Bedside tables

Height is the main parameter

A bedside table should be level with the mattress or a few centimetres higher. This is not about looks but about convenience: reaching a glass of water or your phone without getting up.

A table that is too low makes you lean over; one that is too high looks bulky next to the bed.

Work out the height of your bed including the mattress — and tell our manager. If the bed is ours, we already have these figures.

What to keep by the bed

The classic set: a lamp, a phone, a book, a glass of water. Plus a drawer for things that should be out of sight — medicines, chargers, odds and ends.

That is why one drawer plus an open compartment works better than two closed ones: some things should be at hand without opening anything.

Two bedside tables or one

If the bed is a double and two of you sleep in it — two. This is not about symmetry but about each person having their own surface.

One bedside table makes sense for a single bed or when one side of the bed is against the wall.

Material

We make it from E1-class MDF and chipboard, 18 mm thick. E1 is a formaldehyde emission class under the European classification — the level permitted for furniture in living spaces. It is a specific technical class of board, not an advertising phrase like “quality materials”: we have the certificate for the board, and you can request it together with the invoice.

Laser edging, from 0.4 to 2 mm depending on where it goes. The laser fuses the edge to the board without a glue line — the thin dark strip that yellows and peels over time on ordinary PVC edging. Visible edges get a thicker band, inner ones a thinner band: a thick edge inside would only eat into the usable space.

You choose the colour and combination of materials together with our manager — not from three options in a drop-down list, but to suit your interior. Before production starts, we prepare a visual in the chosen material: you see exactly how your bedside table will look before we start making it.

Dimensions and functions are not fixed either. Height to suit a specific bed, width, depth, number of drawers — all of this can be adjusted to your space and your habits. The model in the catalogue is a starting point, not a fixed product.

A set for the bedroom

This is the category where buying separately makes almost no sense. Our bedside tables come in the same lines as our beds and chests of drawers: Chill, Mode, Nagri, Deshi.

A match in texture and shade is noticeable in a bedroom straight away — and “similar” looks worse than identical.