What the tape measure says
Forty-five centimetres is lower than it looks.
37 cm wide and 28 deep, with 45 cm of height and open floor under the shelf. Measure the mattress before you buy, because at 45 cm this sits lower than most nightstands.
A couple more room tipsListed size 37 cm wide, 28 cm deep, 45 cm tall, with a top and one lower shelf and no drawer.
What the listing does not say
The four legs are the part that goes wrong
Thirty-seven centimetres wide, 28 deep and 45 tall, in steel with a black powder coat. The frame has no welded joints: four square legs bolt through flanges to the top and to one shelf at about half height, sixteen bolts in all, and every side stays open. There is no drawer, no door and no back panel.
That construction is why it flat packs in a box 47 by 30 by 4 cm at under 3 kg, and it is also why it can be corrected after the fact. Nothing is welded, so nothing is fixed. The same bolts that let it arrive in a box are the ones that decide whether it stands flat.
Levelling is the complaint that comes up most, and it comes up across markets. Owners describe loosening and re-tightening to stop a rock, one had to fit a foam pad under a leg, and two describe the finished table as slanted to one side. None of them describe a weak frame. The fix is in the order of work: leave every bolt finger tight, stand the table on the floor it will live on, and only then tighten, working across the frame rather than around it.
It has two surfaces rather than storage. The top takes a lamp, a glass and a phone, and the shelf halfway down takes a console, a stack of books or a plant. Buyers who arrive expecting a drawer are disappointed, and the honest answer is that a KUGGIS box fits the space and gives you one, or that the larger KNARREVIK is the same idea with 7 cm more height.
Powder-coated steel does not absorb moisture, does not swell and does not need the care a timber top does, which is why owners buy it for damp rooms and for teenagers. One calls it practically indestructible. The trade is that a chip goes through to bare steel and cannot be sanded out, and one reviewer finds the gauge thin and the look industrial.
The one thing to check before buying is what is behind it. A steel shelf in front of a wall socket means moving the table to plug anything in, which one owner describes doing every time. Put it where the socket is reachable, or run a short extension along the wall first, and the same metal becomes an advantage: an open frame lets a cable drop through and does not trap the heat a charger makes.
Wipe with a cloth dampened in a mild cleaner and dry with a clean cloth. Keep the bolts finger tight until the table is standing on the floor it will live on, then tighten across the frame. Touch in a chip in the powder coat before it spreads.