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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Two pieces of bedroom furniture, one 140cm wide and one 100cm. One with six drawers, one with five. The wider one with more drawers holds more: that is the assumption almost everybody makes, and in this catalogue it is wrong four times out of five. Cedora builds both to a fixed grid, which makes them unusually easy to compare. Every six drawer chest is 140 x 45 x 85cm. Every five drawer tallboy is 100cm wide and 45cm deep. Measure the drawers rather than the boxes and the gap between them almost disappears. Key Takeaways Every chest is 140 x 45 x 85cm; every tallboy is 100cm wide and 45cm deep. Tallboy heights run from 100cm to 120cm depending on the range, a 20cm spread. In four of five ranges the two pieces hold within eight percent of each other. The tallboy takes 0.45 square metres of floor against 0.63 for the chest. What the extra 40cm of wall really buys is a usable surface at 85cm, not capacity. Every Chest Is 140cm Wide and Every Tallboy Is 100cm Five ranges make both pieces, and the outside dimensions do not vary at all on the chests. The London Pine 6 Drawer Chest, the Manchester Pine 6 Drawer Chest, the Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest, the Newcastle Acacia 6 Drawer Chest and the Liverpool Pine 6 Drawer Chest - Natural are all 140 x 45 x 85cm. The tallboys hold width and depth at 100cm and 45cm but move on height. The Liverpool Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy - Natural stops at 100cm, the Bristol Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy reaches 110cm, the Newcastle Acacia 5 Drawer Tallboy and Manchester Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy both land on 114cm, and the London Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy goes to 120cm. The number that never changes is 45cm of depth, and it is the one worth writing on your hand. In a bedroom, depth is what you lose from the walkway beside the bed, and 45cm out from the wall is the same loss whichever piece you buy. Everything else about this decision is a trade between wall and height. Five Drawers That Are Not Five Equal Drawers Every tallboy here uses the same layout: two narrow drawers side by side across the top, then three full width drawers below. It looks like a styling choice and it is not. A single wide drawer is where small items go to disappear, so the range splits the top row in two and gives you a compartment sized for the things you reach for daily. The numbers vary a little by range. The Bristol runs top drawers at 42.5 x 37 x 20.8cm and lower drawers at 87.5cm wide. The London goes narrower and taller at 39cm across the top and 22.5cm deep inside, with 80.5cm lower drawers. The Newcastle has the widest lower drawers in the range at 87.6cm, and the shallowest at 18.5cm. In use that split is what makes a tallboy work in a room where two people share one piece of furniture. The two small drawers become one each, and the three below hold the folded clothing that neither of you needs to see every morning. A chest cannot make that division because all six of its drawers are the same size. London Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy [products-of-collection collection="tallboy" heading="Shop Cedora Tallboys" limit="6" columns="3" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-drawers-1"] Six Drawers That Really Are Six Equal Drawers The chests take the opposite approach: two columns of three identical drawers, 59cm to 63cm wide depending on the range, all the same size within a given piece. Nothing on a chest is sized for small items, and that is the design decision that shapes what it is good at. Interior heights are where the ranges genuinely separate. The Liverpool Pine 6 Drawer Chest - Black and its natural twin run 24.6cm deep inside, the deepest drawer in the catalogue. The Manchester sits at 20.6cm, the Bristol at 20.3cm, the London at 19.1cm, and the Newcastle at 16cm, which is a full 8.6cm shallower than the Liverpool. That range matters more than the drawer count. A 16cm drawer takes folded t-shirts and flattens anything thicker. A 24.6cm drawer takes a stack of jumpers without compressing the one on the bottom into a sheet. If you buy chests by looking at the outside, all five of these look identical, and inside they are not. Liverpool Pine 6 Drawer Chest - Natural [products-of-collection collection="chest" heading="Shop Cedora Chests of Drawers" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-drawers-2"] The Capacity Gap Is Smaller Than the Width Gap Multiply the internal dimensions out and the comparison becomes concrete. In the London range the tallboy holds roughly 275 litres against the chest at 259. In the Newcastle range it is 243 against 226. Both times the five drawer tallboy, on 40cm less wall, wins. The other three go the other way by similar margins. Manchester is 260 litres for the tallboy against 270 for the chest, Bristol 267 against 282. Only Liverpool breaks the pattern properly, where those 24.6cm drawers give the chest about 344 litres against 282 for the tallboy, a genuine 22 percent gap. So the honest summary is this: outside the Liverpool range, the number of drawers tells you nothing about capacity. The chest is 40 percent wider and holds within eight percent of the same volume, because the tallboy simply stacks the same drawer area upward instead of spreading it sideways. London Pine 6 Drawer Chest What the Extra 40cm of Wall Actually Buys If it is not capacity, it is the top. A chest at 85cm puts a usable surface at hip height, which is the height a kitchen bench is built at for the same reason. That surface holds a lamp, a tray, a folded pile of washing waiting two days to be put away, and it is where the matching mirror goes. A tallboy top at 110cm or 120cm is a different object. It is above the eye line of anyone sitting on the bed and just below the eye line of anyone standing, which makes it good for a plant and useless as a place to get ready. Nothing you put up there gets seen properly, and nothing you put up there is easy to reach. There is a second cost to height, and it is a safety one. A loaded tallboy is top heavy, and a child who opens the lower drawers and climbs them can bring the whole piece down. Anchor anything over a metre to a wall stud or a rated plasterboard fixing, and do it on the day it arrives rather than the weekend after. Newcastle Acacia 5 Drawer Tallboy Which One the Room Picks for You Start with the wall rather than the wardrobe. One clear run of 140cm with nothing crossing it, no door swing and no robe track, and the chest is the better buy every time: same storage, better surface, lower profile in a small room. That run is rarer in Australian bedrooms than people expect once the bed, the robe and the window are placed. If what you actually have is a metre of wall in a corner, between a window and a door frame, the tallboy is not a compromise. It is the piece designed for that gap, and outside the Liverpool range it gives up almost nothing in return. Check the height against the window sill and the light switch before ordering, because the difference between the 100cm Liverpool and the 120cm London decides whether it passes under or blocks it. The rooms that need both are the ones with two people and one wardrobe, and there the split is easy: the chest with its mirror takes the long wall and does the morning routine, and the tallboy takes the corner and swallows everything seasonal. Between the tallboy range and the chests, the room decides, not the drawer count. Frequently Asked Questions Does a tallboy hold less than a chest of drawers? Barely. Measured drawer by drawer, four of the five Cedora ranges put the tallboy and the chest within eight percent of each other, and in the London and Newcastle ranges the five drawer tallboy actually holds more than the six drawer chest. What are the standard dimensions of a tallboy and a chest? Across this range every six drawer chest is 140cm wide, 45cm deep and 85cm high. Every five drawer tallboy is 100cm wide and 45cm deep, with heights from 100cm to 120cm depending on the range. Depth is the one number that never changes. Why does a tallboy have two small drawers at the top? Because a full width drawer is a bad home for small things. The two top drawers run 38cm to 43cm wide, which suits socks, underwear, belts and jewellery, while the three below run 80cm to 88cm wide for folded jumpers and denim. Which is better for a small bedroom? The tallboy, on floor space alone. It occupies 0.45 square metres against the chest at 0.63, which is 40 percent less floor for a similar amount of storage. The trade is that you lose the usable surface at hip height. Do tallboys need to be anchored to the wall? Yes. Anything over a metre tall with drawers that pull out is top heavy once the upper drawers are loaded, and a child climbing an open drawer can bring it over. Fix it to a stud or use a rated plasterboard anchor, particularly in a child's room. Related Posts Tallboy vs Chest of Drawers: Which One Should You Choose? Chest of Drawers Height: Standard Sizes and Choosing Guide How to Choose a Tallboy: The Ultimate Guide for Bedroom Storage Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.
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