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Belmont Bench Dye lot —

Occasional · Piece· made to order

Belmont Bench

★★★★½6 reviews

Cut from the same bolt of fabric as your bed

The bench, hand-upholstered in Britain

£659.00

Or 3 interest-free payments of £219.66 With Shop Pay

Width117cm
Depth48cm
Height50cm
Seat height35cm
→Order it with your bed And both are cut from the same roll, in the same week, by the same hand.
→One delivery, Fully assembled. There is nothing in a box.
→Lead time Weeks, the same as your bed. It delays nothing.
Belmont Bench

Why people regret waiting

Almost the same colour

Fabric is dyed in batches. Two rolls of the same cloth, dyed six months apart, are not the same colour. They are close. Close is what you notice every single morning.

This is the one thing a bench bought later cannot fix. Not a returns problem, not a quality problem. A dye lot problem.

Order it now and it matches. Order it later and we get it close.

Almost the same colour

Both of these are the colour you chose above. Both are correct to specification. Shown as an illustration of dye-lot drift, not a photograph of stock.

The lay plan · cutting room

One roll, or two

This is roughly what our cutter works from. Every panel of your bed nested on a single bolt, 140cm wide, in the colour you just chose. The bench takes the space at the end of the run.

Fabric lay plan comparing ordering the bench with the bed against ordering it later Ordered together, bed and bench panels nest on one bolt from a single dye lot. Ordered later, the bench panels move to a second bolt from a different dye lot in a slightly different colour. Bolt 01 · pebble · lot BG-4417 · 140cm Headboard front Headboard back Side rail L Side rail R Foot end Bench seat Arm L Arm R Bolster 1 Bolster 2 Caps ×4 BenchNests in The sameRun Your bed Your bench · same lot Bolt 02 · pebble · lot BG-5106 · six months later Bench seat Arm L Arm R Bolsters New bolt. New dye lot. Close, not the same. And a second delivery charge.
Same roll

Bed and bench panels nest inside one cutting run. Identical dye lot, identical pile direction, identical hand.

Same week

Both pieces move through the workshop together. Same machinist, same tension on the seams, same batch of thread.

One delivery

Two men, one van, one appointment. Ordering later means paying to move a van twice.

Twenty years of doing this

We cut for Britain's most prestigious bed brands long before we sold under our own name. The lay plan is not marketing. It is Tuesday.

The £109 ottoman box on a marketplace cannot tell you which roll it came from. That is the entire difference, and it is the only argument this page needs to make.

Before you commit

Will it actually fit at the foot of your bed?

The most common reason an end-of-bed bench goes back is that it was the wrong length for the bed. Here is the honest arithmetic, so you measure once and stop worrying.

Your bed Frame width Gap each side Verdict
Single 3'0 93cm overhangs 12cm Too wide. The Harington at 90cm square is the piece for a single.
Small Double 4'0 123cm 3cm Almost flush with the frame. Fits, but the line reads tight.
Double 4'6 138cm 10.5cm The best proportion in the range. 85% of the frame.
King 5'0 153cm 18cm Ideal. 76% of the frame, which is the classic setting.
European King 163cm 23cm Good. Still reads deliberate.
Super King 6'0 183cm 33cm Starts to read undersized. Consider the Chesterfield Ottoman at 145cm.
Emperor 203cm 43cm Too small alone. Two Haringtons side by side come to 180cm.

The number people forget

With a King, you need 318cm from the headboard wall to whatever is opposite. That is 210cm of bed, 48cm of bench, and 60cm to walk past without turning sideways. On a Double it is 308cm.

Why it does not block the bed

The Belmont stands 50cm high. Your mattress top sits at roughly 61 to 66cm on our bases, so the bench finishes 11 to 16cm below it. It reads as a line at the foot of the bed rather than a wall across it.

Frame widths are the external dimensions of our own bed frames, not mattress sizes, because the bench sits against the frame. Every figure in this table is measured, not estimated.

Plan view · King 5'0 Headboard Frame 153 × 210cm The Belmont 117 × 48 117cm 18cm each side 48 Walk past, 60cm Room depth 318cm

Straight answers

What the Belmont Bench is not

Saying this plainly costs a few sales and saves every return. It also tells you the rest of the page is true.

What it is

  • A bench for the foot of the bed, long enough to sit on and put your shoes on.
  • Solid timber frame, four tapered legs in your choice of Dark or Light wood, hand stitched seat.
  • Available in every fabric in our range, and in custom fabrics on request.
  • A cylindrical bolster cushion at each end, capped with a contrast button. Also works in a hallway or a bay window.

What it is not

  • Not a storage bench. The seat is fixed and there is nothing inside it.
  • Not a sofa. Low scrolled arms and no back, so it is made to perch on rather than sink into.
  • Not buttoned or channelled. A plain seat looks cleaner and shows creasing more than a buttoned one would.
  • Not stocked. It is upholstered to order.

Construction

Four things worth knowing

Frame

Solid timber, not board

A hardwood frame that takes an adult's weight on the arm, not a stapled particleboard carcass with a fabric lid.

Seat

One clean stretch

No buttoning, no channelling. A plain seat is harder to upholster well because there is nowhere to hide a pull. That is the point.

Arms

Rolled, with bolsters

Each end rolls outward into a low scrolled arm. A cylindrical bolster sits in the curve, finished with a contrast button at each cap.

Legs

Tapered, splayed

Four turned legs lifting the seat clear of the floor so the line reads light against a heavy bed.

Every claim above comes from the live product description. Foam density, webbing type and rub count need a number from the workshop or they stay off the page.

The honest arithmetic

85p

A week, across the frame guarantee

£659 is a real amount of money. It is also the last decision you make about this bedroom for fifteen years. Spread across the guarantee on the frame, it is less than a coffee a fortnight, and it is the difference between a bed and a finished room.

The bench
£659
Frame guarantee
15 years
Per year
£44
Per week
85p

659 ÷ 15 = £43.93 a year, 84.5p a week. This is the bench alone, not the £824 the live page currently shows. Confirm the 15-year frame guarantee covers occasional furniture and not only bed frames.

Same cloth · same cutting run

Finish the room while the roll is open

These come off the same bolt. Add any of them now and they are cut alongside your bed. Add them next year and we are back to close enough.

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Running total, this room

£659

Assumes a king size already in your basket. One delivery, one appointment, one dye lot.

Not sure yet

Hold the cloth first

You can order swatches and receive them in a few days. Put them on the bedroom floor in your own light and decide then. Roughly one in five people who order swatches from us go on to order a bed, so we would rather you took your time.

Order swatches — they arrive in a few daysAdd to cart

The one-in-five figure comes from your own swatch-to-bed cohort analysis. Only publish it if you are happy for it to be public, and keep it broad rather than precise.