Three Drawer Bedside Table in Natural Teak with Carved Fronts

The three drawer fronts on this chest are cut from one board, in order, and put back in the same order.

On a painted or gilded chest it would not matter - colour covers everything. On a natural finish it matters a great deal. Timber varies along its length: the figure changes, the colour shifts slightly, one part is straighter-grained than another. Take three drawer fronts from three unrelated boards and you get three different faces stacked on top of each other, and the chest reads as assembled from parts.

So a single board is chosen long enough to give all three fronts, and it is cut across in sequence. The pieces are numbered as they come off the saw, and they go into the chest in that order, top to bottom. The grain then steps down the front of the chest continuously, as though the drawers were one panel that had been sliced.

The carving is set out afterwards, and it is set out on each front individually rather than traced from a template, so the scrollwork sits with the grain of its own piece rather than fighting it.

Material: solid teak in the carcass, drawer boxes, drawer fronts, base rail and feet.

Drawers: three full-width drawers of equal depth, on side runners with stops.

Drawer fronts: cut in sequence from one board so the grain runs continuously down the chest, each carved individually by hand.

Top: solid, moulded along its edge.

Base: shaped base rail on turned feet.

Hardware: ring pulls, one per drawer.

Finish: natural polished teak with the grain and figure left visible.

Made to order: height, width, depth, drawer count and depth, hardware and finish are all customisable. Custom sizes made to order - final measurements confirmed in writing before production.

A natural polished surface shows a scuff in its sheen even when there is no dent, so every face is protected before anything else happens.

Acid-free tissue is laid directly against the polish, then foam sheet, then bubble wrap, with rigid board across the top surface where anything set down would leave a mark.

All three drawers are removed and wrapped individually so the runners carry no load in transit, and they are labelled with their positions so they go back into the openings they were fitted to.

The turned feet are the parts most likely to catch, so each is foam-blocked, and the moulded top edge is given a protective strip along its whole run.

The chest ships in a hardwood crate with corner protection at every arris and orientation and lift markings. Multi-layer protective packaging is included on every order at no extra cost.

Delivery is free anywhere in India, with guaranteed dent-free arrival. No distance charge, no size charge and no handling fee.

Production begins once your dimensions are confirmed in writing - and for a bedside chest we ask the height of your bed, so the top can be set at a comfortable reach. We photograph your actual chest through the build, including the board the drawer fronts were cut from, so you can see the grain running down the front.

On site, our team places and levels the chest and refits each drawer in its marked position.

Send us lift dimensions, stair turns and doorway widths ahead of dispatch so the route can be planned. Every photograph on this page is of the actual product, not a render.

The solid teak frame and joinery carry a 20-year warranty - the carcass, the drawer boxes, the base rail and the feet, along with every joint between them.

A lifetime warranty against termite damage runs with the chest and never expires. Teak's own oils are its first protection and our warranty is the second.

Drawer runners and hardware are covered against manufacturing defect.

On a natural finish, matching later work means matching both the timber and the polish, so the board selection and the polish specification for your chest are recorded against your order number. If you want a second table to make a pair, we work from that record. Contact us with your order number and we will arrange it.