Nursery Nightstands & Side Tables
A nursery nightstand earns its place by doing real work at 3 a.m. Ours hold a bottle warmer, a folded muslin, a nightlight, and the half-read board book you swore you'd put away. Built by Westwood Design and other high-end nursery makers, these side tables read as actual furniture, the kind that follows your child from the crib years into a first big-kid bedroom.
What's in the collection
The Nursery Nightstands & Side Tables edit covers the pieces parents reach for most often:
- Two- and three-drawer nightstands with soft-close runners for diapers, swaddles, and pacifiers within arm's reach of the glider
- Open-shelf side tables sized to sit beside a motorized nursery glider without crowding the feeding zone
- Cabinet-front nightstands that hide humidifiers, monitors, and cords behind a clean face
- Solid wood and wood-veneer finishes in white, natural oak, walnut, and painted neutrals that match most nursery sets
Who these are for
Parents building a full nursery who want the side table to match the crib and dresser, not fight them. The proportions are scaled for nursery use: low enough to reach from a glider, deep enough for a lamp and a water glass, narrow enough to fit between a crib and a wall in a city apartment. Most pieces here pair cleanly with cribs and dressers from Westwood Design and Oxford Baby, so the room reads as one finished space instead of three separate purchases.
How to style a nursery nightstand
- Beside the glider: a small lamp on a dimmer, a stack of board books, a lidded basket for burp cloths
- Beside the crib: a sound machine and monitor on top, sheets and sleep sacks in the drawers, nothing dangling within reach
- In a shared room: a two-drawer side table doubles as a divider between the baby zone and the older sibling's bed
Layer a mattress and bedding from the rest of the nursery edit, and the side table stops looking like an accessory and starts pulling the room together.
Built to outlast the nursery
Every nightstand here is sized and finished to move with your child. When the crib comes down and a twin bed goes up, the same nightstand works at headboard height. Pair it later with dadada toddler furniture and it reads as a grown-up bedside table, not a hand-me-down. That's the case for buying the nicer piece once: a nursery side table you keep for a decade is the actual value.
Shop the full nursery
Browse the Nursery Nightstands & Side Tables collection above, or keep building the room with the wider baby gear edit at Bambi Baby.