You can get an iron bed frame that will attach to the headboard. Then place your box spring in it and put a bed skirt on over the box spring before putting your mattress on. That will hide the bed frame and leave the headboard as the star of the show. That's how these vintage headboards work.

As for bedside tables, I would go with something visually lightweight in white (which wouldn't detract from the other furniture) or in a color that would complement your bedding or other pieces in the room.

Also, have you considered a bedside table that's not a table? How about some small white floating shelves on either side of the bed?

Here are a few suggestions for table tables:

http://www.westelm.com/products/martini-side-table-g057/
http://www.westelm.com/products/bubbles-ceramic-side-table-g257/
http://www.cb2.com/peekaboo-clear-low-side-table/f7722
http://www.roomandboard.com/rnb/product/detail.do?productGroup=7571

Also, keep a look out on Craigslist for a matching tall dresser for your fiance. I got a matching dresser and dressing table from a rare mid century Lane set 3 months apart from 2 different sellers for a very reasonable price when I lived in NYC. You never know!

I like the idea of going to craiglist to try and find close matches for your end table. If not, I don't think white would go but maybe something with very light legs (material wise) with a glass top. Glass top tables usually disappear in a room unless you have really elborate legs.
The only down fall is glass is very unforgiving. You dust one day and you almost need to dust it again the next. I dust or try to dust my glass top tables every 3-4 days.
The pieces you have are WONDERFUL and I applaud you for keeping them and not wanting the change them. I wish you luck and maybe you can upload pictures of the room once completed.

Don't go all matchy. Try to just use two of these pieces (the headboard and one of the chests) in the bedroom. Get some different furniture with a different style and a different texture - something that's sleek, metal, painted (or that you can paint - maybe black or cream to keep things simple), or maybe with rattan/bamboo or the like. Break up the set by using the other pieces in other parts of the house - as a side board, media cabinet, entry table, etc.

i have no suggestions for the tall dresser, but i agree with Charlotte above that using side tables that are not wood finish and not the traditional "box with drawer" is the way to go to keep it modern (though i'd go with a pop of color like teal). i'm afraid anything too traditional would end up looking like a time warp room from the '50s rather than a fresh, contemporary room.

you may be sorry you asked since you'll get as many opinions as replies making you even more confused.

mix it up. don't stay in the same vein in the bedroom. perhaps some industrial looking metal/pipe tables.
i agree with the sleek & metal.

scatter the pieces throughout, using them in unexpected ways will net you the most bang, yet will seem cohesive from room to room

i've been doing some googling trying to find pieces that would go with what you have, but while lovely, that is a hard color to find new pieces that compliment it.

i did find this on etsy which is a pretty good match. though i do agree that if you need a tall dresser for him, i'd only keep the headboard and dresser for yourself in the bedroom and use the bachelor's chest somewhere else like the dining room and the box as storage in the living room.

and i think i forgot to mention it in the last comment, but i really love that headboard! good luck!

The headboard has shelves at each end that, I do believe, are intended to serve as night stands. If your bedside clutter can be minimized, you could just us it as intended. (And put anything extra on or in a dresser drawer instead.)

I second SherryBin - use the built in shelves as night stands. Since it is tough to find a matching tall dresser, I wouldn't even try and buy two new dressers (or other pieces) for your bedroom then use one or both of the dresser from the set somewhere else in your place. That wide dresser would look great in a dining room.
That way you get to enjoy the pieces more, too.

Sure, do something other than wood - sleek and metal, white or teal - it that's what you like.

If you like wood, as I do, then don't - instead, get other pieces in wood (either old or reproduction new) that are of similar era and mid-century modern style - that YOU think look nice with your pieces. (Sure, look for the exact matching tall dresser if you like, but don't hold your breath waiting to find it.) Other pieces in the same era will mix nicely with your stuff - not all styles of them, but some of them will, for sure. Go to a store that sells lots of old mid-century stuff - you'll see what I mean - you'll see stuff that you think looks good together from different styles, you'll see.

As to color, despite what one poster posted of a piece in a similar color, I wouldn't look for similarly colored pieces. (If you find something close in color that you like and that looks good with your stuff, then go for it - but don't look for specifically just that color.) Go with something lighter or darker that you think looks good with your wood tone. Then it won't be just close, but not quite the same - which often looks much worse than 2 distinctly different but complementary stain colors. A different color altogether will mix nicely - really. Go look at a store that sells these old pieces and you will see what I mean.

And, lastly, your tall dresser and other items don't even really need to be mid-century stuff. As long as it is in a color and style that you think blends well with your stuff, it'll be fine. You think you don't know enough - but you do, really - just look at it with your stuff and see if YOU think it looks good together. You will know what looks good and what doesn't.

(When I see an antique dresser I think might blend with my dresser colors, I go home and get a drawer or two from my stuff and bring it to the store to see how the colors look together. For comparing different styles,I bring up two windows on my computer with pictures of items I want to see how they look together - it doesn't need to be the exact piece, but something in the same style and color - so I can look at them together and make my decision about how they go together.) Your eye will tell you, really, and your opinion (and that of anyone you live with) is all that matters.

I'd feel pretty cautious about putting a glass of water on a shelf on my bed headboard. I'm not a particularly active sleeper but I still move about in the night, pillows get moved, etc, and I could all too easily imagine getting a shocking wake-up when the water tips over!

Is this a fake question...because your stuff is for sale on ebay?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/DREXEL-COUNTERPOINT-JOHN-VAN-KOERT-MID-CENTURY-MODERN-FULL-SIZE-BED-HEADBOARD-/251211154104?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a7d5a02b8

A quick search on CL yielded dozens of results for this furniture. Dining tables are only $100 bucks in New York. I don't think it's too expensive or rare. Plenty of end tables around for near the $100 mark. Even Ikea isn't that cheap. Assuming you researched this before you asked the question and still found those prices too expensive, how low do you want to go?

Why not contact the guy with the ebay listing (if it isn't you)? He claims to have the nightstands. As the ebay posting shows though...their is storage in the headboard and the night stands are attached. How much more storage would you need?

This is fun........ Look there was a store in NYC that has the exact same photo of your grandmother's dresser. Seems they had it for sale last year along with the mirror, a tall dresser and a side table.

If the post isn't fake, cell phone pics of the real pieces would be infintely preferable to stuff pulled off the internet. Or at least something like " my camera is broken so I got these pics of the interweb" would be nice.

Oops, forgot the link

http://www.furnishgreen.org/2012/06/drexel-by-john-van-koert.html

These pieces are beautiful! Lucky you. I also would say don't try to match- throw in some metal or color. And I cannot imagine a bedskirt with this beautiful MCM furniture- I think it would totally spoil the look.

Don't match these great pieces with nightstands. Too much matching.

Mix it up. Room & Board has very reasonably priced sleek natural steel pieces called the Slim collection. I have two of the narrow consoles behind my chesterfield sofa, they look killer. They also come in fun colors, ship UPS, and are made in America.

http://www.roomandboard.com/rnb/product/detail.do?productGroup=3194

I grew up with a bed that had built in shelves in the headboard,and I honestly cant recall it ever being a problem.Fantastic set,and I would use it exactly as intended.

Why would someone submit a fake question like this....?

Anyway, you don't give the size or dimensions of the room, but it sounds to me like your loading it up with too much furniture. If so, get rid of some of your clothes.

Agree that the pieces you add should not be matchy, but they do need to coexist with what you've got. For night stands, I think they should be about as tall as the top of your mattress, so you can see your alarm clock when reclining.

Wow, I didn't imagine I'd get so many skeptics. I'm not sure why that is.

a. This is a serious question. I don't have pictures of the furniture because I didn't have a camera or my phone on me when I saw them in person. I still don't physically have the set yet. I used those pictures from Google searches as examples simply to ask for help.

b. I did do research and my results showed that pieces from this specific furniture collection are somewhat expensive and rare. The dining table may have been listed at $100, but I don't want the dining table. The other pieces were $500+. I'd also rather not have to put that time and effort into getting the whole Counterpoint set, which is why I was asking what would go well with the pieces I have already.

To those of you who took my question seriously, thank you for your advice. I will refer to it when I actually get the set in my new place.

I agree to reduce the number of pieces. Forget about side tables and use the headboard. If you really feel you need a second dresser, look for a used mid-century modern or danish piece and have it refinished to match the wood of the Drexel set. But I would think six drawers would be enough for two people. a lot can be stored under the bed. Use the extra space in the room for an upholstered chair or two and a reading lamp - that would mix it up and be so pleasant as a counterpoint to the streamlined wood pieces.