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Farmhouse is one of those words that gets attached to almost anything with a timber top. It is worth ignoring the word for a minute and looking at how the eleven pieces in this range are actually built, because they share two construction decisions and both of them change a room. The first is that every visible surface is acacia timber and every frame is painted white. The second is that nothing sits on the floor. Every single piece stands on legs, and that is why this is the tallest furniture in the catalogue. Key Takeaways Eleven pieces, all Oxford, covering dining and living and no bedroom at all. Acacia timber on every surface you touch, painted white on every frame you do not. Every piece stands on legs, so floor runs continuously under all of it. The TV unit is 60cm and the sideboard 85cm, both the tallest of their type here. The console is 36cm deep, the narrowest in the catalogue by 2cm. Two Materials, and Each One Has a Job Pick up any piece in the range and the split is obvious. The Oxford Acacia 4 Door 1 Drawer Sideboard has acacia doors, an acacia drawer front and an acacia top, sitting in a white painted carcass on white painted legs. The Oxford Acacia TV Unit does the same thing at 180 x 45 x 60cm. That division is not decorative. Timber goes where hands and plates and remote controls go, because timber takes wear and can be wiped without showing it. Paint goes on the structure, where nothing touches, and it is what keeps a room full of solid acacia from reading as heavy. Ten of the eleven pieces follow the rule. The exception is the Oxford Acacia Dining Chair Set of 2, which is a white timber frame with a grey upholstered seat and no visible acacia at all. In a room where the table top is a metre of pale timber, chairs that add more of it would be too much, so the chairs stay quiet. Oxford Acacia 4 Door 1 Drawer Sideboard Everything Stands on Legs The case pieces sit on splayed white legs that angle out from the carcass. The dining tables and the coffee table use an A frame trestle base with a stretcher running between the feet. Different shapes, same principle: you can see the floor underneath every piece in the range. That does more for a small Australian living room than any colour choice. A floor that runs uninterrupted from one wall to the other reads as a bigger floor, and the eye stops registering the furniture as a solid block along the edge of the room. In a 3.5 metre wide living area, that is the difference between full and furnished. It also makes a real difference on a Saturday. A vacuum head goes under a piece on legs and does not go under a plinth. So does a robot vacuum, a lost sock and a tennis ball. Furniture on legs is furniture you clean around rather than furniture you move. Oxford Acacia TV Unit [products-of-collection collection="farmhouse-furniture" heading="Shop the Farmhouse Range" limit="12" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-farmhouse-1"] Which Is Why It Is the Tallest in the Catalogue Lifting a carcass off the floor adds its height to the whole piece, and the numbers show it. The Oxford TV unit is 60cm high. Every other TV unit in the catalogue sits at 55cm or 56cm. The Oxford sideboard is 85cm, against 76cm for one range and 65cm for another. For the sideboard that is a straight win. At 85cm it is within 5cm of a kitchen bench, so you serve from it standing rather than stooping, and it is 9cm above the dining table it sits beside. Christmas lunch with the food on the sideboard and the table free is exactly what that height is for. For the TV unit it is a decision to make rather than a feature to enjoy. At 60cm plus the height of the television, the screen centre ends up higher than the ideal seated eye line for a low sofa. If your couch is deep and low, wall mounting above this unit is the better answer. If it is a firmer, higher seat, the extra height is fine. The Dining End Two tables. The Oxford Acacia Dining Table 190cm is 90cm across and the Oxford Acacia Dining Table 240cm is 100cm, both 76cm high like every other dining table here. The trestle base means the legs sit well in from the corners, so a person on the end of the table is not straddling a leg. The 100cm width on the larger table is the number worth noticing. Ten centimetres of extra depth across the middle is where the serving dishes go on a night when eight people are eating, and it is the difference between a centre of the table you can use and one that is permanently occupied by a fruit bowl nobody can reach past. Chairs come as a set of two at 46.8 x 55 x 88.7cm, with the upholstered seat that keeps the room from becoming all timber. The 240cm table with eight chairs is the complete version of the arrangement, and buying it that way is the only route to eight matching chairs at once. Oxford Acacia Dining Table 240cm The Living End The Oxford Acacia Coffee Table is 130 x 70 x 45cm, which is the same footprint as the coffee tables in two other ranges and the standard this catalogue works to. What is not standard is the base: it repeats the dining table's A frame at a smaller scale, so a living and dining area furnished from this range reads as one idea rather than two. The Oxford Acacia Console Table is 150 x 36 x 76cm and is the narrowest console in the catalogue, 2cm slimmer than the next one. In an Australian hallway around a metre wide, those 2cm are not nothing: they are the last of the clearance you need to get past with a laundry basket. The Oxford Acacia Side Table finishes the room at 55 x 55 x 58cm, the same square footprint every side table here uses. Beside a sofa it sits at arm height, and in a spare bedroom it doubles as a bedside table, which is the closest this range gets to a bedroom at all. Oxford Acacia Coffee Table Where the Range Stops There is no bed, no bedside table, no chest, no tallboy and no mirror. Eleven pieces, all of them dining and living. If you want this look through a whole house you will be mixing ranges, and the acacia here will not match the timber in a bedroom range exactly, because it is a different species finished a different way. That is less of a problem than it sounds. Bedrooms are the one part of a house nobody sees in the same glance as the dining table, so a change of range at the bedroom door is invisible in practice. What matters is that the rooms people move between in one line of sight stay consistent. Within its own territory the range is complete: you can furnish an entire open plan dining and living level from these eleven pieces without buying a single thing from anywhere else. The farmhouse range is small on purpose, and every piece in it is doing a job the others do not. Frequently Asked Questions What is the farmhouse range made of? Solid acacia on every visible surface, over a painted white frame, with an MDF back panel on the sideboard and TV unit. The timber is where you touch the piece and the paint is where you do not, which is the whole design in one sentence. Why is farmhouse furniture taller than other ranges? Because it stands on legs rather than a plinth. The TV unit is 60cm high against 55cm to 56cm elsewhere in the catalogue, and the sideboard is 85cm against 65cm to 76cm. Lifting a carcass off the floor adds height to the whole piece. Does furniture on legs make a room look bigger? It genuinely helps. You can see floor running underneath every piece in this range, and a continuous floor reads as a larger room than one interrupted by furniture sitting flush to the skirting. In a small living room it is worth more than the colour is. What sizes does the farmhouse dining table come in? Two. The 190cm is 90cm across and the 240cm is 100cm across, both 76cm high on an A frame trestle base. The 240cm seats eight and the 190cm six, and both are sold on their own or in a set with chairs. Does the farmhouse range include bedroom furniture? No. All eleven pieces are dining and living: table, chairs, sideboard, TV unit, coffee table, console and side table. If you want the same look in a bedroom you would be mixing in a different range, and the timber tone will not match exactly. Related Posts Modern Farmhouse Style: What It Is and How to Use It Well Byron vs Oxford: Two Acacia Ranges Compared The 21cm That Decides Which Sideboard Works in Your Dining Room Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.

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.

Sitting up in bed is not a design detail, it is most of what people do in a bedroom that is not sleeping. Reading, a laptop on a Sunday morning, waiting out a headache. A timber headboard is a wall behind your shoulders. A fabric one is something you can lean on for an hour without a pillow doing all the work. Two Cedora ranges are built that way, not one. Newcastle sets a fabric panel inside a curved frame painted white; Liverpool sets one inside bare timber and carries it down to the footboard as well. This is the Newcastle guide, and it starts by being clear about which of the two you actually want. Key Takeaways One of two Cedora ranges with a fabric headboard, and the only one in a painted frame. 123.5cm tall on a bedhead just 6.8cm deep, the thinnest frame in the catalogue. Liverpool is the other upholstered range, slightly taller at 125cm and fabric at both ends. Three plain bed frames in double, queen and king. No drawer version. Drawers are the shallowest of any bedroom range, which is what the curves cost. The Headboard Is Fabric, and That Changes the Room On the Newcastle Acacia Queen Bed Frame the headboard is a linen-toned upholstered panel held inside a shaped timber surround, painted white, with the curve carried through to the footboard and down into the legs. It reaches 123.5cm from the floor on a frame only 6.8cm deep, which is the thinnest bedhead Cedora builds, so the height costs you almost nothing in floor area. What it buys is comfort you notice daily, not a feature you point at. Leaning back against fabric is simply better than leaning against a painted board, and the height means the panel supports your shoulders rather than stopping at the small of your back. In a room where the bed is also the reading chair, which describes most Australian bedrooms, that is the difference between using the bed and propping up three pillows every time. The honest cost is maintenance. Fabric near a north-facing window will fade over years in a way paint will not, and it collects dust that a damp cloth cannot simply lift off. If the bed sits in full afternoon sun with the curtains open, this is not the range for you. If it sits on an internal wall, the concern is theoretical. Newcastle Acacia King Bed Frame Newcastle or Liverpool: Choosing Between the Two Fabric Beds Since both ranges upholster, the decision is worth making properly rather than by accident. The Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Natural puts its soft woven fabric panel inside a bare timber frame and repeats it at the foot of the bed, so you get fabric at both ends and visible grain around it. Newcastle keeps fabric at the head only and answers it with a solid curved footboard in paint. The numbers are close enough to matter. Liverpool stands 125cm at the bedhead on an 8cm frame, Newcastle 123.5cm on 6.8cm. Where they separate properly is storage: the Liverpool bedside drawers are 22.5cm deep inside against 15.1cm in the Newcastle, and the Liverpool chest runs 24.6cm against 16cm, in cabinets of identical external size. So the honest split is style against capacity. Take Newcastle if you want the painted, curved, Provincial look and the room is where you display things rather than store them. Take Liverpool if the bedroom has to hold a household's clothing and you would rather the timber showed. Both are comfortable to lean on, which was the point of the fabric in the first place. Three Frames, and What the Curve Adds The range runs double at W149 x D208cm, queen at W164 x D219cm and king at W194 x D219cm, each 123.5cm tall. All three use a solid slat base, so a mattress goes straight on with no ensemble underneath. There is no version with built-in drawers. The shaped legs are the detail that decides whether this range works in your room. They splay slightly outward and curve, which is what makes the bed read as French Provincial rather than plain white. They also mean the widest point of the bed is not the mattress line but a few centimetres below it, so if you are planning to slot the frame between a wall and a robe door, measure at floor level rather than at the top. The footboard is solid and curved, not open and not upholstered. That gives the bed a defined end, which is worth having in a large room where an open-ended bed can look adrift, and worth thinking twice about in a small one where the same solidity closes the space in. [products-of-collection collection="newcastle" heading="Shop the Newcastle Collection" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-newcastle-1"] The Case Pieces, and the Tallest Bedside in the Catalogue The Newcastle Acacia 2 Drawer Bedside Table is W55 x D45 x H64.4cm. That extra four and a half centimetres over the standard 60cm sounds trivial and is not, because the Newcastle bed sits on shaped legs and reads slightly higher than a plinth-based frame. The bedside was drawn to match it. If you are pairing a Newcastle bedside with a different bed, check the mattress height first. The Newcastle Acacia 5 Drawer Tallboy is W100 x D45 x H114cm with five drawers, two narrow ones at 42.3cm across the top and three at 87.6cm below. The Newcastle Acacia 6 Drawer Chest is W140 x D45 x H85cm with six drawers at 62.35cm wide. Both carry the same curved fronts and shaped legs as the bed, and both sit on the same 45cm depth as every other Cedora case piece, so they line up on a wall with anything else in the catalogue. Between them, the choice is the usual one. The tallboy takes a metre of wall and goes up. The chest takes 140cm and gives back a usable surface at 85cm, which is where the lamp, the tray and the folded washing end up. In a Provincial room the chest also gives the mirror somewhere to live. Newcastle Acacia 2 Drawer Bedside Table The Drawers Are the Shallowest of Any Bedroom Range This is the part worth being blunt about, because nothing in a photograph tells you. Newcastle drawer interiors are 15.1cm high in the bedside, 16cm in the chest and 18.5cm in the tallboy. The equivalent Bristol pieces run 19.2cm, 20.3cm and 20.8cm, and the Liverpool bedside and chest run 22.5cm and 24.6cm, all in cabinets with identical external dimensions. The reason is the styling itself. Shaped drawer fronts, a curved carcass and legs that lift the whole piece off the floor all take their volume from the same place, and that place is the inside of the drawer. It is not a fault. It is the honest arithmetic of buying curves instead of corners. Whether it matters depends entirely on what you fold. Shirts, t-shirts and folded linen do not care about five centimetres. Bulky winter jumpers and doubled-over denim do, and if that is most of your wardrobe you will be happier with a squarer range. Buy Newcastle for the way it looks and sits, with your eyes open about capacity, and it will not disappoint you later. Newcastle Acacia 5 Drawer Tallboy The Mirror, and What Makes This Provincial The Newcastle Acacia Mirror is 100 x 100cm and 5cm deep, with a shaped and moulded painted frame in place of a plain square one. It pairs with the chest, and if you want both in one purchase there is a Newcastle Acacia 6 Drawer Chest with Mirror. French Provincial as a look is not about any single feature, and it is certainly not about putting a fleur-de-lis on something. It is the combination of a curved silhouette, a painted finish that softens rather than reflects, shaped legs that lift furniture visually off the floor, and moulding that catches light along an edge. Newcastle carries all four across every piece, which is why the range reads as one room rather than a set of matching boxes. It suits an older Australian house better than a new one. High ceilings, picture rails, a bay window and carpet all flatter curves. A low-ceilinged room with square architraves and polished concrete will fight them, and in that room the Newcastle range looks like furniture that wandered in from a different building. Newcastle Acacia 6 Drawer Chest Newcastle Acacia Mirror Frequently Asked Questions Which Cedora beds have an upholstered headboard? Two ranges. Newcastle sets a fabric panel inside a curved frame painted white, and Liverpool sets one inside a bare timber frame in natural or black. London and Manchester use panelled timber headboards, and Bristol uses a slatted one. What is the difference between the Newcastle and Liverpool upholstered beds? Three things. Liverpool upholsters the footboard as well as the headboard, Newcastle only the headboard. Liverpool's frame is bare timber, Newcastle's is painted. Liverpool stands 125cm at the bedhead against Newcastle's 123.5cm. How tall is the Newcastle bed? 123.5cm from the floor to the top of the headboard, on a frame just 6.8cm deep. That is the thinnest bedhead in the catalogue, so the height costs almost nothing in floor space. Only the Liverpool bed is taller, at 125cm. What is the Newcastle range made from? A solid acacia headboard frame with a pine and acacia structure, painted white. The beds use a solid slat base, so no separate bed base is needed under the mattress. Why are the Newcastle drawers shallower than other ranges? The shaped fronts and curved legs take their volume from somewhere, and it is the inside of the drawer. The chest drawers are 16cm high against 20.3cm in the Bristol chest and 24.6cm in the Liverpool one, all three in cabinets of identical external size. 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