The Best Inexpensive Headboards, Nightstands, & Dressers

Hi everyone – how was your weekend? Ours went by way too quickly with kids sports and a date night on Saturday (guess who we saw out at dinner – Martha Stewart!) followed by a homebody day on Sunday after getting snowed in. The good news is that the snow day gave me the time to put together the bedroom resources I had scouted out last month for my friend – remember the one who just moved into a new apartment that she wanted to furnish inexpensively?! Last month I shared my favorite inexpensive living room furniture including inexpensive sofas, media consoles, and coffee tables in {this post} and you guys had lots of love for it so today I’m sharing my favorite inexpensive bedroom furniture including headboards, nightstands, and dressers. Here’s what I came up with (post includes some affiliate links – see my full disclosure statement {here}):

and here’s the more detailed scoop:

Best Inexpensive Headboards

Headboard #1 (available {here}) comes in five color options and is such a beautiful shape. It’s made by Safavieh whose products I’ve had good luck with in the past.

Headboard #2 is a classic cast iron headboard while headboard #3 is a classic slat headboard (it comes in white along with three other finishes). Both are great choices for bedrooms where you want to your headboard to be a more subdued backdrop so that other aspects of your bedroom design (wallpapered walls, bedding, etc.) can shine! Headboard #3 reminds me of the white headboard in my daughter’s blue & white bedroom (which is a 15+ years old one from Pottery Barn):

Headboard #4 (available {here} and {here}) is the best buy of the bunch at under $100 for a queen with 4 1/2 stars and over 1300 reviews! It comes in several different color options, including this taupey gray:

Headboard #5 is a beautiful tufted wingback at a price you can’t beat and with overwhelmingly positive reviews. In addition to being offered in classic colors like beige and charcoal:

it comes in several colorful options such as navy, violet red, and olive green. If you want to spend a little more money, {this tufted wingback headboard} is another nice option.

Two other options to throw into the inexpensive headboard category are to (#1) make your own! I couldn’t find exactly what I wanted for my daughter’s bedroom so I made this tall upholstered white headboard and shared the DIY headboard tutorial {here}.

And option #2 is to take an older wood headboard with an interesting shape such as this one:

and give it new life with paint like I did for the headboard in our master bedroom makeover:

And one last piece of advice before moving on to nightstands – whether you’re buying a new headboard or an old one that you’re going to makeover, measure the height of the headboard to make sure that it’s tall enough so that a good amount of headboard is still showing once you have your bed pillows in front of it. 

Best Inexpensive Nightstands

When you’re on the hunt for a nightstand, height is super important! I prefer nightstands to be the same height as the top of the mattress or just an inch or two higher. Once you start nightstand shopping you’ll find that many of them are 20″ which is really short considering that the height of most mattresses is about 25-26″ – I’d recommend that you skip those 20-inchers (unless you have an unusually low bed) and keep shopping! I also prefer for nightstands to have a drawer so there’s an easy spot to stash things like hand lotion, tissues, and a book. Here are three I found (all under $175) that fit the bill:

Nightstand #6 is a classic wood nightstand in a hue that will work well with other woods as well as with painted furniture pieces:

Nightstand #7 is a painted campaign-style x-based nightstand that comes in ten different colors (including some really beautiful shades!). Nightstand #8 is the bargain buy of the bunch at only $69.99:

Best Inexpensive Dressers

You guys, finding inexpensive dressers was hard! They are just inherently pricey pieces of furniture due to the labor involved in their construction. The two best priced dressers I found that I like the looks of are both ones with very simple designs – they’d be easy to dress up with new knobs to look more expensive. Dresser #9 is available in four different paint colors and includes a decorative rail that can be added to the top of it in case you’d like to use it in a nursery with a changing pad on top. Dresser #10 is a great inexpensive choice if you need lots of drawer space as is {this more contemporary dresser} that my youngest daughter has in her bedroom:

And just like with headboards, painting a wood nightstand or dresser is a good option to for keeping costs low if you can’t find exactly what you’re looking for within your budget. When I made-over our master bedroom, I searched and searched for the perfect sized dresser to replace this one that we already had in the room:

And after striking out on finding one I liked at the right width, I decided to stick with what I have but paint it and add new knobs – I’m SO glad I did because I like it so much better than any other options I had found:

So those are my picks and tips for bedroom furniture! Are there any inexpensive bedroom furniture pieces that you guys own and would recommend? Be sure to tell us all about them!  

Hope you all have a great week!