Your nightstand is an important part of your morning routine and bedtime ritual. The place to store all of your essentials, from tissue boxes to phone chargers, it’s easy for a bedside table to appear cluttered and messy. Enhance the way your room looks and feels by styling your nightstand with creative decorations and functional items.
Utilizing Your Nightstand’s Design
Before we dive into fun ways to style your nightstand, it’s important to know how you can best use its features for decorating.
A bedside table with drawers or cabinets offers additional storage space and a place to hide more unsightly objects, such as pill bottles or TV remotes. A nightstand that has shelves offers more surfaces for decor, books, alarm clocks, or other important items. If you have a simple table with just legs and a top, you may want to be more strategic when it comes to what you style it with. Examine your nightstand’s characteristics and see how they can best be used for your new setup.
1. Flowers and Foliage
Placing flowers and plants in your home is a simple and effective way to add beauty and elegance to your interior design. Select a colorful bouquet to add excitement, choose select flowers with colors that match your bedroom, use brown branches for a sleek look, or add greenery for a calm and natural feel. The vase or pot you use adds another element of style: play with color, shape, opacity, and texture.
When decorating with plants and flowers, you can consider a few options:
- A Potted Plant: A potted plant with big green leaves or seasonal blossoms, like an orchid, can be a stunning addition to your bedside table, and even reduce indoor air pollution. Ensure that it receives light and water to keep it from dying.
- Live Flowers or Leaves: Flowers or stems with leaves placed in a vase full of water are another popular way to decorate. Change them out as they die, and choose flowers that match the season. Avoid flowers with irritating pollen or plants you may be allergic to.
- Dried Flowers: Buy dried flowers from a floral shop, or simply hang any flowers you have collected upside down for a few days to dry out and preserve them for as long as you want on your nightstand.
2. Usable Trays
A small ceramic tray, a glass dish, or a woven basket to not only decorate your bedside table, but to hold any essentials. Place jewelry, eyewear, chapstick, hair elastics or clips, watches, perfume, pens, and any other small items in a tray to keep your nightstand tidy. Select a tray that stands out with gold or bold colors, choose a clear glass dish for a clean look, or pick a tiny woven basket for neutral tones. A tray keeps the top of your nightstand usable while elevating its look.
3. Creative Candles
A candle is a classic and easy way to style your nightstand. Positioning two or more candles together, or on different sides of the table, adds elegance and charm. Choosing cables in colorful glass jars adds a bit of color as well. If you want to really add character to the style of your bedside table, decorate with a unique candle.
Made into quirky shapes with stylized molds, you can find candles in exciting forms and colors. From candles representing the shape of a rose to abstract candles in the form of swirly pillars or warped orbs, a fun candle can add creativity and flair to your bedroom nightstand.
4. Books and Lamps
Two important objects that you will almost always see on a bedside table are a lamp and a book. The lamp you choose for your nightstand makes a big difference in its overall style. With different shapes and designs for a lamp base, and just as many options for a lamp shade, you’ll want to use a lamp that complements your nightstand while offering relaxing light for reading before bed.
Some like to stack their favorite books along the bottom shelf of a table, or choose books with certain colors to display. Place one book in the center of your nightstand for a minimalistic style, and switch it out with a new book when you are finished reading. Choose your favorite book that you want visible at all times, and place a lamp on top of it to pair the two items together when styling your table.
5. Art and Pictures
Personalize your bedside table with frames holding pictures of family members, or pieces of your favorite artwork. Stylish pieces of art can add vibrance and character to your table, while photographs create a sentimental and lively appearance.
6. Stacking Decorations
Layer pictures behind flower vases or above lamps, place candles on trays, or stack items like alarm clocks or frames on books. Styling your nightstand with items and decorations positioned together creates an eclectic and artful look.
The Perfect Nightstand for Your Home
The aesthetic of your bedside table is impacted by the quality of the table itself. With a wide selection of options, furniture engineered to last, and designs that bring sophistication to your home, Sugar House Furniture has the perfect nightstand for you. Visit our store in Salt Lake City or give us a call today.
