Best Nightstands (2026 Guide)

Crate & Barrel put a power strip inside the top drawer, and that single decision fixes the ugliest thing about most bedsides: a phone cable draped over the front edge. Two outlets and two USB ports live in the drawer, so the cord stays inside it. The rest of the piece holds up on its own. Drawers are framed in solid FSC mahogany, the glides are soft-close undermount, and at 25 inches high it lands level with a standard mattress. The floating top shelf gives you a landing spot for a book without opening anything.

Three drawers, and the useful part is that they are not the same size. The top drawer runs 13 by 11 by 4 inches inside, which is where reading glasses and a charger go. The bottom one is 28 by 11 by 9 inches, deep enough for a folded throw or a stack of books. At 34 inches wide it works as a small dresser on the side of the bed, which is the point in a bedroom with no other case goods. Pottery Barn badges it Contract Grade and offers it as a pair.

Depth is what makes a nightstand feel enormous in a small room, and at 15.75 inches the Zuma is nearly four inches shallower than the others here. It gives back the walkway. It does that without going short: 26 inches high keeps it level with a standard mattress instead of dropping to the coffee table height a lot of small nightstands settle for. Four Hands describes it as made from solid ash with gunmetal iron hardware, and the lower stretcher shelf is woven paper cord, which keeps the base from reading as a solid block.

Solid seared oak, one drawer, one shelf, and a leather panel on the shelf. There is nothing else to it, which is why it works next to almost any bed. McGee & Co lists solid seared oak and seared oak veneer with top grain leather and brass hardware, so you know which parts are solid and which are not, and that is not true of every listing in this category. At 24 by 18 by 26 inches it is the most conventional footprint here, and the drawer is soft close.

Raffia drawer fronts against solid oak are the reason to buy this one. Texture at the bedside reads differently from texture anywhere else in the house, because you look at it from three feet away every night. Arhaus builds it in 26 and 30 inch widths and three finishes, and at 24 inches high it is the shortest pick here, which suits a lower platform bed. Arhaus says plainly that individual pieces vary in color, pattern, shape and texture, which is what natural raffia does and is worth knowing before you buy two.