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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. Manchester Pine Queen Bed Frame with 2 Drawers 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. Manchester Pine 2 Drawer Bedside Table 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. Manchester Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy [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. Manchester Pine 6 Drawer Chest 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. Manchester Pine Mirror 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.

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Put a console table and a side table next to each other in a showroom and they look like the same idea at two scales: same timber, same legs, same clean top. Buy the wrong one for the spot you had in mind and you find out quickly that they are not related at all. The whole difference is roughly 20cm of height. Every console in the Cedora range stands between 76cm and 82.5cm. Every side table stands between 55cm and 58cm. One is a surface for a person on their feet and the other is a surface for a person already sitting down. Key Takeaways Consoles run 76cm to 82.5cm high; side tables run 55cm to 58cm. Consoles are 36cm to 38cm deep, too narrow to work at and right for a hallway. The two 150cm consoles have no drawers; the two 120cm consoles have drawers and a shelf. Every side table is 55cm wide, so they all take about 0.3 square metres of floor. Sofa backs sit at 75cm to 85cm, which is what makes 82.5cm the behind the sofa height. A Console Is Built for Someone Standing Up The Liverpool Pine Console Table - Natural is 150 x 38 x 76cm, and the Oxford Acacia Console Table is 150 x 36 x 76cm. Both are as tall as a dining table and both are less than 40cm deep, and that combination tells you exactly what they are for. Thirty eight centimetres is narrower than it sounds. A dinner plate is 27cm across, so a console will hold one with almost nothing to spare, which is why nobody eats at one and nobody should try to work at one either. What that depth does buy is passage: in a hallway around a metre wide, a console leaves you more than 60cm to walk through with a bag of shopping. The pair of them are deliberately bare. No drawers, no shelf, just a top on legs, which leaves the floor underneath free for baskets, shoes or nothing at all. In a narrow entry that emptiness is the point, because a solid piece of furniture the same size would make the corridor feel half as wide. The black Liverpool does the same job while reading as heavier. The Taller Consoles Do a Different Job The Byron Acacia 3 Drawer Console Table and the Richmond Pine 2 Drawer Console Table - Natural are both 120 x 38 x 82.5cm. Thirty centimetres shorter in length, 6.5cm taller, and both carry drawers above an open lower shelf. That is a different piece of furniture wearing the same word. The extra height is what puts them behind a sofa. Most sofa backs land somewhere between 75cm and 85cm, so at 82.5cm these sit level with the back or just above it, and a lamp on top ends up at reading height for whoever is on the couch. A 76cm console behind the same sofa disappears below the cushion line. The drawers change the daily use rather than the look. Three shallow drawers on the Byron and two on the Richmond, with a shelf below both, turn the piece into the place where keys, sunglasses, dog leads and unopened mail live. Shorter and deeper in function, longer and emptier in the other two: pick by which problem the hallway actually has. The black Richmond matches the black dining pieces. Byron Acacia 3 Drawer Console Table [products-of-collection collection="console-tables" heading="Shop Console and Hallway Tables" limit="6" columns="3" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-console-1"] A Side Table Is Built for Someone Sitting Down Every side table in the range is 55cm wide. The Byron Acacia End Table is 55 x 55 x 55cm, the Oxford Acacia Side Table and the Liverpool Pine End Table - Natural are 55 x 55 x 58cm, and the Richmond Pine End Table - Natural is 55 x 50 x 55cm, the only one that is not square. Fifty five to fifty eight centimetres is sofa arm height, and that is not a coincidence. Sitting down, your forearm rests somewhere around 55cm to 65cm off the floor, so a table in this band is one you reach without leaning, looking or thinking. Anything taller and you knock the cup with your elbow; anything shorter and you reach down past the cushion. The footprint is the other half of it. At 55cm square, one of these takes about 0.3 square metres, roughly half the floor a chest of drawers needs and small enough to fit in the gap between a sofa arm and a wall that is otherwise wasted. The black Liverpool works the same way in a darker room. Liverpool Pine End Table - Natural [products-of-collection collection="side-tables" heading="Shop Side and End Tables" limit="6" columns="3" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-console-2"] Behind the Sofa, Under the Window, Beside the Bed Three placements cover most of what people actually buy these for. Behind a sofa, the 82.5cm consoles win for the reason above, and the 38cm depth means the sofa only has to come 40cm off the wall to make room. In an open plan living area that line of furniture is what stops the couch looking like it is floating in the middle of the room. Under a window, height is the constraint rather than the choice. Measure to the underside of the sill: a 76cm console fits under most and a 82.5cm one often does not, and a console that fouls a sill by 3cm cannot be fixed with cushions or a rug. This is the placement where people order the wrong one. Beside a bed, a side table is a genuine option and the maths is close. Mattress tops usually finish between 55cm and 65cm off the floor, so a 58cm table sits at or just below the mattress, which works for a glass of water and a book. In a spare room where one bedside table has to double as an occasional table for guests, it is the more useful buy of the two. Richmond Pine 2 Drawer Console Table - Natural The Australian Hallway Problem Entry halls in most Australian homes are about a metre wide, and in a 1960s brick veneer or a narrow terrace they are often less. That is the room a console table is sold for, and it is the room where the wrong depth turns a nice piece of furniture into an obstacle you resent every time you carry the washing basket through. Do the subtraction before you buy. A metre of hallway minus a 38cm console leaves 62cm of clear passage, which is comfortable for one person and awkward for two. Minus a 45cm sideboard it leaves 55cm, which is where you start turning sideways. That 7cm is why consoles are built at the depth they are. If the hallway is genuinely too narrow, the honest answer is to move the piece rather than shrink it. A console works just as well on the living room wall behind the sofa or on the landing at the top of the stairs, and a side table takes the entry job at a fraction of the footprint. A 55cm square by the front door still holds keys. Byron Acacia End Table Buying the Pair Rather Than the Piece Most homes end up needing both, and the ranges are built so they can be bought together. Liverpool, Byron, Richmond and Oxford each make a console and a side table in the same finish, so the entry piece and the lounge piece can be visibly related without being identical. They do not have to match, and there is a reasonable argument for not matching. The console lives in a hall the sofa cannot see, so a black console at the front door and a natural side table by the couch is two decisions rather than one compromise. What should match is the timber tone of the pieces that share a sight line. Whatever you choose, buy on the height first. Nobody has ever regretted a table because it was 10cm too short in length, and everybody notices one that is 20cm wrong in height, every single day, because their arm is in the wrong place. Between the console range and the side tables, the numbers do most of the deciding. Frequently Asked Questions What is the difference between a console table and a side table? Height, and everything follows from it. A console table stands at 76cm to 82.5cm and is used by somebody on their feet. A side table stands at 55cm to 58cm and is used by somebody sitting down. They are not two sizes of the same thing. How deep should a console table be? Between 36cm and 38cm on these, which is deliberately narrow. That is not enough depth to eat at or work at comfortably, and it is exactly enough to hold keys, a lamp, a tray and a vase while still letting two people pass in a hallway. Can a console table go behind a sofa? Yes, and the height decides how it looks. Most sofa backs land between 75cm and 85cm, so the 82.5cm Byron and Richmond consoles sit level with or just above the back, while the 76cm Liverpool and Oxford tuck a little below it. Can a side table be used as a bedside table? It can, if the height suits your bed. These are 55cm to 58cm, and most mattress tops land between 55cm and 65cm, so a side table sits at or slightly below the mattress. That is fine for a glass of water and less good for a tall lamp. What size side table suits a small living room? All of them are the same footprint, which makes this easy. Every side table in the range is 55cm wide, and the deepest is 55cm, so any of them takes about 0.3 square metres of floor. Choose on shelf and finish rather than on size. Related Posts How to Choose a Console Table: The Ultimate Design Guide Console Table vs Hall Table: Key Differences and Best Uses 10 Stylish Side Table Decor Ideas to Elevate Your Home Decor Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.

A perfectly measured room still leaves a sideboard stuck in the hallway. The number that matters is the narrowest point of the whole path.