The Langham Journal — guides to beds, furniture and your home
Practical guides to choosing, measuring and living with furniture: bed sizes and upholstery fabric, planning a slat panel wall, composite fencing and decking, dining table sizing and mirrors — plus a closer look at every piece in the bed, dining and panelling ranges.
04 Oct 2026 · Product
Fencing 88B Grey Oak: pack coverage and matching the trim
Six grey oak composite boards to a pack, 16 x 180 x 2cm each, 1.73m2 covered. The pack count for your run, and the one colour question the listing does not answer.
04 Oct 2026 · Product
Fencing 88A Oak 03: pack coverage, bay count and the code
Six composite boards to a pack, 16 x 180 x 2cm each, 1.73m2 covered. How the pack rule turns into a bay count, and why the listing asks you to quote the full code.
04 Oct 2026 · Product
88/89 End Trim: where a panel run stops, and how many to count
The cap for an open edge on 88 or 89 panelling, four 290cm lengths to a pack. How it differs from the corner section, and how to count edges rather than metres.
04 Oct 2026 · Product
88/89 Corner Trim: the eight boards it fits, and the TBC profile
Four 290cm lengths, one per external angle, for 88 and 89 panelling. The listing names all eight boards it fits but publishes the profile only as TBC.
04 Oct 2026 · Product
Wall Panel 88T Walnut: access, handling and checks on arrival
Six panels at 290cm are a long, awkward item before they are a finished wall. What to check about access and what to look at the moment a pack is opened.
04 Oct 2026 · Product
Wall Panel 88D Dark Oak: setting out corners and cut edges
The order you set a clad wall out in decides whether the last panel is a full one or a sliver. How to plan 88D dark oak around corners and open edges.
04 Oct 2026 · Product
Wall Panel 88B Grey Oak: judging the colour before you clad
Grey oak reads differently against red brick than it does against pale render. What the 88B listing states about colour and UV resistance, and what it leaves to you to verify.
04 Oct 2026 · Product
Wall Panel 88A Oak: how many packs a wall takes, and why
A 290cm length and 2.78m2 of cover per pack are the two numbers that decide an order. A worked example for a garden wall, plus the honest gaps in the listing.
04 Oct 2026 · Product
Wall Panel 89T Walnut: quoting the right code when you order
Two code families run side by side in this range at the same published size, so the full code earns its place on the order. What a pack of 89T walnut covers, and what the listing leaves open.
04 Oct 2026 · Product
Wall Panel 89D Dark Oak: what fitted and interlocked really means
Dark oak panelling at 290cm, six to a pack, 2.78m² covered. Its width is published as the fitted figure, which makes counting panels for a wall unusually easy.
04 Oct 2026 · Product
Wall Panel 89B Grey Oak: planning a corner before you order
Grey oak panelling at 290cm, six to a pack. This group names a corner trim, so a seating corner or a return wall can be planned properly from the start.
04 Oct 2026 · Product
Wall Panel 89A Oak: quote the full code, and check the coverage
An interlocking 290cm outdoor panel in oak, six to a pack and 2.78m² covered. The listing asks you to quote the full code when ordering, and it has a point.
04 Oct 2026 · Product
Lucca X-Large TV Unit: planning a 1.8m television wall
Listed at 180 x 40 x 50cm. What 1.8m needs at floor level, how to centre it, and the four things a size-only listing cannot tell you.
04 Oct 2026 · Product
Fencing 94 Trim in black: what it finishes and how many
Four black 180cm lengths to a pack, listed for 40mm concrete posts and cut to length to finish panel edges. How to count packs, and what the listing does not state.
04 Oct 2026 · Product
Fencing 94T in Walnut: pack coverage, posts and trims
Six composite boards to a pack, 180cm long and 30cm wide, covering 3.24m2 when interlocked. The measurements, the thickness worth confirming, and the posts, trims and lattices the listing names.
04 Oct 2026 · Product
Fencing 94D Dark Oak: a pack a bay, and what it sits with
Six 30cm dark oak composite boards to a pack, 3.24m2 covered, one pack to a fence panel. The arithmetic, the black fittings it pairs with, and what to confirm.
04 Oct 2026 · Product
Fencing 94B Grey Oak: wide boards, and a pack to each bay
Six 30cm grey oak composite boards to a pack, 3.24m2 covered, one pack to a fence panel. How the wide board simplifies ordering, and what to confirm first.
04 Oct 2026 · Product
Fencing 94A Oak: one pack to a bay, and why that matters
Six 30cm composite boards to a pack, 3.24m2 covered, one pack to a fence panel. The widest board width in the range, the arithmetic it simplifies, and a size figure to query.
04 Oct 2026 · Product
Wall Panel 92T Walnut compared with the interlocking panels
A slat-and-space face or an interlocked one: the range offers both, and the figures differ in ways that change your order. 92T walnut set against the 290cm panels.
04 Oct 2026 · Product
Wall Panel 92E Black: shadow lines, substrate and what shows
On a black slatted face it is the shadow between the slats that does the work. What 92E publishes, and the one thing to settle about the wall behind it.
04 Oct 2026 · Product
Wall Panel 92D Dark Oak: pack coverage and a 240cm height
Twelve panels, 4.61m2 of cover and a 240cm length that happens to match a common cladding height. Worked quantities for 92D dark oak, and the gaps in the listing.
04 Oct 2026 · Product
Wall Panel 92B Grey: the brackets and trims to order with it
Panels are the easy part of the order. The 92B grey listing recommends brackets and sells its trim separately, and neither comes in the pack.
04 Oct 2026 · Product
Wall Panel 92A Oak: the slat repeat and where it lines up
A 2.4cm slat with a 1.4cm space between is a 3.8cm repeat, and that rhythm is what you line up with a window, a light or a corner. Pack figures and honest gaps for 92A oak.
04 Oct 2026 · Product
73/83 Corner Trim: closing external angles in outdoor panelling
A pack closes three external corners on 73 or 83 panelling. How to measure an angle properly, what the seven finishes cover, and the detail to confirm before ordering.