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There's a strange moment when you first stand in the middle of your empty home together. The rooms feel bigger than you expected. Quieter. And then, almost immediately, the urge to fill it all arrives - faster than anything else.

Put the Cedora bedroom ranges in a row and the confusion is understandable. Five of them sell the same list: a bed frame, a two drawer bedside, a five drawer tallboy, a six drawer chest and a mirror. Four of the five are white, and every one of them is 45cm deep in the case pieces and 140cm wide in the chest. On a product grid, four of them are versions of the same photograph. The fifth, Liverpool, is the one that looks different and is built to the same grid underneath. Three numbers decide the whole thing: what the headboard is made of, how much fits in the drawers, and how much floor the bed takes. Everything else is preference. Key Takeaways Five bedroom ranges, not four. Liverpool is the one in bare timber rather than paint. Headboards differ completely: panelled, slatted or upholstered. Only London and Manchester offer beds with drawers, and they sit in the footboard. Liverpool has the largest drawer interiors, Newcastle the smallest, in identical cabinets. Bristol's queen frame is the narrowest at 162.4cm; Liverpool's is the widest at 171cm. Start With the Headboard, Because It Is All You See From the Door This is the only difference visible from three metres away, and it is the one people notice for years. London and Manchester both use a panelled timber headboard, 120cm tall, with moulded edges and a plinth base. It is the Hamptons answer: formal, symmetrical, and it makes a bed look like a piece of architecture rather than a mattress on legs. Bristol uses a slatted headboard instead. Vertical timber slats with air between them, which reads as Scandinavian and, more usefully, does not visually block the wall behind it. In a small room or a room with a window near the bedhead, that transparency is worth more than it sounds. Two ranges upholster. Newcastle sets a fabric panel inside a curved painted surround at 123.5cm, and the Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Natural sets one inside a bare timber frame at 125cm and repeats it at the foot of the bed. Those are the two you can lean back against for an hour, which matters if the bed doubles as the place you read or work. Range Headboard Height Style London Panelled timber 120cm Classic Hamptons Manchester Panelled timber 120cm Classic Hamptons Bristol Slatted timber 120cm Scandinavian Newcastle Upholstered fabric, painted frame 123.5cm French Provincial Liverpool Upholstered fabric, timber frame 125cm Contemporary Scandinavian Liverpool Pine Queen Bed Frame - Natural Then Ask Whether You Want Drawers in the Bed This cuts the field to two immediately. Only London and Manchester offer a bed with storage, in all three sizes, and in both cases the two drawers sit in the footboard and pull out toward the end of the bed rather than along the sides. That detail is the reason they work in Australian bedrooms at all. A side-opening drawer needs a clear run of floor beside the bed, which most rooms with a robe on one wall simply do not have. A footboard drawer needs the walkway at the end, which every room has. London's drawers are 43.7cm deep and 24.9cm high inside, Manchester's 43cm and 25.9cm. Bristol, Newcastle and Liverpool are plain frames only. That is not a gap so much as a different plan: Bristol's base sits 30cm off the floor and leaves the whole area underneath open, which takes storage boxes on castors that can be pulled from whichever side is actually free. If you rearrange rooms, that flexibility beats a fixed drawer. Manchester Pine Queen Bed Frame with 2 Drawers Manchester Pine Queen Bed Frame with 2 Drawers [products-of-collection collection="hamptons-bedroom-furniture" heading="Beds With Footboard Storage" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-bed4-1"] Then Measure Your Floor, Not Your Mattress A queen mattress is 153cm wide in every one of these beds. What changes is the frame around it, and the spread is wider than you would expect. Bristol's queen is 162.4cm, Newcastle's 164cm, London and Manchester 169cm, Liverpool 171cm. That is 8.6cm between the narrowest and the widest for exactly the same sleeping surface. In a large main bedroom the difference is invisible. In a three by three and a half metre second bedroom, which describes an enormous share of Australian housing, nearly nine centimetres is the gap between walking past the end of the bed and turning sideways to do it. Measure the floor and work backwards. Liverpool is also the longest at 224cm, another 5cm over Bristol. The tallboys run the other way. Liverpool's is 100cm tall, Bristol's 110cm, Manchester's and Newcastle's 114cm, London's 120cm, all on the same 100 x 45cm footprint. A lower tallboy keeps the sense of height in a small room and gives you a surface you can actually see the top of. Range Queen frame Tallboy height Bed with drawers Bristol 162.4 x 215.5cm 110cm No Newcastle 164 x 219cm 114cm No Manchester 169 x 219cm 114cm Yes London 169 x 218.1cm 120cm Yes Liverpool 171 x 224cm 100cm No The Drawer Volume Nobody Thinks to Compare Every one of these ranges sells a six drawer chest measuring exactly W140 x D45 x H85cm. Identical outside. Inside, the drawers vary by more than half in volume, and nothing on the shelf tells you which is which. Liverpool's chest drawers are 63.1cm wide, 36.9cm deep and 24.6cm high. Newcastle's are 62.35 x 37.8 x 16cm. That 8.6cm of height is the difference between a stack of folded jumpers sitting flat and the same stack stopping the drawer from closing. The reason is styling: Newcastle's shaped fronts and curved carcass take their volume from the inside, while Liverpool's flat fronts give it all back. The bedside tables tell the same story in miniature. Liverpool's drawers are 46.4 x 36.9 x 22.5cm, Bristol's 42.5 x 37 x 19.2cm, Newcastle's 42.6 x 34.7 x 15.1cm. If storage is genuinely why you are buying, this is the table to read rather than the price list. Range Chest drawer (W x D x H) Bedside drawer Tallboy lower drawer Liverpool 63.1 x 36.9 x 24.6cm 46.4 x 36.9 x 22.5cm 86.4cm wide, 22.5cm high Bristol 62.5 x 37 x 20.3cm 42.5 x 37 x 19.2cm 87.5cm wide, 20.8cm high Manchester 59 x 37 x 20.6cm 37.5 x 37 x 18.6cm 81.5cm wide, 22.5cm high London 59 x 38.3 x 19.1cm 35.5 x 38.3 x 17.5cm 80.5cm wide, 22.5cm high Newcastle 62.35 x 37.8 x 16cm 42.6 x 34.7 x 15.1cm 87.6cm wide, 18.5cm high Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest What They Are Actually Made Of All five use pine structurally, and they differ entirely in how much of any timber you get to see. London and Manchester are a solid pine structure finished in crisp white, top to bottom. There is no exposed grain anywhere in either range. Bristol splits the difference: a solid oak top on a painted pine carcass, so every horizontal surface you put something on is hardwood and everything else is paint. Newcastle lists a pine and acacia structure with a solid acacia headboard frame, all painted, with the fabric panel over the headboard. The acacia is real and you will never see it. Liverpool is the one that is not painted at all: a pine frame carrying a genuine oak veneer, in a natural oak tone or black. It is the only range here where the timber is the finish rather than something underneath it, which is also why it is the one that does not disappear into a white room. The Shortlist, One Paragraph Each Buy Bristol if the room is small and painted furniture suits it. Narrowest bed, lowest of the painted tallboys, roomiest drawers of the four white ranges, and an oak top where you actually put things. Buy London or Manchester if you want a bed that looks like a proper piece of furniture and you need storage in it. They are close enough that the honest tiebreakers are price and small drawer differences. Manchester sits slightly cheaper across most pieces. Buy Newcastle if you want the curves and the upholstered headboard in a painted frame, and the room has the height and light to carry them. Go in knowing the drawers are the shallowest of the five. Buy Liverpool if you want visible timber rather than paint, the largest drawers of any range here, and a fabric headboard without the Provincial styling. It is the widest bed at 171cm and the lowest tallboy at 100cm, so it wants width more than it wants height. [products-of-collection collection="bedroom" heading="All Cedora Bedroom Furniture" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-bed4-2"] Frequently Asked Questions Which Cedora bedroom range has the largest drawers? Liverpool. Its chest drawers are 63.1cm wide, 36.9cm deep and 24.6cm high inside, and its bedside drawers 22.5cm high. Bristol leads the four painted ranges at 20.3cm, and Newcastle has the smallest at 16cm, all in chests of identical external size. Which Cedora bed frames come with storage drawers? Only London and Manchester. Both offer double, queen and king with or without two drawers built into the footboard. Bristol, Newcastle and Liverpool are sold as plain frames. Which Cedora bedroom beds have an upholstered headboard? Newcastle and Liverpool. Newcastle sets a fabric panel inside a curved painted surround at 123.5cm. Liverpool sets one inside a bare timber frame at 125cm and repeats it on the footboard. London and Manchester are panelled timber, Bristol is slatted. Which range suits a small bedroom? Bristol. Its queen frame is 162.4cm wide against 169cm for London and Manchester and 171cm for Liverpool, and its tallboy is 110cm. Liverpool's tallboy is lower again at 100cm, so in a room where height is the problem rather than width, that is the one to look at. Are all five ranges the same material? No. London and Manchester are a solid pine structure, painted. Bristol is a solid oak top on a painted pine carcass. Newcastle is pine and acacia, painted. Liverpool is a pine frame with an oak veneer and is the only one not painted at all. Related Posts Six Centimetres Narrower: the Bristol Collection in a Small Bedroom Two Cedora Beds Have a Fabric Headboard. Only Newcastle Paints the Frame. Fifteen Drawers in One Bedroom: How the Manchester Collection Adds Up Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.

All six Cedora tallboys are W100 x D45cm with five drawers. Only height changes, from 100cm to 120cm. What that 20cm actually changes in a bedroom.

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 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 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 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 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.

Every Cedora six drawer chest is W140 x D45 x H85cm, but a Liverpool drawer holds 57.3 litres against Newcastle at 37.7. The full interior comparison.

The Liverpool Collection was created for that sense of cohesion. Not to fill a space, but to refine it. To bring balance between form and feeling, between structure and comfort, between what is seen and what is lived.

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A Liverpool bedroom is $5,049.40 and a living room $2,030.85. See the full room by room cost, and the one place where the dining bundle costs you more.