Tall Chests and Long Dressers for the Bedroom

Twice a day, usually half asleep, you open a dresser drawer. No other piece of bedroom furniture gets handled as much, and none apart from the bed has a bigger flat surface, which is why a dresser so often ends up holding the lamp, the mirror, the jewelry dish, and the laundry that has not been put away.

Shape decides where it can go. A long, low double dresser wants a wide wall and repays it with a generous top. A tall chest stacks the same storage into a narrow column and fits between a window and a door.

The fronts set the character. Fluting adds texture, a handle-free front keeps a room quiet, and stained pine or a farmhouse molding brings some age. Fabric drawers on a metal frame are the practical choice for closets and children’s rooms.

Walker Edison Blythe 5-Drawer Dresser

Caramel-stained pine gives the Blythe a warmth of its own, with the grain showing through on every drawer front. It is a tall, narrow chest in the Scandinavian manner, raised on tapered legs with slim metal pulls, and the amber color would be lovely against white walls or a deep green.

The detail to notice is the gallery top, a raised rim around three sides. It turns the top into a tray of sorts, so a lamp, a watch, and a framed photograph stay corralled and look arranged.

Homrest Fluted 6-Drawer Dresser

Pinstripes are the nearest comparison for the drawer fronts on the Homrest. Fine vertical grooves run across all six, so the black surface is never flat, and daylight picks out the ridges differently as it moves round the room. Short gold handles, set in two neat columns, are the only ornament. Long and low on angled legs, it leaves the wall above free for a mirror or one large picture.

HOMCOM Tall Dresser With Bamboo Frame

The frame of this chest is bamboo, stained a deep reddish brown, and it gives the piece a different character from the usual flat-pack dresser. There is visible grain, a top with a small overhang, and curved wooden handles in place of metal ones, all of which suggest something found in an old guesthouse instead of something assembled last weekend.

The top two drawers are half width, the natural home for socks and the small things that go missing in a deep drawer.

Reibii Dresser With 12 Fabric Drawers

Twelve drawers sounds like a lot until you start assigning them. One for gym kit, one for swimwear, one for each child’s pajamas, and they are soon spoken for. That is the appeal of a fabric-drawer dresser in a shared bedroom or a walk-in closet, where sorting matters as much as polish.

Fabric fronts soften a tall piece of storage, so it looks at home beside a bed in a way a bank of metal drawers would not. In charcoal on a black frame it is tidy and unobtrusive, with a wooden top for a lamp.

Hitow 9-Drawer Handle-Free Dresser

With no handles anywhere, the front of the Hitow is a clean white grid, nine drawers in three rows of three, separated only by thin shadow lines. It is the dresser for a bedroom that is trying to stay calm, where a row of knobs would be one more thing to look at.

Its length is an advantage on a wide wall. Treat the top as you would a sideboard’s, with a lamp at one end, a mirror leaned in the middle, and a tray for whatever comes out of your pockets.

HOMCOM Fluted 6-Drawer Double Dresser

Pale wood, rippled drawer fronts, and a thin gold edge where you would expect a handle make the HOMCOM a gentle take on the fluted look. The grooves are wide and wavy, a soft ripple across each front, and the finger pulls sit along the top edge of each drawer so nothing interrupts the pattern.

The honey blond color and splayed legs belong to a light, Scandinavian sort of bedroom. Against a white wall the dresser nearly disappears, leaving only the ripple and the line of gold.

Tribesigns Rolling Drawer Chest

Wheels change what a chest of drawers is for. The Tribesigns can live inside a closet and roll out when you are packing, or stand beside a desk or a sewing table as a set of drawers for everything that isn’t clothing.

It looks like workshop furniture in a good way, with rustic wood grain fronts and scooped cutouts in place of handles, all in a black metal frame. The drawers are shallow, which suits folded T-shirts, scarves, and paperwork.

REIBII Tall 6-Drawer Dresser

A tall chest stacks its storage, so it asks for a modest patch of floor, and that makes it a natural choice for the wall beside a wardrobe or between two windows. This one is matte black and entirely flush, with a small scooped notch at the top of each drawer where a handle would be. The effect is of a block of sculpture as much as a piece of bedroom furniture, and it gives a pale room one strong dark shape.

HOMCOM Farmhouse Chest of Drawers

Crown molding at the top and a deep plinth at the base give this chest the outline of an old country piece, the kind that gets handed down. The wood grain is a strong, knotty brown, and each drawer has a pair of small round knobs.

It is tall and upright, with five wide drawers stacked one over another. In a bedroom with an iron bed or a patchwork quilt, it looks as though it came with the house.

Reibii White 7-Drawer Dresser

All white, down to the knobs, the Reibii is easy to place in a nursery, a guest room, or a rented bedroom where the walls have to stay as they are. Its best idea is the open shelf raised above the main top, which gives two levels to work with. Folded blankets or a row of books can sit on the lower surface while a lamp and a clock go on the shelf above them. The drawers are fabric, in two widths, on a slim white frame.

Before You Fill the Drawers

Anchor a dresser to the wall before loading it, using the anti-tip hardware supplied or a furniture strap, and open one drawer at a time until it is fixed. Leave enough floor in front to pull a drawer fully out and still stand at it.