I had two pieces of furniture delivered yesterday:  a really nice lingerie chest and a basic nightstand.  They joined two pretty little tile stands that I bought for bedside use a few weeks ago.

I did not buy the basic nightstand to use at the bedside; I bought it to put under my internet router.  Don’t ask me why, but in my new house the internet router is hooked up from about a foot above the bedroom floor in the middle of one of the walls.  I had to do something to get that router off the floor; you know how nurses are about clutter on the floor.

The little nightstand is perfect for the job.  It has just enough top surface to hold the router.  It doesn’t stick out enough from the wall to get in the way of walking through the bedroom and to the bathroom, and I don’t have to tell you how nurses are about ANYTHING obstructing the path to the bathroom.  And as if all that weren’t enough, it has a drawer.

The decorative tile tables do not have drawers, so there was just something that made having a real live nightstand with drawers in the room seem…well, right. Read more…