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Two pieces of bedroom furniture, one 140cm wide and one 100cm. One with six drawers, one with five. The wider one with more drawers holds more: that is the assumption almost everybody makes, and in this catalogue it is wrong four times out of five. Cedora builds both to a fixed grid, which makes them unusually easy to compare. Every six drawer chest is 140 x 45 x 85cm. Every five drawer tallboy is 100cm wide and 45cm deep. Measure the drawers rather than the boxes and the gap between them almost disappears. Key Takeaways Every chest is 140 x 45 x 85cm; every tallboy is 100cm wide and 45cm deep. Tallboy heights run from 100cm to 120cm depending on the range, a 20cm spread. In four of five ranges the two pieces hold within eight percent of each other. The tallboy takes 0.45 square metres of floor against 0.63 for the chest. What the extra 40cm of wall really buys is a usable surface at 85cm, not capacity. Every Chest Is 140cm Wide and Every Tallboy Is 100cm Five ranges make both pieces, and the outside dimensions do not vary at all on the chests. The London Pine 6 Drawer Chest, the Manchester Pine 6 Drawer Chest, the Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest, the Newcastle Acacia 6 Drawer Chest and the Liverpool Pine 6 Drawer Chest - Natural are all 140 x 45 x 85cm. The tallboys hold width and depth at 100cm and 45cm but move on height. The Liverpool Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy - Natural stops at 100cm, the Bristol Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy reaches 110cm, the Newcastle Acacia 5 Drawer Tallboy and Manchester Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy both land on 114cm, and the London Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy goes to 120cm. The number that never changes is 45cm of depth, and it is the one worth writing on your hand. In a bedroom, depth is what you lose from the walkway beside the bed, and 45cm out from the wall is the same loss whichever piece you buy. Everything else about this decision is a trade between wall and height. Five Drawers That Are Not Five Equal Drawers Every tallboy here uses the same layout: two narrow drawers side by side across the top, then three full width drawers below. It looks like a styling choice and it is not. A single wide drawer is where small items go to disappear, so the range splits the top row in two and gives you a compartment sized for the things you reach for daily. The numbers vary a little by range. The Bristol runs top drawers at 42.5 x 37 x 20.8cm and lower drawers at 87.5cm wide. The London goes narrower and taller at 39cm across the top and 22.5cm deep inside, with 80.5cm lower drawers. The Newcastle has the widest lower drawers in the range at 87.6cm, and the shallowest at 18.5cm. In use that split is what makes a tallboy work in a room where two people share one piece of furniture. The two small drawers become one each, and the three below hold the folded clothing that neither of you needs to see every morning. A chest cannot make that division because all six of its drawers are the same size. London Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy London Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy [products-of-collection collection="tallboy" heading="Shop Cedora Tallboys" limit="6" columns="3" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-drawers-1"] Six Drawers That Really Are Six Equal Drawers The chests take the opposite approach: two columns of three identical drawers, 59cm to 63cm wide depending on the range, all the same size within a given piece. Nothing on a chest is sized for small items, and that is the design decision that shapes what it is good at. Interior heights are where the ranges genuinely separate. The Liverpool Pine 6 Drawer Chest - Black and its natural twin run 24.6cm deep inside, the deepest drawer in the catalogue. The Manchester sits at 20.6cm, the Bristol at 20.3cm, the London at 19.1cm, and the Newcastle at 16cm, which is a full 8.6cm shallower than the Liverpool. That range matters more than the drawer count. A 16cm drawer takes folded t-shirts and flattens anything thicker. A 24.6cm drawer takes a stack of jumpers without compressing the one on the bottom into a sheet. If you buy chests by looking at the outside, all five of these look identical, and inside they are not. Liverpool Pine 6 Drawer Chest - Natural Liverpool Pine 6 Drawer Chest - Natural [products-of-collection collection="chest" heading="Shop Cedora Chests of Drawers" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-drawers-2"] The Capacity Gap Is Smaller Than the Width Gap Multiply the internal dimensions out and the comparison becomes concrete. In the London range the tallboy holds roughly 275 litres against the chest at 259. In the Newcastle range it is 243 against 226. Both times the five drawer tallboy, on 40cm less wall, wins. The other three go the other way by similar margins. Manchester is 260 litres for the tallboy against 270 for the chest, Bristol 267 against 282. Only Liverpool breaks the pattern properly, where those 24.6cm drawers give the chest about 344 litres against 282 for the tallboy, a genuine 22 percent gap. So the honest summary is this: outside the Liverpool range, the number of drawers tells you nothing about capacity. The chest is 40 percent wider and holds within eight percent of the same volume, because the tallboy simply stacks the same drawer area upward instead of spreading it sideways. London Pine 6 Drawer Chest London Pine 6 Drawer Chest What the Extra 40cm of Wall Actually Buys If it is not capacity, it is the top. A chest at 85cm puts a usable surface at hip height, which is the height a kitchen bench is built at for the same reason. That surface holds a lamp, a tray, a folded pile of washing waiting two days to be put away, and it is where the matching mirror goes. A tallboy top at 110cm or 120cm is a different object. It is above the eye line of anyone sitting on the bed and just below the eye line of anyone standing, which makes it good for a plant and useless as a place to get ready. Nothing you put up there gets seen properly, and nothing you put up there is easy to reach. There is a second cost to height, and it is a safety one. A loaded tallboy is top heavy, and a child who opens the lower drawers and climbs them can bring the whole piece down. Anchor anything over a metre to a wall stud or a rated plasterboard fixing, and do it on the day it arrives rather than the weekend after. Newcastle Acacia 5 Drawer Tallboy Newcastle Acacia 5 Drawer Tallboy Which One the Room Picks for You Start with the wall rather than the wardrobe. One clear run of 140cm with nothing crossing it, no door swing and no robe track, and the chest is the better buy every time: same storage, better surface, lower profile in a small room. That run is rarer in Australian bedrooms than people expect once the bed, the robe and the window are placed. If what you actually have is a metre of wall in a corner, between a window and a door frame, the tallboy is not a compromise. It is the piece designed for that gap, and outside the Liverpool range it gives up almost nothing in return. Check the height against the window sill and the light switch before ordering, because the difference between the 100cm Liverpool and the 120cm London decides whether it passes under or blocks it. The rooms that need both are the ones with two people and one wardrobe, and there the split is easy: the chest with its mirror takes the long wall and does the morning routine, and the tallboy takes the corner and swallows everything seasonal. Between the tallboy range and the chests, the room decides, not the drawer count. Frequently Asked Questions Does a tallboy hold less than a chest of drawers? Barely. Measured drawer by drawer, four of the five Cedora ranges put the tallboy and the chest within eight percent of each other, and in the London and Newcastle ranges the five drawer tallboy actually holds more than the six drawer chest. What are the standard dimensions of a tallboy and a chest? Across this range every six drawer chest is 140cm wide, 45cm deep and 85cm high. Every five drawer tallboy is 100cm wide and 45cm deep, with heights from 100cm to 120cm depending on the range. Depth is the one number that never changes. Why does a tallboy have two small drawers at the top? Because a full width drawer is a bad home for small things. The two top drawers run 38cm to 43cm wide, which suits socks, underwear, belts and jewellery, while the three below run 80cm to 88cm wide for folded jumpers and denim. Which is better for a small bedroom? The tallboy, on floor space alone. It occupies 0.45 square metres against the chest at 0.63, which is 40 percent less floor for a similar amount of storage. The trade is that you lose the usable surface at hip height. Do tallboys need to be anchored to the wall? Yes. Anything over a metre tall with drawers that pull out is top heavy once the upper drawers are loaded, and a child climbing an open drawer can bring it over. Fix it to a stud or use a rated plasterboard anchor, particularly in a child's room. Related Posts Tallboy vs Chest of Drawers: Which One Should You Choose? Chest of Drawers Height: Standard Sizes and Choosing Guide How to Choose a Tallboy: The Ultimate Guide for Bedroom Storage Stay in the loop Get styling ideas and early access to new arrivals, straight to your inbox.

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Pine has a reputation problem in this country, and it is not entirely undeserved. Say the word and most people picture a flat-pack bookshelf, an unfinished student desk, or the orange-tinged bedroom suite that came with a rental in 1998. It is the timber people assume they are settling for. So it is worth knowing that pine sits inside 105 of the 128 pieces Cedora currently sells, across six of its eight ranges, and that in not one of them is it what you look at. It is under paint, under an oak top, under veneer, or holding up a set of solid oak legs. Here is where it goes and why that is a deliberate decision rather than a corner cut. Key Takeaways Pine is in 105 of 128 active pieces, across six of the eight ranges. Only Byron and Oxford contain no pine. Both are solid acacia. In every range pine is structural, never the visible finish. London, Manchester and Newcastle paint over it. Bristol tops it with oak. Liverpool veneers it. Richmond pairs a pine structure with solid oak legs. What Pine Is Actually Doing in There Structural timber has a different job from surface timber, and the qualities that make a good frame are not the ones that make a good tabletop. A frame needs to stay dimensionally stable through a Melbourne winter and a Brisbane summer, hold a screw without splitting, and not weigh so much that a bed cannot be carried up a staircase. Pine does all three, which is why it has held the job for a century. What it does not do well is sit exposed on a surface that gets used. It is softer than oak or acacia, so it takes a dent where they would take a scratch, and bare pine yellows unevenly in Australian light. Both of those problems disappear the moment the timber is painted, topped or veneered, which is precisely what every Cedora range does with it. So the honest way to read a spec sheet that says solid pine structure is not "this is a cheap timber". It is "the money in this piece went somewhere you will actually see". Whether that trade is a good one depends entirely on where the maker then spent it, which is the useful comparison between the ranges. London and Manchester: Pine Under Paint Twenty-two pieces between them, all listed as a solid pine structure, all finished in crisp white. This is the most straightforward use of the timber in the catalogue, and the one where the logic is clearest. Paint does not care about grain. A painted panel on pine and a painted panel on oak look identical from a metre away, and one of them costs a great deal more to make. What that buys instead is detail. Both ranges carry panelled fronts, moulded edges and a plinth base, all of which are shaping and joinery rather than material. Put the budget into a plain hardwood carcass and you get plain furniture in nice timber. Put it into pine and profiling and you get the London Pine 6 Drawer Chest at W140 x D45 x H85cm, or the Manchester Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy at W100 x D45 x H114cm, both of which read as considerably more expensive than they are. Pine also earns its place structurally in the bed frames. The London Pine Queen Bed Frame with 2 Drawers carries two drawers in its footboard on metal runners, and a drawer that runs on a frame needs that frame to stay square for years. A light, stable timber is not a compromise there. It is the correct engineering answer. Manchester Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy Manchester Pine 5 Drawer Tallboy [products-of-collection collection="hamptons-bedroom-furniture" heading="Painted Pine Bedroom Furniture" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-pine-1"] Bristol: Pine Under an Oak Top Bristol's eight pieces take a different route. The material is recorded as an oak top on a solid pine structure, which splits the piece along exactly the line where it matters: hardwood on the horizontal surfaces that take wear, pine in the vertical carcass that does not. It is the most efficient version of the idea in the catalogue. On a Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest the only part that meets a lamp base, a set of keys or a coffee cup is oak. The sides, the back and the drawer boxes are pine, and nothing about that is visible or, frankly, relevant to how the piece lives. You pay for hardwood on the square metre that needs it. Bristol is also the range that shows what pine buys you in flexibility. Its queen frame is 162.4cm wide against 169cm for the painted Hamptons frames, and the tallboy is 110cm tall rather than 114cm or 120cm. Lighter structural timber makes those proportions easier to draw, and in a small bedroom the few centimetres are worth more than the material story. Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest Bristol Pine 6 Drawer Chest Liverpool and Richmond: Under Veneer, Behind Oak Legs The two largest ranges use pine in the two remaining ways. Liverpool, at forty pieces, is listed as a solid pine frame with oak veneer across thirty-four of them, and the six bed frames as pine with MDFV oak and a fabric headboard. Veneer gets a bad name it has not deserved for decades: a thin oak surface over a stable pine core is more dimensionally reliable across a wide panel than solid oak is, because it does not move with the seasons the same way. Richmond takes the opposite approach across its twenty-seven pieces, pairing a pine structure with solid oak legs. The oak goes exactly where the load and the knocks concentrate, at the corners a chair hits every day, and the pine does the spanning work in between. The Richmond Pine Dining Table 240cm - Natural is a two and a half metre span held up by that combination. Between the two, that is sixty-seven of the 105 pine pieces, and neither of them is sold as pine furniture. Nobody browsing the Liverpool range is thinking about the frame under the veneer, which is rather the point of a well-made frame. Richmond Pine Dining Table 240cm - Natural Richmond Pine Dining Table 240cm - Natural Should You Care That It Is Pine Only in two situations, and it is worth being direct about both. The first is if you are buying an exposed timber surface and the spec sheet says pine with no top and no veneer, which in this catalogue does not happen, but does happen elsewhere. Bare pine on a dining table will show every fork and every hot mug within a year. The second is weight and permanence. Pine-framed furniture is lighter, which is a genuine advantage in a rental or a house you rearrange, and a mild disadvantage if you want a piece that feels immovable. A solid hardwood chest announces itself when you push it. A painted pine one of the same size does not, and some people want that heft. Everything else is noise. Care is the same as for any sealed timber furniture: wipe rather than soak, mats under hot dishes, and keep pieces out of unfiltered afternoon sun. The structure underneath will outlast your interest in the colour, which is the most anyone should ask of a frame. Bristol Pine Queen Bed Frame [products-of-collection collection="liverpool" heading="Pine Framed, Oak Veneered" limit="8" columns="4" columns_mobile="2" section_id="blog-pine-2"] Frequently Asked Questions How much of Cedora's range is pine? Pine appears in 105 of the 128 pieces currently in the range, across six of the eight collections. Only Byron and Oxford contain no pine at all. In every one of those 105 pieces it is structural rather than the visible finish. Is pine furniture strong enough for a bed frame? Yes, and it is the standard choice for one. Pine is stable, holds a fixing well and is light enough that a queen frame can be moved by two people. Cedora's London, Manchester and Bristol bed frames all use a solid pine structure with a slat base. Does pine dent more easily than oak? It does. Pine is softer, so it takes a dent where a harder timber would take a scratch. It matters on a surface and barely matters on a frame, which is why Cedora paints it, tops it or veneers it rather than leaving it exposed. Which Cedora ranges have no pine? Byron and Oxford. Both are built from solid acacia, with an MDF back panel on the sideboards and TV units. Everything else in the catalogue has pine somewhere inside it. Why is painted pine cheaper than solid hardwood? Because the money goes where it does work. A painted frame does not need the grain of an expensive board, so the budget moves to the parts you see and touch. That is the trade behind most of the price gap between ranges. 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