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iPormis guides

Long form guides to the furniture in our range: how to buy a bed frame that stays silent, how big a dining table a room can actually take, and what the American furniture safety rules require. Written in house, with tables rather than adjectives, and sourced where they touch safety.

The Bed Frame Guide: Slats, Storage and Why Beds Squeak

The Bed Frame Guide: Slats, Storage and Why Beds Squeak

Three numbers decide whether a frame is still solid in year three: slat spacing, weight rating and how much support runs down the centre. Here is what each one does, what a storage frame gives up to hold your winter coats, and how to size a bed before you fall for a headboard.

17 min read
How Big a Dining Table Do You Actually Need

How Big a Dining Table Do You Actually Need

The seat count on the box is not the seat count in your room. The arithmetic that decides it, why a round table holds more people than it looks like it should, and the case for an extendable top that spends most of its life closed.

15 min read
Anchoring, Tip-Over and the Rules Behind Storage Furniture

Anchoring, Tip-Over and the Rules Behind Storage Furniture

A chest of drawers that meets the standard can still go over. What the STURDY rule changed in 2023, what a bunk bed is required to do, what the formaldehyde label on the carton certifies, and the ten minute job that matters more than any of it.

16 min read

Each guide links to the models it is written around, and every one of those pages carries the same specification table. The whole catalogue is on iPormis.

The whole catalogue, one place

One hundred and thirty one models across five rooms, each with its sizes, its weight rating and its options.

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