Fun Nightstand Ideas

You can jazz up your nightstands with decorative lamps and accessories.

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Use paint, decor, embellishments and other tools to create distinctive nightstands for your bedroom or your child's room. A variety of elements fall into the realm of "fun" depending on the decor and theme of the room. An adult might like a few simple touches, while a child may want a nightstand that blends in with his circus-theme bedroom.

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Distressed nightstands blend well in an old-fashioned, country or antique-theme room. You can sand down a painted nightstand to create a distressed look or buy nightstands that have already been altered. Look for a plain oak or white distressed nightstand, or find these in various colors such as teal, red or yellow. The distressed nightstands showcase plenty of color along with grooves and blemishes that make them look worn.

Decor Ideas

Dress up your nightstand with funny embellishments or decorative accents. Choose odd-shaped lamps that look like flowers or mushrooms. Place dinosaur stickers on your son's lamp shade and surround the shade with small dinosaur figurines. You can also tape silk ivy vines and silk flowers along the border and sides of your nightstands. Wrap the stems of silk flowers around the knobs. Use other nightstand decorations such as glass bowls filled with rose petals, tiny treasure chests, glass bottles, seashells and crystal figurines.

Shaped Nightstands

Shaped nightstands work especially well in theme bedrooms that feature forest, gardens or cartoon-theme rooms. Find nightstands that look similar to tree stumps or mushrooms, if you plan on designing a mystical forest room. Flower shapes go well in a girl's garden or ladybug-theme room. Colorful circular shaped nightstands can also work well in a kid's room or guest bedroom.

More Ideas

Decorate your child's nightstand with color, embellishments or other decor to blend well with the rest of the room. Paint the nightstands bright colors, if your child's room features colorful circus, rainbow or cartoon themes. You can paint the nightstand one solid color such as yellow and then paint the interior and exterior of the drawers lime green. A little girl might like a light purple nightstand with dark purple drawers and white knobs. If you don't want to paint, decorate the nightstand with cartoon decal stickers or use glue to add embellishments such as plastic butterflies or ladybugs on the drawers, border and sides of the nightstand. Glue a pink tutu around a rounded nightstand that has no drawers and only holds a lamp on top. You can also dress up a nightstand by installing fake crystal knobs and tying colorful ribbons around each knob.

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