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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.

Coastal furniture goes wrong when it starts announcing itself. Rope handles, painted anchors, a shell in a jar on every surface, and suddenly a living room reads like a rental at Byron Bay rather than a home someone lives in year round. The Byron range takes the opposite route. Solid acacia tops on white painted frames, no motifs, no theme. This is how the twelve pieces work across a dining room and a living room, what the timber actually is, and which table size fits which house. Key Takeaways Every Byron top is solid acacia, every frame is painted white. Three table sizes: 160cm seats four, 190cm seats six, 240cm seats eight. The sideboard stands 860mm high, taller than the dining table, so it doubles as a serving bench. The console, coffee table and end table all carry a lower shelf. Byron and the Coastal Furniture collection are the same twelve pieces. A Coastal Look That Does Not Need Shells on the Shelf What makes Byron read as coastal is the contrast, not the decoration. A white frame drops away against a pale wall, so what your eye actually lands on is the acacia top: warm, open grained, a shade or two darker than the frame carrying it. That is the same trick a weatherboard verandah plays, where the timber does the talking and the paintwork stays quiet. It matters in an Australian house because our light is unforgiving. Midday sun through a north-facing window flattens dark furniture into a silhouette and turns high-gloss surfaces into a glare. A matte white frame reflects that light back gently, and the timber warms it. A room with the Byron range in it looks the same at eight in the morning as it does at four in the afternoon. A dark timber setting in a west-facing room does not. The practical upside is that you never have to commit to a theme. Byron sits under linen, under rattan, under a jute rug, and equally under black-framed windows and a concrete floor. Nothing about it insists on a beach house, which is exactly why it survives the years when everyone gets tired of coastal styling. Three Table Sizes, and the One Most Homes Get Wrong The Byron Acacia Dining Table 160cm measures W1600 x D800 x H760 (mm) and seats four. It is the size people skip past on the way to something bigger, and it is the right answer more often than they think. At 800mm deep rather than 900mm, it gives back a hundred millimetres of walkway, which in an apartment or a galley kitchen is the difference between squeezing past a seated guest and walking past them. The Byron Acacia Dining Table 190cm at W1900 x D900 x H760 (mm) seats six and is the volume seller for a reason: four every night, six when the grandparents come. The Byron Acacia Dining Table 240cm at W2400 x D1000 x H760 (mm) seats eight and is a genuine entertaining table, the one you buy because Christmas happens at your place now. Measure the floor before you fall for the table. The usual mistake is buying for the four times a year you host rather than the three hundred and sixty one days you walk around it. If the bigger table means turning sideways to get to the kitchen every morning, the smaller one will make you happier. Byron Acacia Dining Table 160cm with 4 Chairs Chairs, and the Settings Sold Ready to Go Chairs come in pairs as the Byron Acacia Dining Chair Set of 2, W476 x D541 x H885 (mm), with a white frame, a slatted back and an upholstered seat. The upholstery is the part that earns its keep. A timber seat is fine for twenty minutes and punishing for two hours, and Australian dinners in summer have a way of stretching from the table to the deck and back again. At 476mm wide the chairs are on the narrow side, which is deliberate. It is what lets three sit comfortably along the long edge of the 240cm table instead of two and a squeeze. It also means they tuck close, so the walkway behind them stays usable when nobody is sitting down. If you would rather not piece it together, three settings arrive matched: the Byron Acacia Dining Table 160cm with 4 Chairs, the Byron Acacia Dining Table 190cm with 6 Chairs, and the Byron Acacia Dining Table 240cm with 8 Chairs. Buying the setting means one delivery and one shade of white, which sounds trivial until you have two whites in the same room that do not agree. Byron Acacia Dining Table 240cm with 8 Chairs Storage That Keeps the Room Bright The Byron Acacia 3 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard is the piece worth planning around. At W1600 x D450 x H860 (mm) it stands a full hundred millimetres above the dining table, which puts the top at a comfortable standing height. Three drawers take cutlery and linen, three cupboards take the platters that surface twice a year, and the top becomes the place food waits while everyone finds a seat. In a house that entertains, that height does more work than the storage does. Next door, the Byron Acacia 2 Door TV Unit runs the same 1600mm width and 450mm depth at a lower H550 (mm), with two doors and open shelving so the things you reach for daily stay out and the cable mess stays behind a door. Matching the width across two rooms is what stops an open-plan space reading as two unrelated purchases pushed against the same wall. The smaller pieces all carry a lower shelf, which is the quiet advantage of this range. The Byron Acacia 3 Drawer Console Table, W1200 x D380x H825 (mm), holds keys and post above and a basket below. The Byron Acacia Coffee Table at W1300 x D700 x H450 (mm) is generous enough for a board game, and the Byron Acacia End Table, W550 x D550 x H550 (mm), parks beside a sofa or a bed without asking for floor space. Byron Acacia 3 Door 3 Drawer Sideboard [products-of-collection collection="byron" heading="Shop the Byron Collection" limit="12" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-byron-1"] Living With a White Frame in an Australian Home Two honest notes before you buy. A painted frame marks sooner than a stained one, and it happens in predictable places: the feet where the vacuum head clips them, the chair rails where shoes rest, the drawer edges near the handles. The upside is that white wipes clean with a damp cloth in seconds, while a raw timber leg holds a scuff for good. Most households find that trade fair. The acacia top is the durable half of the equation. It is a dense timber with a busy grain, and busy grain is forgiving: crumbs of daily wear disappear into the pattern instead of sitting on top of it like they do on a flat, pale surface. Use a placemat under anything straight off the stove, wipe spills rather than letting them sit, and keep the table out of all-day direct sun through an uncovered window, which is the one thing that fades timber faster than use does. Worth knowing: the sideboard and the TV unit carry an MDF back panel, which is standard in cabinet furniture and sits against the wall where nothing touches it. Every surface you actually use, every top and every shelf you set something down on, is solid acacia. If you want the longer version on how the timber behaves, our guide to acacia covers the trade-offs in full. Byron Acacia Coffee Table One Range, Two Rooms, No Theme Byron works because it is small enough to be consistent and broad enough to finish two rooms. Twelve pieces, one timber, one paint colour, and a shape language that does not change between the dining table and the end table beside the sofa. You can start with the table and the chairs, add the sideboard when the cutlery drawer in the kitchen gives up, and put the TV unit in next year without anything looking bolted on. That is the honest case for buying a range rather than assembling a room from six shops. Not that it saves money, because it usually does not, but that it removes the low-grade decision fatigue of trying to match a white you bought eighteen months ago. The whole Coastal Furniture collection is these same twelve pieces, so nothing is hiding around a corner waiting to clash. What it will not do is furnish a bedroom, and it is better to say that now than have you hunting for a matching bed frame. Byron stops at the dining and living rooms. If those are the spaces guests actually see, and the rooms where an Australian summer gets spent with the doors open and people wandering between the table and the deck, then twelve pieces is enough to finish the job properly. Byron Acacia 2 Door TV Unit Frequently Asked Questions Is Byron furniture solid timber? The tops are solid acacia. The frames are painted white, and the sideboard and TV unit also carry an MDF back panel. Everything you put a plate, a cup or a laptop on is solid timber. What size Byron dining table do I need? The 160cm table seats four, the 190cm seats six and the 240cm seats eight. All three stand 760mm high. The 160cm is also 800mm deep rather than 900mm, so it suits an apartment or a galley kitchen where the walkway matters more than the extra centimetres. Does the white frame mark easily? A painted frame shows scuffs sooner than a stained one, most often around the feet and the chair rails where shoes and vacuum heads land. It also wipes clean in seconds, which a raw timber leg does not. The acacia top is the part that takes daily wear, and it hides it well. Can I buy a Byron table and chairs together? Yes. Three settings are matched and priced together: the 160cm table with four chairs, the 190cm with six, and the 240cm with eight. Chairs on their own are sold in pairs. Is Byron the same as Cedora's other coastal furniture? Byron is the coastal range. Every piece in the Coastal Furniture collection is a Byron piece, so the two are the same twelve items viewed two ways. Related Posts What Is Acacia Wood Furniture? Pros, Cons, and Durability Modern Coastal Design: Create a Calm, Refined Home Aesthetic Richmond Collection Room by Room: Dining Tables and Bench Seating Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.