Discover the Open and Closed Oak Bedside Table

Most bedside tables choose one approach; this bedside table made of oak veneer uses both. A diaphanous open storage space sits alongside a single drawer, so the book you are halfway through stays visible and reachable whilst chargers, medication and everything else goes out of sight. At 60 cm wide and 52 cm high it takes a lamp, a glass and a phone on the top without crowding, and the open bay below is deep enough for a small stack rather than a token gap.

The drawer uses a pressure opening system, so there is no handle on the front and a light push releases it, and it runs on adjustable hidden guides that can be fine-tuned if the front ever drops out of line. An adjustable base lets the table overcome uneven floors, which matters for a push-latch drawer in particular: a carcass sitting out of square is the usual reason a pressure catch stops holding cleanly.

Certified Timber and Simple Upkeep

The wood carries FSC 100% chain-of-custody certification, the strictest of the FSC categories, meaning the fibre in the panel is traced to a responsible forest management model and the chain of handling is documented from felling through to the finished table. That certification is issued to the processing chain rather than to the tree, which is why it tells you something useful about the manufacturing as well as the material. The same standard runs across several pieces here, so the oak veneer collection can be combined without mixing sourcing standards.

Day to day, the open bay collects dust faster than a closed drawer, so run a dry cloth through it when you change the bed. Treat the top as you would any veneer: coasters under glasses, spills wiped and dried at once, and no abrasive cream, which cuts through a thin veneer layer quickly. The piece is intended to be combined with the rest of the collection, so a matching chest or wardrobe keeps one oak tone across the bedroom.