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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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 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 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 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.
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