What the tape measure says
Forty-six centimetres wide is the whole point.
35 cm deep and 70 cm tall, with 25 cm of clear floor under the shelf. It fits the gap between a bed and a wall that a wider table will not.
A couple more room tipsListed size 46 cm wide, 35 cm deep, 70 cm tall, with a drawer 23 cm deep inside and 25 cm of clear height underneath.
What the listing does not say
The stained ones are pine. The old white one was not.
Forty-six centimetres wide, 35 deep and 70 tall. One drawer sits directly under the top with a single round knob, and below it is an open shelf, open at the front and the sides, between four square legs. The drawer is 23 cm deep inside, which is the number that decides what this piece is for.
The panels are solid pine: top, sides, legs, front rail, back panel, shelf and drawer front, stained and then sealed with clear acrylic lacquer. The drawer sides and back are pine too. Only the drawer bottom is fibreboard. That matters because HEMNES has a reputation for particleboard, and the reputation comes from the plain white melamine version, which really was board under foil and has been discontinued. The white stain, black-brown and grey-green finishes are stained wood, and you can see the grain.
The drawer is small, and owners say so before they buy it. What they say afterwards is more useful: one lists two decks of cards, a medium book, a watch, glasses, a small dish for coins, lip balm, a tube of lotion and a Kindle, all in one drawer that still opens easily. Twenty-three centimetres is enough for the things that collect beside a bed, and the open shelf is what takes the book, the tablet or the glass of water.
Assembly is short but not foolproof. The listing reviews split between people who found it easy and people who fought it, and the complaints are about identification rather than joinery: parts are not labelled and the drawings take interpretation. One reviewer warns there are steps that cannot be undone once taken, which is the reason to read the whole sheet before tightening anything. Lay the panels out and match them to the drawing first.
The finish is stain under lacquer, so it dents rather than chips, and a hard knock leaves a pale mark in the wood. The two failures owners report are a top panel arriving cracked in transit and, in one case, the surface cracking after about a year. Both are worth checking on the day the box arrives rather than after assembly. Owners of older units describe the same finish lasting fifteen years and several moves, and two had a glass top cut for it.
The drawer runs on side runners with a pull-out stop, and most owners call it smooth. A minority do not: one calls the mechanism not smooth, another says it closes hard. The stop is the part that matters, and one reviewer widened the opening slightly rather than accept the travel as supplied. No wall strap comes with this size, unlike the taller HEMNES chests, and at 70 cm on four legs it does not need one.
Wipe with a cloth dampened in a mild cleaner and dry with a clean cloth. Check the top panel for cracks when the box arrives, before assembly. Lift the table rather than dragging it, because the legs are solid pine and take a mark.