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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.

Australian bedrooms are storage poor and nobody warns you. Older homes have a single robe with one shelf and a hanging rail. Newer builds hand you a walk-in that turns out to be a corridor with hangers. Either way the overflow ends up in the same three places: on a chair, under the bed in a shopping bag, and in a plastic tub in the garage. The Manchester range answers that arithmetically. One of each piece gives a bedroom fifteen drawers, in four distinct sizes, each of which is genuinely suited to different things. Here is what each one measures and what it will actually hold. Key Takeaways Fifteen drawers total: two in the bed, two in the bedside, five in the tallboy, six in the chest. Under bed drawers are 43cm deep and 25.9cm high, opening at the foot of the bed. Tallboy stands 114cm tall on a 100cm footprint, chest is 85cm tall and 140cm wide. Every case piece is 45cm deep, so they line up on one wall. Solid pine structure, crisp white finish, panelled fronts and round silver handles. Two in the Bed, Costing You No Floor Space The Manchester Pine Queen Bed Frame with 2 Drawers carries its two drawers in the footboard, so they pull out toward the end of the bed instead of along the sides. That is the difference between storage you use and storage you gave up on, because the walkway at the foot of the bed is space every bedroom already has, while 60cm of clear floor down one side is space most do not. Inside, each drawer is 43cm deep and 25.9cm high. The queen drawers are 70cm wide and the king drawers 85cm. The bases are lined, which matters more than it sounds: a lined drawer under a bed does not sand the finish off folded clothing every time it rolls in and out. What fits is flat, seasonal and infrequent. Spare sheet sets. Beach towels between December and March. The winter layers you will not touch until May. What does not fit is anything with loft, so do not plan on hiding a spare doona in there and then feeling cheated. All three sizes come both ways. If the linen already has a home, the plain double and king frames keep the footboard lower and the room visually quieter. If it does not, the double with drawers is the version that buys back a cupboard, and in a second bedroom or a kid's room that cupboard is usually the one you needed. Two Beside the Bed, and What They Are Really For The Manchester Pine 2 Drawer Bedside Table is W55 x D45 x H60cm, with two drawers measuring 37.5cm wide, 37cm deep and 18.6cm high inside. That is not a lot of volume, and it is not meant to be. A bedside drawer is the fastest storage in the house to fill with things you never look at again, which is why two shallow ones beat one deep one. The 60cm height is the number worth checking before you buy. It wants to land somewhere near the top of your mattress so that reaching a glass of water at two in the morning does not involve groping around below the level of the bed. Most mattress and base combinations land between 55cm and 65cm, so 60cm sits comfortably in the middle. Two drawers rather than an open shelf is also a decision about who sees your bedroom. A shelf puts the charger cable, the blister pack and the hair ties on permanent display. A drawer takes all of it and gives you back a clear surface for a lamp and one book. Five in the Tallboy, Stacked Upward The Manchester Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy is W100 x D45 x H114cm. Two narrow drawers sit across the top at 38cm wide and 19.9cm high, then three full width drawers at 81.5cm wide and 22.5cm high. The split is the useful part. The small top pair takes socks, underwear, belts and the things that disappear into a big drawer forever, while the three below take folded jumpers and denim. The height is worth noting against your room. At 114cm the tallboy clears most bedside heights and still passes under a standard window sill, which is what lets it go in the awkward metre of wall between a window and a door frame that no other piece of furniture fits. A metre of wall for five drawers is the best exchange rate in the range. The trade-off is the top surface. At 114cm it is above eye line for anyone sitting down and just below eye line standing, so it works for a plant and a tray, not for a mirror and a morning routine. If you want a surface to get ready at, you want the chest instead. [products-of-collection collection="manchester" heading="Shop the Manchester Collection" limit="12" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-manchester-1"] Six in the Chest, Spread Sideways The Manchester Pine 6 Drawer Chest is W140 x D45 x H85cm with six drawers, each 59cm wide, 37cm deep and 20.6cm high. Six drawers of one consistent size is a different proposition to the tallboy: nothing is sized for small items, so this is the piece for clothing in volume, plus the linen that has nowhere else to go. The 85cm height is the real reason to choose it. That is bench height, which turns the top into the place a lamp lives, where the tray for keys and a watch sits, and where the folded washing waits for two days before anyone puts it away. In a bedroom that has to do the job of a dressing room, that surface earns more than the sixth drawer does. The cost is wall. At 140cm it needs a genuinely empty run, and the moment you add the Manchester Pine Mirror above it you are committing that wall permanently. Worth measuring before you fall for it, because a chest in the wrong spot blocks a robe door and there is no fixing that afterwards. The Mirror, and the Cheapest Fix for a Dark Room The mirror is 100 x 100cm and only 5cm deep, framed in the same white with the same moulded detailing. It attaches to the top of the chest or hangs on its own, and if you want the two as a single purchase there is a Manchester Pine 6 Drawer Chest With Mirror. There is a reason the mirror belongs in this range in particular. A bedroom carrying fifteen drawers is a bedroom carrying a lot of closed timber, and closed timber absorbs a room. Hang a square metre of glass above the chest and half of that mass reads as depth instead of bulk. It is the one piece here that gives space back rather than taking it, which is why it is worth buying at the same time as the chest and not two years later. It also does the job the range is quietly built around. The Manchester pieces are white on purpose, not because white is fashionable but because a room with fifteen drawers in it can very easily read as a wall of furniture. White, with panelled fronts that break the surface into smaller shapes, keeps a heavily furnished bedroom feeling lighter than it has any right to. What Fifteen Drawers Costs in Floor Space Here is the honest maths before you buy the lot. Every case piece is 45cm deep, which is the number that matters in a narrow room, because 45cm out from the wall is what you lose. Along the wall, the chest takes 140cm, the tallboy 100cm and each bedside table 55cm. One of each, plus a pair of bedsides, needs roughly 4.7 metres of wall that is not already a door, a window or a robe. Most Australian bedrooms do not have that, and the answer is not to squeeze. It is to choose between the tallboy and the chest rather than buying both, which drops you to eleven or twelve drawers and about 3 metres of wall. The bed, the bedsides and one case piece is a complete bedroom, and it is the combination most rooms should be buying. Start with the bed and one storage piece, live with it for a season, and add the second only if you still need it. Furniture bought in that order almost never ends up in the garage, which is the fate of most of the plastic tubs it replaces. Frequently Asked Questions How many drawers are in the Manchester collection? Fifteen, if you buy one of each storage piece. Two in the footboard of the bed, two in the bedside table, five in the tallboy and six in the chest. Bought separately, each piece still works on its own. How big are the Manchester under bed drawers? Each drawer is 43cm deep and 25.9cm high inside. The queen drawers are 70cm wide and the king drawers 85cm wide. There are two on every bed frame that has them, and they pull out at the foot of the bed rather than the sides. Which is better, the Manchester tallboy or the chest? It depends on your wall, not your wardrobe. The tallboy is 100cm wide and 114cm tall. The chest is 140cm wide and 85cm tall and gives you a surface at hip height. If you have one long empty wall, take the chest. If all you have is a corner, take the tallboy. Is Manchester furniture solid timber? The structure is solid pine, finished in crisp white with panelled fronts, moulded edges and round silver handles. The bed frames use a slat base, so no separate bed base is needed. How much wall does a full Manchester bedroom need? Roughly 4.7 metres of wall in total, not counting the bed. The chest takes 140cm, the tallboy 100cm, and two bedside tables 55cm each. Every case piece is 45cm deep. Related Posts Why the London Collection Keeps Its Drawers at the Foot of the Bed Bedside Table Height Guide: The Perfect Rule for Your Bedroom Hamptons Bedroom Style: Create a Light Elegant Coastal Retreat Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.

Most furniture ranges are put together bedroom first, then stretched outward until something fits the dining room. Richmond runs the other way. Of the twenty seven pieces in the range, twelve are dining tables or complete settings and four are benches, the only dining benches Cedora makes. This is a look at how the range works room by room, what the timber actually is, and which table size suits which household. Key Takeaways Two table sizes: 190cm seats six, 240cm seats eight. The legs are solid oak, the structure behind them is pine. Richmond is the only Cedora range with dining benches, in 158cm and 208cm. Benches sit 300mm below the tabletop, so they tuck fully underneath. Every piece comes in Natural or Black except the end table, which is Natural only. Built Around the Table, Not Around a Look The construction stays the same the whole way through the range. The legs are solid oak, the structure behind them is pine, and every piece stands on a closed timber loop at each end instead of four separate posts. That one detail is what makes the range readable from across a room. The same shape repeats at table height, at bench height and again at coffee table height, so two pieces bought months apart still look like they arrived together. Know what that focus means before you start. Richmond will not furnish a bedroom. What it does cover is the dining room and the living areas beside it, which is the right trade if that part of the house is the part working hardest. The Richmond range extends outward from the table rather than trying to reach every room. It also means the range is easy to buy in stages. A household that starts with the table and two pairs of chairs can add the bench the following winter and the sideboard the year after, and nothing will look like an afterthought, because the leg frame and the timber do not change between pieces. That matters more than it sounds when a dining room is furnished on the budget of a family rather than the budget of a showroom. Two Table Sizes, Two Kinds of Household There are two tables and the gap between them is deliberate. The Richmond Pine Dining Table 190cm measures W1,900 x D900 x H760 (mm) and seats six, which suits a family of four with room for grandparents on a Sunday. The Richmond Pine Dining Table 240cm measures W2,400 x D1,000 x H760 (mm) and seats eight, the size you buy when the house has become the one everybody drives to. The extra 100mm of depth on the larger table matters more than the length does. At 1,000mm across you can run serving dishes down the centre and still leave every place setting its own space. Before you choose, measure the floor rather than the table, and leave enough clearance behind the chairs for someone to walk past while another person is seated. Four people who host twice a year should take the smaller table and keep the floor space. Anyone regularly setting eight places will tire of dragging in extra chairs, and the larger table pays for itself in the first summer of visitors. Richmond Pine Dining Table 190cm - Natural The Bench, and Why It Disappears The bench is the piece no other Cedora range has. It comes in two lengths matched to the two tables: the Richmond Pine Dining Bench 158cm at W1,580 x D400 x H460 (mm) seats up to three, and the Richmond Pine Dining Bench 208cm at W2,080 x D400 x H460 (mm) seats up to four. Both sit 300mm below the tabletop, which means they slide back under the table completely when lunch is finished. That is what changes a small dining room. On an ordinary Saturday the bench is pushed in and the floor reads as open again, with no chair backs breaking the sightline to the kitchen. Then somebody arrives without warning at midday, three children shuffle along and a fourth person fits on the end, which four separate chairs cannot do. The trade off is honest: a bench has no back, so long sittings get tiring, and most households run a bench down one side and chairs on the other. It also has a second life outside the dining room. At 400mm deep it sits along a hallway wall or under a window without narrowing the path past it, which makes it somewhere to put shoes on, or a surface for folded washing waiting to be carried through. Richmond Pine Dining Bench 208cm - Natural [products-of-collection collection="richmond" heading="Shop the Richmond Collection" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-richmond-1"] Chairs, or the Whole Setting in One Order Chairs are sold in pairs as the Richmond Pine Dining Chair Set of 2, measuring W510 x D620 x H880 (mm) each, with an upholstered seat and back on timber legs. Buying in twos is more useful than it sounds, because a dining room is rarely finished in one purchase. Four chairs cover most homes, and another pair goes in later when the household grows. If you would rather not assemble the room piece by piece, four settings are already matched and priced together. The 190cm table comes with six chairs, or with four chairs and the 158cm bench. The 240cm table comes with eight chairs, or with four chairs and the 208cm bench. Ordering the setting removes the two things that go wrong when pieces are bought separately: finishes that do not quite agree, and half the room arriving three weeks after the rest. One practical note. At 880mm to the top of the back, the chairs stand well above the 760mm table, so from the doorway you see chair backs before you see the table, and six of them in a small room is a lot of upright timber. That is why the bench settings suit narrow spaces, since half the seating drops out of the sightline. Richmond Pine Dining Table 190cm with 4 chairs & Bench 158cm - Natural [products-of-collection collection="dining-sets" heading="Dining Tables and Chairs Sold Together" limit="4" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-richmond-2"] What Sits Around the Table The storage pieces are built to the same width so the room lines up. The Richmond Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard is W1,600 x D450 x H650 (mm) and the Richmond Pine 2 Drawer TV Unit shares that 1,600mm width and 450mm depth at a lower H550 (mm). Where the dining and living areas share a wall, that repetition is what stops the room looking like two separate purchases pushed together. The sideboard is the piece that changes how the dining room runs. Three drawers take the cutlery, placemats and candles that otherwise live in the kitchen, and the cupboards take the serving dishes that come out four times a year. Setting the table stops being a trip back and forth, and the top becomes where the food waits while everyone sits down. The smaller pieces cover the gaps. The Richmond Pine 2 Drawer Console Table is W1,200 x D380x H825 (mm), shallow enough for a hallway people still walk down and tall enough to sit behind a sofa rather than beside it. The Richmond Pine Coffee Table at W1,200 x D600 x H450 (mm) carries the same closed leg frame as the dining table, and the Richmond Pine End Table, W550 x D500 x H550 (mm), is the one piece made in Natural only. Richmond Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard - Natural What the Timber Is, and Which Finish to Take It is worth being exact about the material, because oak is a word that gets used loosely. In Richmond the oak is in the legs, solid, where the load sits. The structure behind it is pine. This is not a solid oak slab and it is not priced like one, and knowing that before you buy beats discovering it after delivery. What the combination gives you is a table that takes daily use on the parts that get knocked, at a price a family can justify. The finish does more to a room than the size does. Natural keeps a small or south-facing space feeling open, since the timber carries light rather than absorbing it. Black draws the outline of the piece and gives a bright room something to settle on, which works well against pale floorboards. Because the shapes are identical across both, a black 240cm table with a natural sideboard reads as a decision, not an accident. The two finishes also age differently. Pine is softer than oak, so surfaces pick up the marks of a household that uses them, and black shows dust more readily than natural while hiding small dents better. If you want a table that still looks untouched in five years, that is a different purchase. Placemats under hot dishes and a dry cloth for spills covers the rest. Richmond Pine Dining Table 240cm - Black Frequently Asked Questions How many people does a Richmond dining table seat? The 190cm table seats six and the 240cm table seats eight. Each Richmond chair is 510mm wide, so the 190cm table takes two chairs down each long side with one at either end, and the 240cm table takes three a side on the same principle. Does the Richmond bench fit under the table? Yes. Both benches are 460mm high against a 760mm tabletop, so there is 300mm of clearance and the bench slides fully underneath when it is not in use. That is what gives a small dining room its floor space back between meals. Is Richmond furniture solid oak? No, and it is worth being clear about it. The legs are solid oak, where the load sits, and the structure behind them is pine. Richmond is not a solid oak slab and it is not priced like one. What sizes do the Richmond dining benches come in? Two. The 158cm bench measures W1,580 x D400 x H460 (mm) and seats up to three, and the 208cm bench measures W2,080 x D400 x H460 (mm) and seats up to four. Each is matched to one of the two table lengths. Can I buy the Richmond table and chairs together? Yes. Four settings are already matched and priced together: the 190cm table with six chairs, the 190cm table with four chairs and the 158cm bench, the 240cm table with eight chairs, and the 240cm table with four chairs and the 208cm bench. Related Posts Dining Bench vs Chairs: How to Choose the Best Seating How Many Chairs for a Dining Table? Australian Size Guide Liverpool Collection Room by Room: Pine and Oak Veneer Furniture Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.

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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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.