Floating Nightstands

Floating nightstands, wall mounted bedside tables and hanging night stands

Every piece on this page mounts to the wall. The simplest are a shelf with one drawer under it. From there the range works up through two drawer wall mounted units, designs that pair a drawer with an open slot for a book or a charger, and pieces that add a small cabinet with doors below. Widths run from extra mini through to large and chunky bodies with a deep top surface, and a few designs are sold as a set of two so both sides of the bed match.

A good part of the range is solid wood, built in mango wood with curved edges, rounded corners and crescent fronts, shown in chestnut, oak, natural and walnut finishes where the grain stays visible. Alongside those sit painted and wood-finished designs in white, black, light gray, wenge, beige, blue and smoke gray, aimed at rooms where the nightstand should disappear into the wall rather than stand out from it.

Size is really two decisions: how wide and how high. For width, work backwards from what lives on it. A lamp, a phone and a glass need more top surface than a phone alone, and the mini and extra mini bodies are meant for the second case, often in a room where the bed is already close to a wall or a corner. For height, the usual rule is to set the top surface level with the top of your mattress or slightly above it, so you can reach a glass without sitting up. Because these mount to the wall, that height is yours to choose, which is the main advantage over a legged bedside table.

The specs that matter here are about the wall, not the furniture. Check the weight capacity stated on the listing and treat it as a limit for a lamp, a book and a phone rather than anything heavy. Check the depth, because a unit that projects far from the wall beside a narrow walkway becomes something to catch a hip on. Then check what your wall is: fixing into studs is always the strongest result, and hollow walls need anchors rated for the load. Each listing states the fixings supplied, and it is worth buying anchors suited to your own wall if yours differ.

A floating nightstand is the right answer in a small bedroom, because clear floor makes the room read larger and a vacuum passes straight underneath. It also suits a room where the bed sits at an unusual height, a platform bed low to the ground or a taller frame, since a legged bedside table is fixed at one height and this is not. The solid wood curved designs suit a warm, natural room; the painted units suit a minimal one; and the shallow shelf-style pieces work well in a guest room or a child's room where a full bedside table would crowd the space.