywhere Else The twelve Byron pieces follow one rule. The top is solid acacia, everything holding it up is painted white. The Byron Acacia Dining Table 190cm at W1900 x D900 x H760 (mm) is the clearest example: a warm timber plane floating on a frame that visually disappears against a pale wall. It is a deliberate piece of restraint. In a room with a lot of natural light, which describes most Australian living areas facing a garden or a deck, a full timber setting can read heavy by mid-afternoon. Splitting the piece into a timber surface and a white structure keeps the warmth at eye level, where you sit and eat, and takes the weight out of everything below the table line. The same logic runs through the Byron Acacia 3 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard at W1600 x D450 x H860 (mm) and the Byron Acacia Coffee Table. White carcass, timber top, and an MDF back panel on the sideboard and TV unit that sits against the wall where nothing touches it. Byron Acacia 3 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard Oxford: the Timber Goes Further Oxford runs the same combination but does not stop at the top. On the Oxford Acacia 4 Door 1 Drawer Sideboard, W180 x D45 x H85cm, the acacia carries down onto the door fronts, so the timber occupies most of the piece and the white becomes a frame around it. Stand the two sideboards side by side and Byron reads as painted furniture with a timber top, Oxford as timber furniture in a painted case. Oxford also runs larger. The sideboard and the Oxford Acacia TV Unit are both 180cm wide against Byron's 160cm, and the Oxford Acacia Console Table stretches to W150 x D36 x H76cm, which is unusually long and unusually shallow. Thirty-six centimetres is narrow enough for a hallway people still have to walk down. The dining tables are the 190cm at W190 x D90 x H76cm and the 240cm at W240 x D100 x H76cm, seating six and eight. Chairs come in pairs as the Oxford Acacia Dining Chair Set of 2, W46.8 x D55 x H88.7cm, with an upholstered seat on a white timber frame. Oxford Acacia 4 Door 1 Drawer Sideboard [products-of-collection collection="acacia-furniture" heading="Acacia Furniture at Cedora" limit="12" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-acacia-1"] Newcastle: the Acacia You Never See The eight Newcastle pieces list acacia too, and this is where a buyer can be caught out. The bed frames are recorded as a solid acacia headboard with a pine and acacia structure, and the case pieces as a pine and acacia structure. Every one of them is painted white, and on the beds the headboard panel is upholstered in fabric on top of that. There is no visible timber anywhere in the range. That is not a problem, but it does change what you are buying. In Byron and Oxford you are paying for acacia as a finish, and the timber is doing the aesthetic work. In Newcastle you are paying for it as a structure, and the aesthetic work is being done by the shape: curved fronts, moulded edges, shaped legs. Judge Newcastle on its silhouette, because that is what you will actually see. Cedora's own Newcastle chest sits in the French Provincial and bedroom collections rather than the Acacia Furniture one, which is the correct call. If you searched the store for acacia and expected Newcastle to appear, that is why it did not. Newcastle Acacia 6 Drawer Chest Living With Acacia in an Australian House Three things actually matter, and none of them are complicated. Heat is the first: acacia takes daily use well and takes a hot pan badly, so a mat under anything straight off the stove is the whole of the maintenance routine for most households. Standing water is the second, and the answer is to wipe rather than to leave it, particularly around the join lines where boards meet. Sun is the third and the one people underestimate here. A table parked in unfiltered afternoon light through a west-facing window will lighten unevenly over a couple of summers, and the part shaded by a fruit bowl will stay darker than the rest. Sheer curtains solve it, moving the bowl occasionally solves it, and doing neither means living with a pale rectangle you will notice forever. What you do not need is oil, polish, or a maintenance schedule. These pieces arrive sealed and the finish is not something you top up. A damp cloth and the occasional dry one covers it, and the grain handles the rest by being too busy to hold a grudge. Oxford Acacia Console Table Which Range Suits Which Room If the acacia is the reason you are here, that narrows it to twenty-three pieces and a fairly clean split. Byron suits a room where you want warmth at table height and lightness everywhere else, which is most apartments and most open-plan living areas where the furniture has to share a floor with a sofa. It also runs to a 160cm dining table, the smallest in the group, which matters in a compact space. Oxford suits a room with a wall to fill. The 180cm case pieces and the door-front timber give it more presence, and in a larger dining room or a hallway with a proper run of wall it holds its ground where a lighter piece would look lost. Both ranges cover dining and living. Neither covers a bedroom. Newcastle is the answer only if what you want is the Provincial shape, and the acacia is incidental. Buy it for the curves, the upholstered headboard and the painted finish, and treat the timber inside as what it is: the structure doing its job quietly, where nobody sees it. All three ranges list acacia on the spec sheet, but only the Acacia Furniture pieces are really about the wood. Frequently Asked Questions How many acacia pieces does Cedora make? Thirty-one across three ranges: twelve in Byron, eleven in Oxford and eight in Newcastle. On the twenty-three Byron and Oxford pieces the acacia is the surface you see. On the eight Newcastle pieces it is structural and painted over. Is Cedora's acacia furniture solid timber? The tops are solid acacia. The frames on Byron and Oxford are painted, and the sideboards and TV units in both ranges carry an MDF back panel, which sits against the wall. Every surface you set something down on is solid timber. What is the difference between Byron and Oxford acacia? Mostly where the timber stops. Byron puts acacia on the tops and paints the rest. Oxford carries it further, including onto the sideboard door fronts. Oxford also runs to larger case pieces at 180cm wide against Byron's 160cm. Does acacia furniture mark easily? Less than most pale timbers, because the grain is busy and varied enough to absorb small marks rather than frame them. Heat and standing water are the real risks, so use a mat under anything straight off the stove and wipe spills rather than leaving them. Why is Newcastle not in the Acacia Furniture collection? Because you cannot see the timber. The Acacia Furniture collection groups the pieces where acacia is the visible finish, which is Byron and Oxford. Newcastle's acacia sits inside a painted frame and behind an upholstered headboard. Related Posts What Is Acacia Wood Furniture? 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