With tight quarters and budgets, you have to get creative. In making over her sister's tiny bedroom, Jenny has found a nightstand solution that's simple, affordable, and good-looking.
Jenny, of Little Green Notebook fame, used a corbel and wooden board from Michael's to create a wall-mounted spot for a drinking glass, book, or phone. Painting the nightstand the same color as the walls (Benjamin Moore's Bavarian Forest) limits visual distraction and focuses your eye on the corbel's shape.
The look is custom, the price is low, and the result is practical. For more photos and design inspiration, visit Little Green Notebook.
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I just love the colors of this room. The table is of course genius too.
My forehead now has a palm mark on it. It's such a simple and elegant solution.
Another great idea from Jenny!
This is beautiful!
Once though, I was in a hotel and, during the night turned over toward the nightstand and lifted my torso a bit; I think I was half-awake and wanted to look at the clock. Through grace and/or incredible luck, I stopped exactly short of banging my eye exactly onto the corner of the nightstand. What a scare. So ever since then I've been very careful to keep nightstands with corners at the height of the bed or lower, especially in the guestroom.
I'm a huge fan of floating shelves in small spaces; we did this years ago in our teeny tiny bedroom in our old house, using a single-shelf solid birch Varde unit (long since discontinued) from IKEA. Just enough space for an alarm clock, etc. Worked like a charm.
We still use that shelf in our condo; now it's in our entry way and holds a small basket for our keys.
I love this.
Love this and am thinking of doing it in my apartment because I feel that I already have too much by my bed and all I want is space for a lamp and a book. Any ideas on how to incorporate a little drawer too though? I'd love to add in a small drawer underneath but with the sides the way they are I don't know that that would work..
@Nancy N,
I can't think of a way to add a drawer but maybe a small basket on the side won't be too much clutter since the table fades into the wall?
Nice! I did something like this in my first apartment, but it was nowhere near as elegant. Also, I want that little turquoise plant pot!
Wow, this is fantastic! I have a tiny bedroom and this would work really well. I painted mine really dark too - BM's Almost Midnight.
WhatI like most about this is that it's off the floor, which really helps in small spaces.
If you could find a wooden single drawer unit, you could put that on top of the corbel instead of the table top, thus gaining a drawer. This sort of thing but bigger! http://www.ebay.com/itm/Unfinished-Wood-Single-Drawer-Recipe-Cabinet-New-Ready-Paint-/111007594916?_trksid=p2047675.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D11%26meid%3D5446024017547996245%26pid%3D100011%26prg%3D1005%26rk%3D2%26sd%3D121054546251%26
@Nancy N, I have seen little desk organizer units in places like Home Goods with a flat tray top (with rims), often a deeper "hole" at the back for letters or whatever, and a small drawer. I'd think you might be able to take out the drawer and screw through the back to attach this to the wall, or support it with shelf brackets, to get something like what you describe.
This has completely solved a problem for me! Looks great.
Instead of using a corbel in the middle of the shelf, you could use two decorative shaped brackets to use on either end of the shelf. Then all the underneath area would be open. If you used a shelf that was the same size or slightly bigger than the small shelves in closet systems, you could then add one of their drawers or slide-out baskets to the underside of the shelf. It would attach to the inner side of the brackets (you might have to put a strip of wood between the top of the bracket and the shelf sitting on it to make enough room to attach the rail) or the underside of the shelf.