Bedside Tables Assembled Neatly and Placed Exactly Where You Want Them in Kenilworth

Small piece, same standards

A bedside table is the quickest job in the flat pack family — often well under an hour — but it is still furniture you will use every night, and a badly built one shows: a drawer that will not shut, a top that rocks, a lamp that sits at an angle because the unit does. We build small furniture to the same standard as wardrobes, just faster, because the same rules apply at any size: square carcass, correct fixings, level feet.

What the job involves

Most bedside cabinets follow the same pattern: two side panels, a back that squares the carcass, a shelf or drawer, and four short legs or a plinth. The fiddly parts are the small hardware — tiny cams, short dowels and small screws that are easy to overtighten in thin panels — and drawer alignment in a carcass only thirty centimetres wide, where a single millimetre shows. Cable cut-outs for lamps and phone chargers need their grommets seated cleanly, and where the design includes a socket or USB module, the hardware is fitted exactly as the maker describes.

Getting the details right

We unpack, check against the parts list, and build the carcass square before anything else. Feet are levelled, the top is checked with a spirit level, and the drawer or door is adjusted until gaps are even and it closes with a light push. Then the details that make it feel finished: it stands where you want it, at the height that suits your bed, stable on your floor — carpet, boards or tiles — with nothing rocking when you lean on it first thing in the morning. Small furniture gets knocked about more than anything else in the house, so we check the joints are tight rather than merely seated.

More than one? Fold it into a visit

A single bedside table is a short visit, and many customers use it as the first item on a list — two matching tables, a chest of drawers, a bookshelf — so one call covers the room. Tell us everything when you book and we will agree the scope and the time honestly rather than squeezing things in. If parts are missing from the kit, flag it before the visit: we will assess what can reasonably be done and whether the manufacturer needs to send replacements, which you would order separately. It is also worth mentioning anything unusual about the kit — a second-hand piece with parts from another flat, say — because that changes how we plan.

Small choices, easier made early

Which side of the bed the table stands on, whether you want the drawer facing you or the open shelf, where your lamp and charger will sit relative to the cable cut-out, and how close it tucks to the headboard — these are all worth ten seconds of thought before the build starts, because some are awkward to change afterwards. We will ask when we arrive and build to your answer. If you are pairing two tables either side of the bed, tell us, so we set them level and matching rather than approximating each one separately.

Small choices, easier made early

Which side of the bed the table stands on, whether you want the drawer facing you or the open shelf, where your lamp and charger will sit relative to the cable cut-out, and how close it tucks to the headboard — these are all worth ten seconds of thought before the build starts, because some are awkward to change afterwards. We will ask when we arrive and build to your answer. If you are pairing two tables either side of the bed, tell us, so we set them level and matching rather than approximating each one separately.

Booking a small job

Small jobs are worth doing properly, and we price them fairly: a booking fee is paid when you book, labour is hourly, and the rate depends on how soon you need us — same-day may be available. Before any work starts we quote the full cost and you approve it. Call Maintenance Men, tell us what needs building and where, and we will take it from there — fully insured, covering the West Midlands, and happy to take the fiddly jobs off your list.