Count the contemporary range and you get 26 products. Count the actual designs and you get 13, because every single one is offered in exactly two finishes and nothing else. No piece exists in only one colour, and no piece exists in three. That sounds like a small detail and it changes how you shop. In most catalogues the finish is a per item decision, which is why so many living rooms end up with three timber tones. Here the decision happens once, and then the whole open plan level follows it. Key Takeaways Twenty six products, thirteen designs, each offered in natural and black. Everything that goes against a wall comes in two sizes: 180 or 130, 180 or 140, 190 or 240. Sideboards and TV units are both 46cm deep, so they line up on the same wall. The range covers dining and living completely and does not touch the bedroom. The TV unit is 56cm high and the sideboard 76cm, a deliberate 20cm gap. Twenty Six Products, Thirteen Designs The list is short enough to hold in your head: two dining tables, three dining sets, one chair, two sideboards, two TV units, one console, one coffee table and one end table. Thirteen things. Multiply by natural and black and you have the whole range. Every piece is built the same way, a solid pine frame with an oak veneer, with softly rounded corners and either a recessed finger pull or a slim brass finished bar. That consistency is the reason the range works as a set rather than a shelf of options, and it is also why two pieces bought a year apart still look related. What it means practically is that the hard decision is the finish, not the pieces. Pick natural or black first, and every subsequent purchase is just a question of what the room still needs. Most people do it the other way around, choosing pieces one at a time, and that is how a living room ends up with a black TV unit and a natural coffee table looking like an accident. Two Sizes of Everything That Goes Against a Wall Three categories in the range come in a long version and a short version, and in each case the difference is width alone. The Liverpool Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard - Natural is 180cm and the Liverpool Pine 2 Door 2 Drawer Sideboard - Black is 130cm, both 46cm deep and 76cm high. The TV units work the same way. The Liverpool Pine 2 Door 1 Drawer TV Unit 180cm - Natural runs 180cm with a drawer between two cupboards, and the Liverpool Pine 2 Door TV Unit 140cm - Black drops to 140cm and loses the drawer. Same 46cm depth, same 56cm height, 40cm less wall. Dining follows the pattern with the Liverpool Pine Dining Table 190cm - Natural and the 240cm version, the latter running 110cm across the top, which is wider than any other table in the catalogue. In a room where the table is the only thing between the kitchen and the couch, that extra width is what stops the middle of the table becoming unreachable storage. Liverpool Pine 2 Door 1 Drawer TV Unit 180cm - Natural [products-of-collection collection="contemporary-furniture" heading="Shop the Contemporary Range" limit="12" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-contemporary-1"] Forty Six Centimetres Is the Number That Lines It Up Both the sideboards and the TV units are 46cm deep. In an open plan room where one runs along the dining end and the other along the living end, often on the same continuous wall, that shared number is what makes the two read as one built in run rather than two separate purchases pushed together. The height difference between them is deliberate too. A sideboard at 76cm is a serving surface, level with the dining table. A TV unit at 56cm is 20cm lower, because a television sitting on top of a 76cm cabinet ends up above comfortable eye level for anyone on a sofa. Both numbers are doing a job. Plan the walkway from 46cm, not from the width. Here is the test your room will actually be put through: it is a Saturday, six people are over, someone is carrying two plates from the kitchen and someone else is reversing out of a dining chair at the same moment. Forty six centimetres off the wall plus a pulled out chair is most of two metres, and if the room cannot give you that, the two of you do the shuffle every single time. That is the measurement that decides whether an open plan level feels generous or permanently crowded, and it is the one nobody checks before ordering. Width you can see in a photo. Depth you only discover the first time you host. Liverpool Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard - Black The Living Half: Coffee, Console and End Table Three pieces cover the soft end of the room. The Liverpool Pine Coffee Table - Natural is 130 x 70 x 45cm, which is a large coffee table by Australian standards and sized for a three seater rather than a two. At 45cm high it sits level with most sofa seats, so nobody has to reach down for a cup. The Liverpool Pine Console Table - Natural is 150 x 38 x 76cm, tall enough to use standing and narrow enough for a hallway. It is the one piece in the range that regularly leaves the open plan area entirely and ends up by the front door, and it is the same 76cm height as the sideboard and the dining table. The Liverpool Pine End Table - Black is 55 x 55 x 58cm and does the job the coffee table cannot: it sits at the arm of a chair for the person who is not near the middle of the room. In a long living space with a sofa at one end and an armchair at the other, one coffee table is never enough. Liverpool Pine Coffee Table - Natural What the Range Deliberately Does Not Do There is no bedroom in this collection. No bed frame, no bedside table, no chest, no tallboy, no mirror. That is not an oversight: those pieces exist, they are simply catalogued under a different style, so a house furnished entirely from this range would have a beautifully coordinated living level and nothing to sleep on. There is also no dining bench, which matters if you have a narrow dining area. Benches exist in the catalogue but only in one other range, so a bench and this table would be a mix rather than a match. Worth knowing before you commit to the table. What is here instead is depth of choice inside a narrow field. Two table sizes, three set configurations including the 240cm table with eight chairs, two sideboards, two TV units. For an apartment or a townhouse where the whole living level is one room, that is more useful than a range that covers every room shallowly. Liverpool Pine Console Table - Black Choosing the Finish Before the Pieces Because every design comes in both, this is the only decision that cannot be reversed one piece at a time. Natural is the safer answer in a small or dark room: pale timber against a pale wall reads as less furniture, and in an apartment where the whole level is visible from the front door, less furniture is the goal. Black works, but it works best as an anchor rather than a scheme. One black sideboard along a light wall gives a room a centre of gravity. A black sideboard, black TV unit, black coffee table and black table in the same open space is a lot of dark timber in a country with this much light coming through the windows. The mixed approach is legitimate and it is what most people land on: the large wall pieces in natural to keep the volume down, one black piece where you want the eye to stop. Both finishes are the same piece underneath, so nothing about the mix is a compromise on build. The full contemporary range shows both side by side, which is the fastest way to see which one your room wants. Frequently Asked Questions How many pieces are in the contemporary range? Twenty six products, which is thirteen designs offered in two finishes each. There is no piece in the range that exists in only one colour, so the finish decision applies to the whole room rather than piece by piece. Can one range furnish a whole open plan living and dining area? This one can. It covers the dining table, chairs, sideboard, TV unit, coffee table, console and end table, which is every surface an open plan level needs. What it does not cover is the bedroom, which comes from a different part of the catalogue. What size sideboard and TV unit come in the range? Two of each. The sideboards are 180cm and 130cm wide, both 46cm deep and 76cm high. The TV units are 180cm and 140cm wide, both 46cm deep and 56cm high. Choosing between them is a wall length decision, not a storage one. How deep is contemporary furniture against the wall? Forty six centimetres for the sideboards and TV units, which is the number to plan the walkway around. The console is much shallower at 38cm, and the coffee table is 70cm across because it sits in open floor rather than against anything. Is black or natural better for a small living room? Natural, on balance, because a pale timber piece against a pale wall reads as less bulk in a room where every piece is visible at once. Black works better as a single anchor: one black sideboard in an otherwise light room rather than a whole level of it. Related Posts Same Table, Two Finishes: What Black Actually Does to an Australian Room The 21cm That Decides Which Sideboard Works in Your Dining Room Why a Console Table Is 76cm and a Side Table Is 55cm Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.
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No two pieces are exactly alike. There is something special about bringing natural timber into the home. From the individual grain patterns and subtle tonal variations to the knots and markings formed naturally over time, every piece of timber carries its own character. No two surfaces are ever the same - and that individuality is part of what makes timber furniture so enduring. At Cedora, we embrace these natural variations rather than hide them. They bring warmth, texture and a sense of authenticity to furniture designed for real, everyday Australian homes. Nature, in Every Detail Look closely at a timber surface and you’ll find details that cannot simply be replicated. The direction of the grain. A subtle shift from one tone to another. Natural knots and markings unique to that piece. These characteristics are not imperfections. They are part of the natural beauty of timber, giving every table, bed, sideboard or console its own individual finish. It means the piece that arrives in your home is uniquely yours. Designed Around Natural Character Across Cedora collections, timber takes on a different personality depending on the design surrounding it. Byron Acacia Dining Table 160cm Byron - Coastal Contemporary Warm acacia timber and clean, contemporary proportions give the Byron Collection its relaxed Australian coastal character. The natural variation of acacia becomes part of the design, bringing depth and warmth to dining and living spaces without making them feel overly formal. Featured pieces:Byron Acacia Dining Table 190cm Byron Acacia Dining Table 240cm Byron Acacia 3 Drawer Console Table Natural warmth, made for relaxed living. Liverpool Natural - Contemporary Scandinavian The Liverpool Bedroom Collection takes a softer, more understated approach to timber. Its natural finish, simple lines and Scandinavian-inspired proportions allow the warmth and texture of the material to become a defining part of the bedroom. From the bed frame to matching storage pieces, Liverpool creates a calm, cohesive space where natural character does the talking. Featured pieces:Liverpool Pine King Size Bed Frame – Natural Liverpool Pine Queen Size Bed Frame – Natural Liverpool Pine 6 Drawer Chest – Natural Liverpool Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy – Natural Liverpool Pine 2 Drawer Bedside Table – Natural Simple by design. Naturally individual. Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Natural Richmond - Modern Scandinavian Clean lines meet natural warmth in the Richmond Collection. With its modern Scandinavian influence, Richmond celebrates timber through restrained forms and an understated palette. Oak veneer brings natural grain and texture to the surface, complemented by timber construction to create furniture that feels warm, considered and easy to live with. From dining tables to sideboards and consoles, each piece brings a sense of natural character into contemporary Australian interiors. Featured pieces:Richmond Dining Table – Natural Richmond Sideboard – Natural Richmond Console Table – Natural Modern simplicity, grounded in nature. Made by Nature. Made for Your Home. Natural timber does not strive for perfect uniformity - and that is precisely its beauty. Variations in grain, knots, texture and tone mean your furniture may look slightly different from the piece photographed online or displayed in a showroom. Rather than taking away from the design, these natural characteristics give each piece its individuality. Furniture becomes more than something that simply fills a room. It brings texture. Warmth. Character. And a little piece of nature into the spaces where everyday life happens. Richmond Pine Dining Bench 208cm - Natural The Beauty of Natural Timber Unique nature. Designed for everyday living. Discover Cedora’s timber collections online at Cedora.com.au. Related Posts How to Fix Scratches on Solid Timber: Simple DIY Solutions Choosing the Right Timber Furniture for Timber Floors Thirty-One Acacia Pieces, and the Timber Only Shows on Twenty-Three Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.
Why does some furniture simply never feels outdated. Trends change. Colours come and go. Shapes evolve. What feels new today may look very different a few years from now. But some pieces seem to sit quietly outside of that cycle. They don’t demand attention. They don’t need to follow every new direction. Instead, they continue to feel at home as the spaces around them change. So, what gives furniture that lasting quality? Often, it comes down to a few simple things: thoughtful proportions, natural materials, restrained colours, considered silhouettes and a design that works beautifully in everyday life. It Starts with Proportion Before colour, styling or decoration, there is proportion. Furniture that feels balanced within a room has ease to it. A bed with presence without overwhelming space. A dining table is generous enough to gather around. Storage that feels substantial yet considered. Good proportions are easy to overlook. And perhaps that is the point. When they are right, a piece simply feels as though it belongs. The London and Manchester Collections capture this beautifully. Inspired by Classic Hamptons interiors, their balanced forms and timeless detailing bring a sense of structure and familiarity to the bedroom. They feel established rather than trend-led - pieces designed to remain relevant as bedding, colours and accessories around them evolve. Let Materials Speak Natural materials have a character that is difficult to imitate. Timber brings warmth through grain, texture and subtle tonal variation. It can sit comfortably alongside linen and woven textures today, then be restyled with completely different colours and finishes years from now. The Byron Collection embraces this natural warmth through acacia timber and a relaxed Coastal Contemporary aesthetic. The Byron Dining Table allows the material to become part of the room’s character. Style it with soft neutrals and organic textures for a coastal setting or introduce contemporary chairs and sculptural accessories for a more modern expression. The furniture is on. The room around it can evolve. London Pine Queen Bed Frame with 2 Drawers Keep the Palette Quiet There is a reason natural timber, white, black and warm neutral finishes continue to return to our homes. They give us room to change. A restrained foundation allows colour and personality to come from the things that are easier to evolve over time - artwork, rugs, cushions, lighting and objects collected along the way. Furniture doesn’t always need to be the loudest voice in the room. Sometimes its role is simply to hold everything together. The Richmond Collection, with its Modern Scandinavian character, reflects this approach through clean forms, natural finishes and an understated aesthetic. A Richmond Dining Table or Sideboard can become part of many different interiors because its design leaves space for the home around it to have a personality of its own. Simplicity Leaves Room for Change The simplest furniture isn’t necessarily the easiest to design. When unnecessary details are removed, proportion, material and craftsmanship become more visible. Clean silhouettes also give furniture something particularly valuable: versatility. A dining table can move from a minimalist interior to a warmer, layered home. A simple sideboard can be styled beneath contemporary artwork today and a large mirror years later. This is where Richmond’s Modern Scandinavian simplicity and Byron’s Coastal Contemporary character find common ground. Their styles are different, but both allow the natural character of the furniture to lead rather than relying on decoration alone. Byron Acacia Dining Table 240cm And It Still Has to Work A beautiful piece that doesn’t work for everyday life rarely feels timeless for very long. The furniture we keep is often the furniture that continues to serve us. The dining table has enough room when friends come over. The bedside table that keeps everyday essentials within reach. The chest of drawers that quietly keeps a bedroom organised. The sideboard that stores what we need while giving the room somewhere to display the things we love. Function may not be the first thing we notice about a beautiful piece of furniture. But it is often the reason it stays with us. A Home Should Evolve Timeless design doesn’t mean creating a home that never changes. Quite the opposite. Our homes should change with us. New artwork appears. A different rug changes the mood of a room. Chairs are moved around. Families grow. Styles become softer, bolder or more personal. The right furniture makes those changes somewhere to happen. From the enduring Classic Hamptons character of London and Manchester to the understated Modern Scandinavian simplicity of Richmond and the relaxed Coastal Contemporary warmth of Byron, each Cedora collection offers a different point of view. Not designed around what is popular for a moment. Designed around what makes a home feel good for years. Byron Acacia 3 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard Beyond Trends Perhaps timeless furniture isn’t furniture that never changes. It’s furniture that gives you the freedom to change everything around it. Designed for today. Made to belong for years to come. Discover Cedora Collections. Related Posts The Beauty of Natural Timber A Home Made for Living Designed for the Way We Live Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.
Furniture for real homes, real moments and the way Australians live. At Cedora, we believe a beautiful home should be more than something to look at. It should be somewhere to live. A place for slow Sunday mornings and busy weekday breakfasts. For dinners that bring everyone back to the table. For friends who stay longer than planned. For quiet evenings, growing families and all the ordinary moments that eventually become the ones we remember most. That idea sits at the heart of Cedora. We create furniture not simply to fill a space, but to become part of the life that happens within it. Designed with a Point of View Every home has its own character. Manchester Pine King Bed Frame Some feel light and coastal. Others are warm and contemporary. Some find comfort in classic details, while others feel most at home surrounded by simplicity. That is why Cedora doesn’t believe in one single way to create a beautiful home. Our collections explore distinct design perspectives - from the Classic Hamptons character of London and Manchester to the Contemporary Scandinavian simplicity of Liverpool Bedroom, the relaxed Coastal Contemporary warmth of Byron and the clean Modern Scandinavian expression of Richmond. Different styles for different homes. Connected by the same belief in thoughtful, liveable design. Made to Work Beautifully Good furniture has to do more than look good. Richmond Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard - Black A dining table needs to make room for Tuesday night dinner - and the extra guests who arrive on Sunday. A sideboard might display your favourite objects today and hide away the realities of family life tomorrow. A bedside table holds the lamp you carefully chose, alongside the phone charger, half-read book and glass of water that actually live there. These details matter to us. Because functionality isn’t separate from good design. It is part of it. Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Natural Inspired by the Way Australians Live Australian homes have their own rhythm. We love spaces that feel open and relaxed. Dining rooms that welcome people in rather than asking them to sit formally. Natural materials, warm timber and interiors that feel considered without feeling untouchable. Our homes move easily between everyday living and entertaining. Furniture should be able to do the same. From a Byron Dining Table surrounded by family on Sunday afternoon to a Liverpool Bed waiting at the end of a long day, we design our collections with these real moments in mind. Not for a perfect home. For your home. Style That Leaves Room for You We love beautiful interiors. But we don’t believe your home should look exactly like someone else’s. Furniture should create the foundation. You bring the personality. The photographs on the sideboard. The chair that always gets pulled into another room. The flowers from the weekend market. The artwork you’ve had for years. The things collected on holidays and the pieces that mean something only to you. Over time, these layers are what turn a room into your room. Our role is simply to give them somewhere beautiful to belong. Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Black This Is Cedora Cedora is about considered design without making home feel complicated. Liverpool Pine 6 Drawer Chest - Natural It’s about furniture with character, made for spaces that are actually lived in. It’s about discovering your style rather than following someone else’s. And above all, it’s about creating a home that feels good to come back to. Because we believe the best homes aren’t necessarily the most perfect. They’re the ones filled with life. Cedora A Home Made for Living. Designed for your style. Made for your everyday. Related Posts The Beauty of Natural Timber One Room, Three Ways: Coastal, Scandinavian and Hamptons Choosing Between the Cedora Bedroom Ranges Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.
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Open the Scandinavian collection and you get 49 pieces, which sounds like one coherent range until you look at what is actually in it. Three separate ranges sit under that one label, and none of them furnishes a whole house on its own. That matters because of how people buy. Almost nobody buys 49 pieces. They buy a dining table now, a bedroom in six months, and they want the second purchase to look like it belongs with the first. Here is what genuinely lines up between the three, and what does not. Key Takeaways Richmond is 27 of the 49 pieces and the only range covering dining and living. Liverpool contributes 14 bedroom pieces and Bristol 8, and neither does dining. Every case piece across all three is 45cm deep, and every chest is 140 x 45 x 85cm. Richmond and Liverpool are bare timber; Bristol is painted white with a timber top. The two mirrors in the collection are different shapes: 100cm square and 90cm round. One Label, Three Ranges, and Only One Dining Room Richmond is the workhorse. Its 27 pieces cover the Richmond Pine Dining Table 190cm - Natural, chairs, two bench lengths, a sideboard, a console, a Richmond Pine Coffee Table - Natural, a TV unit and an end table. If your dining and living areas run into each other, as most Australian open plan levels do, one range does the whole floor. What Richmond does not make is a bed. Not in any size, not in either finish. So the moment you walk out of the shared rooms and into a bedroom, the Scandinavian collection hands you over to a different range entirely, and you have two of them to choose between. Liverpool brings 14 bedroom pieces to the collection: three bed sizes in two finishes, bedside tables, chests, tallboys and a mirror. Bristol brings 8, covering the same list in one finish. Both are complete bedrooms. Neither has a single dining piece in this collection, which is the split nobody notices until they are halfway through furnishing. Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Natural The Boxes Match, the Fronts Do Not Here is the part that makes mixing safe. Every case piece in all three ranges is 45cm deep. Every six drawer chest is 140 x 45 x 85cm, whether it is the Liverpool Pine 6 Drawer Chest - Natural or the Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest. Every tallboy is 100cm wide and 45cm deep. So two pieces from two ranges will sit on the same wall, project the same distance into the room and line up along the top within a couple of centimetres. That is not a small thing. It means a Bristol chest and a Liverpool tallboy in the same bedroom will read as a planned pair rather than two pieces that happen to be there. The bedside tables are the exception worth knowing. The Liverpool Pine 2 Drawer Bedside Table - Natural is 60cm wide and 55.9cm high. The Bristol Pine 2 Drawer Bedside Table is 55cm wide and 60cm high. Same depth, but one is wide and low and the other narrow and tall, so a matched pair either side of a bed has to come from the same range. Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest [products-of-collection collection="scandinavian-furniture" heading="Shop the Scandinavian Range" limit="12" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-scandi-1"] Richmond Is Bare Timber, Bristol Is Painted Where the three ranges genuinely part company is the surface. Richmond is bare timber throughout, with oak legs on a pine structure and a natural or black finish. Nothing is painted, and the joinery is left visible in the open frame legs that run under the tables and benches. Liverpool is also bare timber, a pine frame with an oak veneer, in a warmer oak tone or black. The bedroom pieces add one thing Richmond does not have anywhere: the bed frames carry an upholstered headboard and footboard panel set into the timber, which softens a room in a way no amount of grain does. Bristol is the odd one out and deliberately so. It is painted white with a timber top on the case pieces, and the Bristol Pine Queen Bed Frame has a slatted headboard rather than a solid or upholstered one. In a small or dark bedroom that white carcass throws light back into the room, which the bare timber ranges cannot do. Bristol Pine Queen Bed Frame Which Bedroom Range Goes With Richmond Downstairs Picture the actual moment this gets decided. The Richmond table went in eighteen months ago, the room works, and now the spare bedroom has to stop being a spare bedroom because a baby is coming or your mother is moving in. You are standing in a showroom with a photo on your phone, trying to remember whether the table was warm or grey, and the two bedroom ranges in front of you look nothing like each other. Here is the honest answer. If the dining and living rooms are Richmond in natural, the Liverpool bedroom continues the same idea: bare timber, similar warmth, no change of language when you walk through the house. If the bedroom is small, north facing onto a fence, or the room in the house that never gets light, Bristol is the better answer even though it does not match. White painted furniture in a dark bedroom is worth more than continuity is, and a bedroom is a room nobody sees from the dining table anyway. The one combination to avoid is Bristol and Liverpool together in the same bedroom. Painted white against bare oak tone at close range reads as two sets of furniture rather than one, and unlike the room to room question there is nowhere for the eye to rest between them. Pick one range per bedroom and the collection behaves itself. Richmond Pine Coffee Table - Natural The Two Mirrors Are Not the Same Shape A detail that catches people out when they order two rooms at once. The Bristol Pine Mirror is a 100cm square with a timber top rail, sized to sit on the matching chest. The Liverpool Pine Mirror - Natural is a 90cm circle, 4cm deep, made to hang on a wall on its own. They are not interchangeable, and the difference is not decorative. A square mirror on a chest inherits the chest's height and shows you from about the ankles up. A round mirror you hang wherever you like, so it can be centred at standing eye level and actually used to check an outfit. If you are furnishing two bedrooms from this collection, that is the thing to decide first, before the chest and well before the bed. The mirror determines whether the chest needs to go on a wall you can stand back from, and moving a chest after the fact is a two person job nobody enjoys. Buying It in the Right Order Start with the shared rooms. Richmond covers dining and living completely, it is the range visitors actually see, and it is the one where a piece bought later has to match something bought earlier. Get the table and the sideboard right and the rest of the floor follows. Do the bedroom second, as a separate decision rather than an extension of the first one. It is a different room, a different range, and the only thing it needs to inherit is the general restraint: 45cm deep case pieces, uncluttered fronts, no ornament. That is what the label is describing, not a single timber tone. What ties it together in the end is the depth grid rather than the colour. Everything in the Scandinavian range comes 45cm off the wall, which is why a house furnished from three of its ranges over three years still reads as one decision rather than three shopping trips. Nobody visiting counts the ranges. They just notice that the place hangs together. Frequently Asked Questions Can you mix furniture ranges in the same house? Across rooms, easily. In the same room, only if the finishes agree. Richmond and Liverpool are both bare timber so they sit together comfortably, while Bristol is painted white with a timber top and reads as a different family beside either of them. Which Cedora range covers a dining room in Scandinavian style? Richmond, and only Richmond. Its 27 pieces cover the dining table, chairs, benches, sideboard, console, coffee table, TV unit and end table. Liverpool and Bristol contribute bedroom pieces to the same collection and nothing for the dining room. Do the chests of drawers from different ranges match in size? The boxes do. Every six drawer chest in the collection is 140 x 45 x 85cm, and every tallboy is 100cm wide and 45cm deep. What changes is the handle, the base detail and the finish, so two chests will line up on a wall and still look different. What is the difference between the Bristol and Liverpool bedside tables? Five centimetres of width and four of height. The Liverpool is 60cm wide and 55.9cm high, the Bristol is 55cm wide and 60cm high. Both are 45cm deep. The Liverpool sits lower than most mattresses and the Bristol sits level with them. Is Scandinavian furniture always pale timber? Not in this range. Richmond and Liverpool both come in a black finish alongside the natural, and Bristol is painted white with a timber top. The common thread is the uncluttered profile rather than the colour. Related Posts Scandinavian Interior Design: A Practical Guide Scandinavian Bedroom and Dining: Create a Calm and Cohesive Home 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.
Most people shop for a sideboard by width. You measure the wall, subtract a bit for comfort, and start filtering. It is a reasonable way to shop and it is why so many dining rooms end up with a piece that fits the wall perfectly and still feels wrong every time you use it. The number that decides how a sideboard behaves is its height, and across the eight in the Cedora range that number moves 21cm, from 65cm to 86cm. Every Cedora dining table, in all four lines, is 76cm. What follows is what each height band does once there are plates on it. Key Takeaways Cedora sideboards span 65cm to 86cm in height, while every dining table is exactly 76cm. At 85cm to 86cm the Oxford and Byron work as standing serving surfaces. At 76cm the Liverpool sits level with the table, so dishes slide straight across. At 65cm the Richmond reads as a low console and suits a living room wall better. All of them are 45cm or 46cm deep, so plan a 75cm to 90cm walkway on top of that. Every Dining Table Is 76cm. The Sideboards Are Not. Dining tables are one of the few pieces of furniture with a genuinely fixed height. Across the Liverpool, Richmond, Byron and Oxford ranges, every table measures 76cm from floor to top, whether it is a 160cm four seater or a 240cm eight seater. Chairs are built to that number, so nobody varies it. Sideboards have no such rule, and manufacturers use the freedom differently depending on what they think the piece is for. A sideboard designed as a buffet gets built near kitchen bench height. One designed to sit under a window or a run of artwork gets built low. Both get sold under the same word, which is where the confusion starts. So before comparing finishes, work out which of the three jobs you actually need: a surface to serve food from while standing, a surface that extends the table, or a storage box that stays visually below everything else in the room. Each one has a height, and once you know the height the shortlist gets very short. At 85cm and 86cm, You Serve Standing Up The Oxford Acacia 4 Door 1 Drawer Sideboard is 180 x 45 x 85cm and the Byron Acacia 3 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard is 160 x 45 x 86cm. An Australian kitchen bench is usually 90cm, so both of these land within about 5cm of the surface you already prepare food on. Your back knows the difference between that and reaching down to 76cm with a hot dish in both hands. That is the case for either of them in a room where the dining table does the entertaining. Christmas lunch, a birthday with too many people, any meal where the table is full and the food has to be somewhere else: a sideboard at bench height turns into a second bench, and you can carve on it without anyone at the table getting an elbow in the ear. The two differ in how they divide the space inside. The Oxford runs four cupboard doors with a single drawer above them, and that drawer is 87.4cm wide but only 17.8cm high, which is a shape almost purpose built for cutlery trays, table linen and serving spoons laid flat. The Byron takes the opposite approach with three drawers over three cupboards, so it holds more small things and fewer long ones. Both are solid acacia with an MDF back panel, and both stand on visible legs rather than a plinth, which keeps a big piece from looking heavy. Oxford Acacia 4 Door 1 Drawer Sideboard At 76cm, the Sideboard and the Table Become One Surface The Liverpool Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard - Natural is 180 x 46 x 76cm, and the black version is identical in every dimension. At 76cm it is exactly level with every Cedora dining table, and level does something the other heights cannot: you can slide a dish from one to the other without lifting it. In practice that matters most for the meals nobody photographs. Weeknight dinner where the rice cooker and the salad bowl live on the sideboard because the table is not big enough for both plus homework. Sunday breakfast where the toaster gets carried in. Anything where the two surfaces are working together rather than one serving the other. Inside, three drawers sit between two cupboards, each drawer measuring 53.8 x 36.9 x 21.6cm. That is deep enough for placemats stacked flat, tea towels, candles and the drawer of miscellaneous dining room objects every house has. The frame is solid pine with an oak veneer, the edges are softly rounded rather than square, and the recessed finger pulls mean there is no hardware to catch a hip on in a room where people squeeze past. Liverpool Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard - Natural [products-of-collection collection="sideboards" heading="Shop Cedora Sideboards" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-sideboard-1"] At 65cm, It Stops Being a Serving Piece The Richmond Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard - Natural is 160 x 45 x 65cm. That is 11cm below the table it would sit next to, and 25cm below a kitchen bench. Anything you serve from it, you serve bent over, which is worth knowing before rather than after. Read it as a low console instead and it becomes the most useful piece in the range. At 65cm it sits below the sight line of anyone standing, so a wall of artwork above it reads as the feature and the furniture reads as the base. It also clears most window sills, which is the one place in an open plan room where a taller cabinet simply cannot go. The structure is a pine carcass on solid oak legs, with two cupboards and three drawers, and there is a black finish in the same dimensions. In an open plan living and dining space, the honest use for it is as the divider between the two zones: storage for both, a surface for neither, and low enough that the room still reads as one space. Richmond Pine 2 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard - Natural Depth Is 45cm, and That Is the Number Small Rooms Fail On Every sideboard here is 45cm or 46cm deep, and the difference between them is not worth thinking about. What is worth thinking about is what sits in front. A dining chair needs roughly 75cm behind the table edge to be pulled out and sat in, and a person walking behind a seated diner wants about 90cm. Put those together and a sideboard on the same wall as the pulled out chairs needs your room to be about 1.4 metres deeper than the table itself. Most Australian dining rooms are not, which is why the sideboard belongs on an end wall or the wall behind the chairs nobody uses, not opposite the kitchen where the traffic runs. When the wall genuinely is not long enough, the Liverpool Pine 2 Door 2 Drawer Sideboard - Natural is the answer at 130 x 46 x 76cm, with a black version to match. It keeps the height and the depth of its larger sibling and drops 50cm of width by giving up one drawer. In an apartment dining nook that is usually the whole difference between a sideboard and no sideboard. Liverpool Pine 2 Door 2 Drawer Sideboard - Black Matching It to a Table You Already Own If the table came from one of these ranges, the matching sideboard is the safe answer and the finishes are made to sit together. But the range is deliberately mixable, and a contrast piece often works harder: a black Liverpool against a natural timber table gives a dining room a visual anchor that a matched set never does. What should not vary is the relationship between the heights. Within about 10cm of the table, in either direction, the two pieces read as belonging together whatever the timber. Push past 15cm and they read as two separate purchases, which is fine if that is the intention and jarring if it is not. So measure the wall last. Decide first whether you are buying a serving surface, a table extension or a low storage base, take the height that matches, and then check it fits. Bought in that order, a sideboard stops being the piece of furniture you walk around and starts being the reason the dining room works at all. The full sideboard range covers all three heights. Frequently Asked Questions How tall should a sideboard be? Between 76cm and 90cm if you want to serve from it standing up, because that is the range your kitchen bench already sits in. Below about 70cm it becomes a low console: still good storage, but you will be bending to reach anything you put on top of it. Can a sideboard be taller than the dining table? Yes, and two of the Cedora sideboards are. The Oxford is 85cm and the Byron 86cm against a table top of 76cm, so they stand about 10cm proud. That reads as deliberate rather than mismatched, and it puts serving dishes above the heads of anyone seated. How deep is a sideboard and how much room does it need? Every Cedora sideboard is 45cm or 46cm deep. Allow that plus a walkway: 75cm of clear floor for people to pass behind seated diners, or 90cm if chairs on that side get pushed back regularly. In a narrow room, put the sideboard on the wall the chairs do not use. What size sideboard suits a small dining room? The 130cm Liverpool. It is the only one under 160cm, it keeps the same 76cm height and 46cm depth as the 180cm version, and it gives up one drawer rather than any usable capacity. In an apartment dining nook that 50cm saving is the difference between fitting and not. Does the sideboard have to match the dining table? It does not, but the height relationship matters more than the timber. A sideboard within 10cm of the table reads as part of the same set even in a different finish, while one that is 20cm lower reads as a separate piece of furniture that happens to be in the room. Related Posts Sideboard vs Buffet: Key Differences and How to Choose What to Store in a Sideboard: Smart Storage Ideas & Tips How to Style a Sideboard: 10 Expert Rules for a Perfect Look Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.
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