Six centimetres sounds like nothing until you are the person turning sideways to get past the end of the bed every morning. In a bedroom of three by three and a half metres, which describes an enormous number of second bedrooms and inner-city apartments in this country, six centimetres is the difference between a walkway and a squeeze. That is where the Bristol range earns its place. Eight pieces, a narrower bed than anything else Cedora makes, and, oddly, the roomiest drawers of the lot. Here is how the numbers actually fall. Key Takeaways The queen frame is 162.4cm wide, roughly six centimetres narrower than London or Manchester. No drawer version. Three plain frames, with the base sitting 30cm off the floor. Chest drawers are 62.5 x 37 x 20.3cm, the largest in any Cedora bedroom range. Solid oak top on a painted pine structure, with a slatted headboard and curved base. Eight pieces total, the smallest bedroom range alongside Newcastle. Where the Six Centimetres Comes From The Bristol Pine Queen Bed Frame measures W162.4 x D215.5cm. The double is W147.4 x D204.5cm and the king W192.4 x D215.5cm. Every headboard stands 120cm from the floor. A queen mattress is 153cm wide no matter whose frame it sits in, so the difference between one brand's queen bed and another is entirely the rails and the side profile. Bristol keeps that overhang to about nine and a half centimetres total. Wider frames in the same category run to sixteen. You get the same sleeping surface and you give back the difference to the floor, which is the only measurement that matters when the room is tight. The other number is the base height: 30cm from the floor to the top of the bed base. That leaves the space beneath open and honest. Flat storage boxes on castors slide under it, and unlike a fixed drawer they can be pulled from whichever side of the bed is actually free in your room. No Drawer Version, and Why That Is Not a Gap Two of Cedora's bedroom ranges offer beds with built-in drawers. Bristol does not, and if you came looking for one it is worth understanding what you are trading before you write the range off. A built-in drawer bed is heavier, costs more, and fixes the storage in place at the foot or the side of the frame. The Bristol approach leaves 30cm of clear air under the whole bed. In a small room that turns out to be more usable, not less, because the storage is not committed to one position. Suitcases go under it. Boxes go under it. A vacuum head reaches under it, which stops being true of most storage beds within a year. It is also why the frame is lighter to move, and small bedrooms get rearranged far more often than big ones. If you are furnishing a room you may reconfigure, the plain frame is not the compromise. It is the flexible option, and the storage lives in the case pieces instead. The Drawers That Do Not Match the Bed Here is the part that surprises people. The bed is the narrowest in the catalogue, but the Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest has the biggest drawers. Each of the six measures 62.5cm wide, 37cm deep and 20.3cm high inside, in a chest with exactly the same W140 x D45 x H85cm footprint that Cedora's other chests use. Nothing about the outside tells you that. The gain is in the internal engineering, and it works out at meaningfully more volume per drawer than the Hamptons ranges manage on the same wall space. If you are choosing between bedroom ranges on how much actually fits, and most people should be, that is the comparison worth making. The Bristol Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy follows the same logic. W100 x D45 x H110cm, five drawers, all of them 20.8cm high inside: two narrow ones at 42.5cm across the top, three at 87.5cm below. Uniform drawer height sounds dull and is quietly useful, because you never have to remember which drawer the thick jumpers fit in. [products-of-collection collection="bristol" heading="Shop the Bristol Collection" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-bristol-1"] The Bedside, and the 110cm Ceiling on the Tallboy The Bristol Pine 2 Drawer Bedside Table is W55 x D45 x H60cm with two drawers at 42.5cm wide and 19.2cm high inside. Sixty centimetres is the height worth measuring against your own mattress, because a bedside that lands near the top of the mattress is one you can reach a glass of water from without groping below the level of the bed. The tallboy at 110cm is the lowest in the catalogue, and in a small bedroom that is deliberate rather than mean. A tall chest in a narrow room reads as a wall, and it puts the top surface above the eye line of anyone sitting on the bed. At 110cm the top is a usable shelf and the room keeps its sense of height, which matters far more in three metres of wall than it does in five. Both pieces carry the range's two signatures: a solid oak top and a gently curved base rather than a squared plinth. The curve lifts the piece visually off the floor, and in a room where the furniture is close together that small gap under each item is what stops the whole lot reading as one continuous block. Oak on Top, Pine Underneath, and Saying So The material is a solid oak top on a solid pine structure, with the frame painted white. That is worth stating plainly because oak is a word that gets stretched. Bristol is not solid oak furniture. The oak is on the surfaces you see and put things on, the pine does the structural work underneath, and the price reflects exactly that. What the combination gives you is the part of oak you actually experience. Grain you can see across a chest top in morning light, a surface hard enough to take a lamp base being dragged across it, and a warm break against the white that keeps a small white room from looking clinical. Paying for solid oak in the parts nobody sees would change the price a great deal and the daily experience not at all. Alongside that, the Bristol Pine Mirror is 100 x 100cm and 5cm deep, and there is a Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest with Mirror if you want the pair as one purchase. In a small bedroom a square metre of mirror is not decoration, it is the cheapest way to make the far corner of the room usable in the afternoon. Who the Bristol Range Is Actually For It suits the room you are working around rather than the room you designed. Second bedrooms. Apartments where the robe eats one wall and the window eats another. Rentals where you would rather buy furniture that moves easily than furniture that commits. The Bristol range is the smallest of Cedora's four bedroom collections at eight pieces, and that constraint is doing you a favour: there is nothing here to overbuy. Where it is the wrong answer is a large main bedroom that you want to feel furnished and formal. The slatted headboard and the pale, light frame are quiet by design, and quiet in a big room reads as underfurnished. That room wants panelling and weight, which is what the Hamptons ranges are for. If you are deciding between all four, the honest shortcut is this: measure the wall, not the mattress. Bristol wins on tight floor plans and drawer volume. The others win on presence. Both are legitimate reasons to buy a bed, and only one of them is visible in a photograph. Frequently Asked Questions How wide is a Bristol queen bed frame? 162.4cm wide and 215.5cm long, with the headboard standing 120cm from the floor. That is about six centimetres narrower than Cedora's London and Manchester queen frames, which both measure 169cm. Do Bristol bed frames come with storage drawers? No. Bristol is offered as three plain frames in double, queen and king. The base sits 30cm off the floor, so the space underneath is open and takes flat storage boxes on castors if you need it. What timber is the Bristol range made from? A solid oak top on a solid pine structure, with the frame painted white. The oak is the surface you touch and see. It is not solid oak throughout, and it is not priced as though it were. How big are the Bristol chest drawers? Each of the six drawers is 62.5cm wide, 37cm deep and 20.3cm high inside. That beats the London, Manchester and Newcastle chests, which share the same 140 x 45cm footprint, though the Liverpool chest goes deeper again at 24.6cm. Is Bristol Hamptons or Scandinavian? Scandinavian. The headboard is slatted rather than panelled, the base curves gently instead of sitting on a plinth, and the oak top is left visible. Cedora's Hamptons bedroom ranges are London and Manchester. 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