Getting older has a lot of interesting quirks, not the least of which is how your perspective shifts in really small, but somehow monumental ways.
I don’t know when this particular shift came about, but I know that one day I walked into my bedroom, looked at the weird, secondhand shelf I had been using as a nightstand for a few years, and decided right there that I needed to get rid of it and buy myself a quality bamboo nightstand.
Now, I will say that the days of Kmart brand furniture are not behind me yet. There are still certain things that don’t need to be nice and so those stay as they are, more function than form.
But the nightstand was an important change that I didn’t even realize I needed because I had simply gotten used to falling asleep next to what was essentially a small tower of well-placed garbage.
Not great.
Our surroundings matter more than you might think about actively, but the things we keep in our environment subconsciously affect us all the time. And honestly, furniture is a huge part of our space on a day-to-day basis.
Maybe your kitchen table and couch are forgotten when you get ready to go to sleep at night, but having a nice bamboo nightstand was just an awesome upgrade from the poorly constructed and shoddy aesthetics of what I had before and made a big difference.
I set out on the hunt with a vague idea of what I wanted – sustainable, beautiful, built to last – and found a few more bamboo nightstands than I had bargained to find!
In this article, I’ll show you a few of the ones I found and liked during my search.
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Best Overall
I had a very, very hard time picking out the best overall bamboo nightstand because of all the great choices out there, but I know a lot of folks are coming here for nothing but the king of the nightstand kingdom.
If furniture royalty is what you’re after, then you’ve definitely come to the right place!
For my furniture articles, the different items pretty much do the same thing with very few exceptions. So in most cases, my best is usually going to be about the look of the product and the build quality, and this item knocks those categories out of the park.
The Foundry Select Hugoton bamboo nightstand is absolutely gorgeous, a very minimalistic appearance that doesn’t come off as plain due to the inset side panels and bamboo grain.
Another thing I really like is the legs, as a few of the bamboo nightstands in this article sit directly on the ground with no legs. I don’t have anything against that, but the slight angle of the legs outwards gives this piece added stability and style, which I’m a fan of.
Storage is a big component as well. If you read my Best Bamboo Shelves article, you know that I am one of those humans possessed by the crow mind who ends every day with a pile of stuff in my pockets.
The Hugoton has a drawer that is sizable without being absurdly deep, and it also has a sizeable shelf underneath the drawer for anything from a white noise machine to a few backup water bottles to keep you hydrated in the night!
All in all, this is a beautiful and functional bamboo nightstand.
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