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to want these beside tables

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tak1ngchances · 10/12/2011 12:30

DH and I are embarking on a loft conversion next year. We have slept in quite a horrible dark bedroom for 5 years now so we are v excited about moving up to a bigger brighter space.
I have started shopping around for bits and pieces and saw 2 lovely bedside tables in our local antique/vintage furniture store last Saturday. I have put them on hold.
DH does not want them because they don't have drawers. They are just small square tables on 4 legs. They are vvvvv beautiful (dark wooden legs with cream leather tops covered by glass to protect the leather). I think drawers = clutter. He thinks drawers = convenience.

What do you reckon ladies, should I get them or not?

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valiumredhead · 10/12/2011 12:32

I'm with your dh on this one. Drawers mean tidy!

fatfingers · 10/12/2011 12:33

I'm with your dh.

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tak1ngchances · 10/12/2011 12:33

Oh god you are killing me. Have you experience of tables with no drawers that drove you mad? Or just guessing

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whenPaschagotstuckupthechimney · 10/12/2011 12:34

I think if you don't agree you shouldn't get them because its his bedroom too. Could they go elsewhere in the house instead.

whenPaschagotstuckupthechimney · 10/12/2011 12:34

? i meant

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tak1ngchances · 10/12/2011 12:36

Here is the list of what is currently in his bedside table: socks in the drawer (we can get a chest of drawers for socks). Big stack of dusty magazines (we can get a magazine rack to put under the table). Sex stuff (not quite sure where we would put that. In the chest of drawers? Might kill the moment to have to trot across the room in passionate moments. Or maybe in a box under my side of the table). Tissues, lip balm, collection of strange sports-related objects, coins, a ball of string, a notebook (clutter. All can be relocated). So really we only would need a drawer for the sex stuff...

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valiumredhead · 10/12/2011 12:36

I just need drawers as I need essential items near my bed such as - hand cream, tooth picks, kindles, reading glasses, night cream,tissues, mobile phone. Where will you put all your bits if you don't have drawers?

Rhubarbgarden · 10/12/2011 12:44

I couldn't function without my bedside drawer.

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tak1ngchances · 10/12/2011 12:45

I would have a thing on top of the table for bits and bobs. You see them in hotels, they are square with low sides (god only knows what they are called). The lamps will be wall-mounted so plenty of space on the tables for handcreams and what have you

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Tinselperion · 10/12/2011 12:45

We recently upgraded to bedside tables with drawers. Don't know how we ever lived without them.

PsecretPsanta · 10/12/2011 12:49

Drawers are a must.

Could you get the tables as occasional tables next to a nice armchair in the room?

AWimbaAllTheWay · 10/12/2011 12:49

My bedside tables have drawers, they are full of pointless crap, in fact I haven't even looked in mine for about 3 years.

BendyBob · 10/12/2011 12:52

We have bedside tables no drawers. Dh wanted them. I wanted drawers. They look a bit (a lot) of a mess really. So it'll be ones with drawers next time. And I was right...again. (Dh are you listening??)

You tables sound nice though. Couldn't you get them anyway for the living room?

WhatsWrongWithYou · 10/12/2011 13:00

How can you say drawers equal clutter then go on to say you'll put all your clutter handcreams etc on top of the lovely tables? Even if you have the hotel-style box thingies you'll still be displaying them as if they're ornaments, which they're not.

Only a lamp and a clock should be seen on a bedside table < blots out image of DH's Strepsil/book/Paracetemol/Bonjela-strewn side of the marital bed >

Could you use them elsewhere in the house, or put them together at the foot of the bed, maybe with a couple of vases/candlesticks/flowers on top?

Pandemoniaa · 10/12/2011 13:02

Bedside tables have drawers, occasional tables don't. But then I've never really seen the point of superflous little tables in a bedroom. Especially ones that have glass tops. Our bedroom is very tidy (it helps that all the dcs are grown-up and have their own homes!) but without drawers in the bedside table there would be all sorts of miscellaneous little shyte scattered around. I can cope with dp's need for this sort of stuff but not if I see it piled on the top of a little table.

So I don't think the OP's DH is being unreasonable. Save the tables for a room they might suit better.

GiserableMitt · 10/12/2011 13:25

If they don't have drawers where are you supposed to put your sex toys tissues?

dozyrosierednosyreindeer · 10/12/2011 13:45

Your DH does have a point, sorry OP. However the tables sound nice. I don't have room for my our sex stuff in the bed side draws (not that I have enough to start my own shop Blush), so they are in a nice drawstring satin bag. You could hang it from the bed head or maybe that would be a bit obvious.

pranma · 10/12/2011 13:52

Sorry, you will regret the drawers if you dont have them lovely though the tables sound.

StrandedUnderTheMisltoe · 10/12/2011 15:56

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BsshBossh · 10/12/2011 16:21

We have bedside tables with no drawers and it's fine. But then we're a clutter free house and recycle/throw away routinely. Can you compromise and get DH a table with drawers, you keep one of the antique tables and then house the second antique table elsewhere in the house?

LaurieFairyCake · 10/12/2011 16:27

No, get the vintage ones - they sound lovely, and have an antique writing box under or on it for sex stuff/essentials.

DamnDeDoubtance · 10/12/2011 16:31

Bedside drawers end up full of clutter, get the tables.

tethersjinglebellend · 10/12/2011 16:36

Going to bed without drawers is a sign of depravity.

I'm with your DH.

DamnDeDoubtance · 10/12/2011 16:43

Your right Tethers, just looked it up in the dictionary.

Depravity...1. A wicked or morally corrupt act. 2. Not having drawers by the bed.

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Toughasoldboots · 10/12/2011 16:58

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