Bedside Table 500mm Wide with a Drawer and a Shelf in Painted MDF

A 500mm bedside table at 360mm deep. Sized to sit level with a standard mattress at 600mm high.

Everything we sell is under 800mm wide. That is not a style, it is the constraint the whole range is designed around, because it is the measurement that decides whether a piece of furniture works in a small flat. Eight hundred millimetres is roughly the width of a standard internal door, the width of the gap most people have between a sofa and a wall, and the point past which a piece stops reading as part of the room and starts reading as an obstacle. Designing to it is harder than designing without it and it is the only interesting thing about furniture for small spaces.

Specification

• Dimensions: 500mm wide by 360mm deep by 600mm high
• Floor footprint: 0.18 square metres
• Material: moisture resistant MDF sprayed in a two pack polyurethane, which is harder than a brushed finish and will not chip on a door edge
• Finish: hardwax oiled or sprayed, handles in your chosen finish
• Capacity: 15kg on the top, 8kg in the drawer
• Assembly: flat packed, about 25 minutes
• Getting it in: Flat packed in 1 carton, largest 560mm by 640mm by 120mm. Through a standard 762mm door: yes. Into a small lift: yes
• Weight: approximately 17.0 kilograms
• Height: 600mm, which is level with a standard divan and mattress
• Drawer: soft close runners, full extension
• Cable notch in the back panel
• Sold singly, and as a matched pair at the checkout
• Felt pads on every foot

What you get

• The table, flat packed
• Soft close drawer runners, pre fitted
• Handles in your chosen finish
• A cable notch cover
• Felt pads and a hex key

Assembly

Flat packed, with a hex key, a spanner and printed instructions in the box. Fittings are cam locks and threaded steel inserts rather than chipboard screws, which is what lets a piece be taken apart and reassembled without the joints going loose. We reckon on three moves and have tested to ten.

If you are renting

Nothing here touches the wall. No drilling, no anchors, no filler and no repainting on the way out. Felt pads on every contact point, and a set of spare pads in the box for when the first set wears through.