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[Desertdi]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

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@Desertdi wrote:

My nightstands.....are in the living room as end tables.    The bedroom doesn't even LOOK like a bedroom.   Have a daybed that looks more like a sofa (studio couch).....two desks, two bookcases.....................

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@Desertdi  I bet those bookcases are Origami? 

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@Kachina624   One Origami (red), and the other matches the desk (oak)

[Spurt]

@Kachina624  I do like the mismatched bed table look.....

Due to the size of my bedroom and with my dresser and a big amoire and also a TV on an antique table......I only have room for one beside table.  My furniture coordinates but isn't matchy matchy......

My aunt always had an eye for design and she suggested the mismatched look for my sister and it really looks nice, gives the room and added zing....She always said she was ahead of her time, and I guess she was right!

@homedecor1

I think the tables would look good in your living room/den.... I especially like the one with the slated wood on the top.....  In fact, when my friend bought some new living room furniture, the decorator at the store recommended 2 end tables for her living room and the styles look much like the ones you pictured.....I think they look good in her living room

[Spurt]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

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@RedTop wrote:

I have never had bedside tables, nor do I intend to ever have bedside tables.   The less furniture in my bedroom, the better.   

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I don't know how people get along without a table by the bed for essentials like a lamp, telephone, clock, glass of water, notepad, fingernail file, etc. 

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@Kachina624

I too like a bedside table for my lamp, clock, the book I'm reading, and I tuck a small box of tissues in the drawer......

[insomniac2]

I have a three-shelf bookcase next to my bed. The top shelf holds a lamp, clock, and the like.

[chrystaltree]

I think the eclectic look has always been instyle.  Right now, I'm using those storage ottomans as our bedside table, I turned the top over and the flat surfaces holds or bedise lamps and our cell phones perfectly.  That was intended to be a hack just until I found tables that I really wanted to use but now I like them.  Our bedroom set is black, the ottomans are black....it all works.  I've seen the round bedside tables with table cloths and I like that look.  But I actually don't give much thought to what's "in style" when it comes to home decor.  What's "in style" doesn't even factor into anything when I'm decorating my home.  I just like my home to a reflection of who we are. 

[151949]

All my adult life I never had a matching bedroom set. When we moved to Florida we decided to get a matched set with a king size bed. So now I finally have my matching set - they go out of style! sigh.

[JeanLouiseFinch]

I couldn't imagine not having a nightstand.  DH and I each have one.  Where else would one put a small lamp, clock, lotion, tv remote, etc.?  I painted our nightstands last year.  They're each different in design, but have the same colors of paint.

[giddy up]

I had two mismatched night stands for decades and decades.  Until a year or so ago when I purchased a matching set of them.  I needed something new after buying that tall Serta mattress.  My old stands were too short looking and I couldn't see my clock unless I lifted my head up and looked down off the side of the bed.  So I found a couple of 31" tall night stands that I liked.   They have three drawers beneath the top something I wanted instead of open shelving that collects dust. Now I have extra room for storing whatever in the drawers.  Between the two night stands I have plenty of elevated surface for two mismatched small lamps, clock, TV remotes, inside/outside temperature display, controller for heated mattress pad, and a couple of flameless candles.   I actually prefer the symmetry of the two night stands now that I have them.