Homestyles Arts and Crafts Cottage Oak Nightstand with Drawer

I'm very pleased with this product. It was packaged extremely well, to start off with. I ordered two, and they were shipped separately. I got the first one yesterday, and the second one comes today. I'm very familiar with this type of furniture assembly, so it was pretty easy for me. All the hardware comes with an extra in case you break or lose one. I like that. Someone reviewed that it took them 70 minutes to put one together. From taking it out of the packaging to finished product took me 45 minutes. The directions are VERY well done. Follow them to a T, and you will have NO problems. In step 1, make sure that you put the good side of the back facing to the front, or inside. You will have an unfinished back, and visible cams and screws when it is assembled. Before I started putting it together, I installed all the cams, cam pins and dowels in their respective parts. Doing this will speed up assembly, and it doesn't hurt a thing. It won't interfere with assembly. Keep the screws and bolts in their packages until needed. The directions don't include the part numbers which are on the packages, but it is not a problem. Just pay attention to their length and type. Another tip is to not overtighten them (screw them too far into the wood). Anyway, all holes lined up perfectly. If you follow the directions, you will not have a problem. Both my wife and I love our new nightstands. They are sturdy, mostly solid wood, and the color is great!!

I bought this nightstand a few weeks ago, and I absolutely love it.I was easily able to put it together by myself. The construction is solid and most joints have two types of things keeping them together (a wooden rod thing and a screw or nail). It also came with one extra of every type of hardware used, which was very handy.The sliding extra shelf is very useful for coffee or water, and the drawer has enough depth to keep a small (10") laptop. The drawer height is also such that the charger for the laptop can come out of the side pretty easily and charge overnight.The bottom shelf fits my medium size water bottle and my 14lb dog, (who wasn't a huge fan). If you had a smaller dog, it could work as a nice cubbyhole as long as you put padding down. But either way, it's a decently sized shelf, good for keeping books or a water bottle or something similarly sized.Overall, it's a very classy little nightstand, and it's the perfect height for my bed.

I needed a basic inexpensive nightstand for the guest bedroom, and the slide out shelf plus the very reasonable price for this one convinced me. I was expecting the 'usual' fiberboard furniture for this price, so I was stunned at the weight of the box when it arrived. What?! Why does a small nightstand weigh this much? This is mostly WOOD. Cool!First, the 'white' version is not white. This color is what most people consider Almond, with a brown/grey tint. It's not Ivory with a yellow tint, and it's not Off-White with a grey tint. It's Almond. Given all the comments about the color, I expected that and was fine with it.It's not hard to put together, but given that there's well over a dozen pieces, and 14 types of fasteners, I took my time assembling (an hour and a half). And STILL managed to make mistakes. I put the back panel screw side facing the front, instead outwards facing the wall. It's intuitive to put the screws on the INSIDE of furniture and not facing OUT, and judging by the comments about screw covers, others did the same thing.Maybe this caused the wobble I ended up with, but I'm not taking it all apart and rebuilding it again immediately. I had to shim the front left leg with a 1/2" piece of cardboard for the nightstand to sit level. Not as attractive as it could have been, and that's why the missing star. Everything was tightened, I missed no holes, and it's very solid, so the wobble is either poor hole drilling or my putting the back panel on backwards, right now, I don't know. But the fact that from other reviews, I'm not the only one who made the mistake, the directions are simply not clear enough about this. One simple sentence that says 'back screw holes should face outward' would have solved this for everyone.This is definitely a quality piece of furniture when done. I would buy it again in a heartbeat, despite the wobble, especially at the discounted price (probably because of the color). Also, it's very fun to put together, like a puzzle. There are a few areas that require some strength (screwing in the first set of screws using a screwdriver), another that requires some flexibility (reaching the screws in the far back when screwing the top piece in), and the bottom portions uses bolts that require an included small allen wrench... why not just use a screw that takes a phillips head? It took much longer to use the bolts because they are butted to the bottom and you had to keep resetting the allen wrench. Minor annoyance, but still worth mentioning.So Tips:1. Lay out all 14 packages of hardware before you start, and make sure you know which is which and none are missing. I'm so glad I did this, as some look really similar and it's easy to use the wrong screws thinking they are all you have.2. Figure out how the locking nuts work, and do not exert a lot of pressure getting them in. I did not have one fully seated correctly on the very first piece, and forcing it split the right rear top panel a hair. It is not visible, but could have been avoided if I had understood how they properly worked before doing it. If I had to do it again, I'd practice using the locking nuts on one piece before moving forward with assembly. I HAVE worked with locking nuts before, but forgot because it's been a while.3. When putting on the back pieces, make sure the screw holes face OUTWARD. It IS clear in the diagram, but most people want a smooth outside finish, so either figure it doesn't matter, or think the diagram is drawn to be 'see through', so it's hard to tell. Again, this may account for my slight wobble.4. On the bottom piece, I put the dowels in on the wrong side, they go on the smooth side. My husband had to pull the dowels out again with pliers, because I couldn't get them back out. So on the very bottom, put the dowels in on the smooth side to begin with.That's basically it. It wasn't hard, just a bit tricky, and despite how slowly and carefully I assembled, I still made mistakes. Other than the wobbling leg, it's a really solid and lovely table, exactly the size I needed. Hope this helps!

Love my new nightstand! So...here's my review! First of all the unit is not a bright white, it's more of an Antique White. It arrived all in pieces and I dreaded having to put it together HOWEVER it was very well packed and each piece was marked A B C and so on. Even the hardware was individual packed in little baggies and clearly identified as per the instructions. Huge kudos to the manufacturer for doing this. Made it much easier to assemble. Over all it took me two hours to put together, and that's only because my husband kept interrupting me lol. The unit is fairly heavy indicating that it's wood and not particle board. There are however a few pieces that aren't real wood but those are not seen. For me it's the perfect height. I decided it was worth it to buy the matching unit for my husbands side of the bed. Also the slide out tray happens to be extremely useful. I didn't think it would be but it is. Ideal for your water, phone, coffee cup etc. I'm actually thinking about maybe adding a like a verse or some sort of border on the black part of the pull out tray. The drawer itself is not real deep but my iPad, my medications be a few other items fit nicely. Anyway, I hope this review helps you make a decision, it took me a week to figure out which nightstand I wanted and I'm thrilled that I picked this one over all the other ones!