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Bedside Tables

Somewhere between the water glass, the reading glasses and last night's book, the bedside table quietly runs the room. Early Settler's designs come in solid timber, marble, bone inlay and painted finishes, with one to three drawers or open shelving, built to outlast whatever the bedroom looks like next.

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  • Deva Bedside with Marble Top Natural

    $499.00 $299.00

  • Vincent 1 Drawer Bedside Table Walnut

    $199.00 $159.00

  • Adore Marble Top Single Drawer Bedside Table

    $449.00 $349.00

  • Amour Marble Top Single Drawer Bedside

    $449.00 $299.00
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  • Fig 2 Drawer Bedside Table

    $349.00 $249.00

  • Maisie 1 Drawer Bedside Pink

    $199.00 $149.00

  • Valentine Bedside Table White

    $199.00 $149.00

  • Hampton Bedside Table

    $599.00 $399.00

  • Maisie 1 Drawer Bedside Green

    $199.00 $149.00

  • Curve 2 Drawer Bedside

    $299.00 $239.00

  • Hopper Mid-Century 2 Drawer Side Table Natural Brown

    $299.00 $199.00

  • Sadara Bone Inlay Bedside

    $449.00 $299.00

  • Willa 1 Drawer Bedside Table Black

    $249.00 $169.00

  • Colby 2 Drawer Bedside

    $299.00 $199.00

  • Emilie 1 Drawer Bedside Table

    $399.00 $299.00

  • Fulham 1 Drawer Bedside Table

    $249.00 $149.00

  • Avalon Small 2 Drawer Bedside Black

    $449.00 $349.00

  • Clover 3 Drawer Bedside Table

    $399.00 $299.00

  • Sansha Bedside Dove Grey

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  • Bone Inlay Bedside Light Grey

    $699.00 $499.00

  • Deva Bedside with Marble Top Black

    $499.00 $299.00

  • Harden 2 Drawer Bedside Table

    $399.00 $299.00

  • Oakridge 3 Drawer Bedside Light Oak

    $399.00 $299.00

  • Spintara 1 Drawer Bedside Table Light Oak

    $399.00 $299.00

  • Sansha Bedside Sage Green

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  • Maldon 2 Drawer Bedside Table

    $299.00 $229.00

  • Clover 1 Drawer Bedside Table / Side Table

    $349.00 $249.00

  • Saige 3 Drawer Bedside Table

    $449.00 $329.00

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Your phone, a book, a glass of water, the reading glasses you swore you left right there. It all has to go somewhere, and the floor beside the bed is not it.

Early Settler's bedside tables give that pile a proper home. One drawer through three, plus cabinet and open shelf styles in solid timber, marble, rattan, metal, upholstered and painted finishes. Many are designed by our Melbourne design team, so they sit happily alongside the rest of your bedroom furniture, not just near it.


What is a bedside table?

A bedside table is the low storage piece that sits beside your bed, usually with a drawer, a shelf or a small cupboard, and it holds whatever you want within arm's reach at night. Bedside tables & nightstands are the same thing, just different words for it. A side table does a similar job elsewhere in the house.


What makes one bedside table cost more than another?

Price tracks materials and construction more than size. A painted board design costs less to build than solid timber, and you feel the difference in the weight of the drawer and the way it runs. Decorative finishes like hand-set bone inlay and natural marble tops are priced for the handwork rather than the timber underneath.


How high should a bedside table be?

Bedside tables should sit level with the top of your mattress, or within about 5cm either way. Most land between 55cm and 65cm tall, and a common size across our range is 65cm high by 40cm square. Measure from the floor to your mattress top rather than trusting the number on the label, because two beds of the same height can differ by 10cm once the mattress goes on.

Get it right and you can reach for a glass of water in the dark without looking. Your lamp also sits where the light falls on the page instead of in your eyes. Tall bed with a deep mattress? That's where a three-drawer design earns its keep.


How do I choose the right size bedside table for my bedroom?

Match the width to your bed, roughly 40cm to 60cm for a queen or king, and leave at least 60cm of walking space between the bed and the wall. Anything wider than your mattress edge stops being handy and starts being something you bump into at 2am.

Three numbers worth measuring before you shop:

  • Width – Keep it under two-thirds of your bedside gap so the drawer opens fully.
  • Depth – 35cm to 45cm holds a lamp and a book without jutting past the bed.
  • Clearance – Narrow bedside tables from 30cm wide suit tight rooms, and small bedside tables work well in guest bedrooms.

Bring your measurements into any of our 54 Australian stores, and someone will walk the range with you.


Should I choose a bedside table with drawers or open shelves?

Drawers win if you want the bedside to look calm, because chargers, hand cream and half-read receipts all disappear behind a front. A 2-drawer bedside table handles most people's clutter, and a 3-drawer design suits anyone who keeps more than they admit.

Open shelves earn their place for readers who want a stack within reach, and they make a small room feel lighter. Shelves also mean nothing gets forgotten at the back. Want both? A single drawer over an open shelf splits the difference nicely.

Sharing the bed? Go drawers. Tight room? Go open shelves. Rattan bedside tables with open shelving and a painted frame keep a small room feeling lighter again. Runners and handles cop the most use either way, and every Early Settler bedside table comes with a 12-month warranty.

 

What is the best bedside table material for Australian homes?

Solid timber is the best choice for most Australian bedrooms, because it takes knocks, ages well and holds its value long after a board piece has started to swell at the corners. Everything else on this page is a trade for price, weight or looks.

What each material actually gives you:

  • Solid timber – Our solid American oak bedside table designs are waxed and sealed, so a mark can be waxed back out rather than lived with.
  • Timber blends – A wood bedside table built from oak, pinewood, MDF veneer and plywood gives you pine warmth at a friendlier price.
  • Rubberwood – Paired with cedarwood drawers, rubberwood comes from plantations after latex production ends.
  • Metal – Slim frames that hold a narrow footprint without looking heavy.
  • Painted board – MDF and melamine take colour beautifully, so whites and blacks stay smooth and even.
  • Bone inlay – Hand-set patterning on pieces meant to be looked at. Dust it, don't scrub it.
  • Marble – Natural marble tops have veining unique to each piece. Marble is porous, so a coffee cup left overnight will leave a ring.

Timber bedside tables across the range use sustainably sourced and reclaimed timbers wherever we can get them.

 

Do bedside tables have to match your bed?

No. One shared element is all you need, a timber tone, a hardware finish or a warm-versus-cool colour temperature carried through both pieces.

Colour is the easiest place to start. White bedside tables lift a dark bed frame, black bedside tables ground a pale timber or cream headboard, grey sits comfortably against almost anything, and green warms up a room of neutrals. If picking a tone feels like guesswork, coordinated collections like Clover, Emilie, Avalon, Daylesford, Spintara and Maldon take the decision off your hands, since the bedside and the bed already share a finish.

Shape is the other lever, and it's where you decide how matched you want the room to feel. Two identical tables read calm and symmetrical. Two deliberately different ones look collected rather than bought in one trip, which is why mid-century legs sit so happily beside modern bedside tables with rounded profiles.

 

What should you keep on and in your bedside table?

Three things on top, everything else inside. Table lamps should sit roughly two-thirds the height of the table, tall enough to light a page without shining in your eyes, and past a lamp, a book and a glass of water, the surface starts looking like bedroom décor gone rogue.

What the drawer is actually for:

  • Chargers live in the drawer so the cable disappears instead of coiling across the top.
  • Hand cream and lip balm stay reachable at midnight and invisible by morning.
  • Medication sits out of sight but still within arm's reach.
  • Reading glasses finally have a home, which means you stop losing them.

 

Sort the rest of your bedroom with Early Settler

One good bedside table has a way of making everything around it look unfinished. The lamp is usually first to go, then the bed frame starts feeling like the odd one out.

From there, bedroom storage picks up the rest. Tallboys and chests of drawers handle what the bedside can't, and mirrors, rugs and bed linen fill in the edges. We stock 15+ categories across every room of the house, right through to outdoor, so the dining table you buy next year still looks like it belongs with everything else.

Home Club is free to join and gives you $20 off your first purchase and 10% off full-priced items, in-store and online. Shopping online and prefer to collect? We can send your order to your chosen store. Pop in when it suits, and have a wander through the rest of the range while you're there.

 

FAQs

What can I use instead of a bedside table?

A small chest of drawers, a stool, a stack of books or a wall-mounted shelf all work beside a bed. Renters often use a floating shelf to save floor space. If the issue is width rather than the table itself, a narrow design from around 30cm across usually solves it.

Should you have a lamp on each bedside table?

Yes, if two people share the bed, because one person reading shouldn't mean the other one can't sleep. In a single-occupant room, one lamp is plenty. The two lamps don't have to match, though keeping them the same height keeps the room feeling balanced.

Should a bedside table be against a wall?

Not necessarily. Push it flush to the wall in a tight room to protect walking space, or leave a small gap so cables can run behind it. What matters more is that the table sits within arm's reach of the pillow, not that it touches anything.