What do you use for a night stand?

We don't have room for nightstands so we have done without! On my hubby's side of the bed, there's a dresser, and a shorter dresser next to it. The short dresser basically acts as his nightstand as his alarm clock is on it, though a lamp is on the taller dresser. On my side, I have a dresser too but it's not used as a nightstand (bunch of baby blankets on top) - and a diaper changing table. My baby wakes me up so I don't need an alarm clock - ha ha. How's that for a non traditional look! Before we got this bedroom set - I think I've used our drafting table as a nightstand. It's all funtional - I think nightstands in our small space would be a flop - ha ha.

I use a night stand. But what do you mean by no longer usable? Are you expecting it to be a certain height for a lamp or to reach things? Mine is also noticeably lower than the bed, so it's really just a table with storage...

I got a new captain's bed with a matching bookcase headboard in 2007 along with a gigantic mattress set as well. It took me months to get used to the height of it...I swore that if I fell out of bed I'd break something..my former bed was SO much lower...but the table I have next to it is a fairly decent height to compensate for the higher bed...and it's not even really a table per se, but one of those moveable wooden small TV carts on wheels and has more space for books underneath-works great! As for my clock, since I have the bookcase headboard I put it on top of there instead of the table

That's really, really cool. We haven't done anything quite so creative, but we have taken cheap, woven blankets with a pattern and used them for curtains or to cover walls and doors with lots of air leeks in the winter. They look nice and they tend to help keep the cold from coming in and making our furnace run so much. My brother does the same thing, so it's pretty common up here.

Hi jesssp. i have an antique bedroom suite & it had a matching night stand w/it when i bought it at an auction.

I use an old wooden chest as a night stand. I put my pocketbooks and magazines inside, so when I feel like reading pocketbooks before going to bed, I find it handy. On top of the chest, I've a small lamp, alarm clock, cellphone and a glass of water. By the way, I sleep on the floor atop a double bed sized foam.

hi jesssp I had a pillowtop bed and now its in storage until my son gets a job a nd we get some money for an apartment. right now I am in a room at Gold crest retirement center. we each of us have huge dressers and bedside bureaus also so we do have some storage place but the mattress here is sure not like my almost new pillowtop in storage. this year has to be our year when my son gets a good job and we can once more live together in our very own apartment. I used to have an end table that served as my bedside table in our apartment. I painted it a pale green then put a whitewash of thinned white paint over it and wiped most off leaving a pale green shining through the white mist, very pretty and was a used furniture buy.

Hi, jesssp. I don't have a nightstand at this moment. But I do put my things on the plastic container in my closet. I use this to sit some of my things on it, like my blanket for instance.

I never had a nightstand until we moved here..we just always used our dresser for the alarm, lamp and other things that we wanted to put on there. When we moved here we bought a smaller roller tv stand for our television and then a few months back my mother was getting rid of her smaller dresser and I told her that I would take it so now that is what we have our television on and I then decided to use the roller tv stand as my night stand and now it holds our alarm clock, jewelry box, lamp and lotion containers. It actually works out well because it is about the same size as our bed so we can just reach right out and grab the item the we may need.

i just have your typical bedside cabinet :) i don't use it for much really, just my lamp and my phone which i use for my alarm. And even though it is right next to my head i stil don't hear it on a morning :D

My bed is very low to the ground. And I have a lot of wall space. So I actually use a glass coffee table for a night stand. It's handy and it hold lots of bedtime accessories. Like this laptop when I am ready to go to sleep.