Urban Port Mia 23 Inch Nightstand, holds your bedside items

you run your hand across the top and feel the warm, slightly uneven grain of mango wood under your palm. Urban Port’s mia nightstand—the 23-inch woven-cane piece—reads quietly considerable, giving the bedside a calm visual anchor without looking bulky. The cane front softens the shape; the drawer and single cabinet melt into the pattern untill you open them and the same wood texture continues inside. Its three-inch legs lift the unit just enough to let light slip beneath, and the top wears a lamp and a mug without seeming cluttered. When the magnetic door closes it makes a muted,reassuring click,and up close the varied brown finish and tiny knots make the piece look like it’s been part of the room for a while.

When you first set it down in your bedroom: a visual introduction

When you place it beside your bed, the piece settles into the room with an easy, unforced presence. Up close the front shows a faint lattice of woven cane that throws a soft, patterned shadow across the cabinet face as light moves through the window; from a few steps back that texture quiets into a warm, tonal panel that breaks the broader wash of wood. The top reads as a modest, usable plane — not commanding, but visually substantial enough to anchor a bedside lamp and a few nighttime essentials without feeling crowded.

As you shift around it — nudging it flush to the mattress,tucking a cord behind the leg,smoothing a stray bookmark on the surface — the grain and finish reveal small variations that change with angle and light. The three-inch-ish rise on its legs leaves a thin shadow beneath, which can make the nightstand feel slightly lifted from the floor and helps its silhouette read clearly against carpet or hardwood. The drawer and single door sit flush most of the time, but when opened the front edges and internal shadow reveal the depth that wasn’t obvious at first glance, a subtle reminder that the piece is both an object in the room and a small, functioning landscape you’ll move around and live beside.

What you’ll see up close in the woven cane and natural mango wood grain

Up close, the woven cane reads like a small-scale textile stretched across the cabinet face. You’ll see the individual strands cross and recross, not perfectly uniform but consistent enough to form a clear pattern; some fibers are paler, some take a warmer honey tone. Light filters through the weave at certain angles, casting faint lattice shadows on the interior when the door is open. If you run a fingertip over it, the cane gives a little — a subtle springiness rather than hard resistance — and you may notice tiny stray fibers or specks of dust settling in the intersections.

The natural mango wood grain looks like a sequence of narrow ribbons and broader swaths, alternating between lighter amber and deeper brown streaks. Close inspection reveals knots and occasional thin fissures that follow the grain, and the finish highlights these variations so they read as depth rather than flat color.Where planks meet or the wood wraps around an edge, the direction of the grain shifts; you can see slight seams and the end grain on leg tops or inner panels. Over time and with regular handling, the surface sheen can soften in places you touch often, making the grain contrast feel a bit more muted in those spots.

Measurements and drawer space as you arrange it beside your bed

Placed next to a mattress, the piece sits at about 23 inches high, which in most cases brings the top surface close to the level of a standard bedside.Its roughly 18 by 18 inch footprint keeps the unit compact in plan, so it tends to occupy little visual floor space but can project slightly past narrower bedframes or slim headboard profiles. The 3‑inch legs lift the base off the floor enough to clear low-profile rug edges and make sweeping or vacuuming beneath the nightstand easier in most rooms.

Measured from the user’s interaction with the storage, the single drawer and the cabinet open into distinct workspaces. The shallow drawer—with a 5‑inch interior height—typically accepts folded books, remote controls, small charging blocks, or eyeglass cases without crowding, while the cabinet’s taller cavity provides room for bulkier items that are stored upright. The drawer’s length and width leave a modest margin around common bedside objects, so stacking several items tends to need occasional reshuffling rather than a full reorganization.

Hands-on use tends to reveal a few small trade-offs: the drawer’s shallow depth encourages keeping bedside clutter modest, and larger bedside objects sometimes sit across both top and cabinet space. Over time, users often nudge the nightstand slightly to align it with bedding or to create a narrow walking path, which can change how the drawer and cabinet are accessed from one side versus the other.

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How you handle it day to day opening the drawer the cabinet door and the hardware movement

When you reach for the drawer it usually responds to a confident fingertip tug. The pull of the handle gives you just enough purchase that you instinctively use your thumb and forefinger, sometimes the heel of your hand, to ease it outward. At first motion ther can be a touch of resistance as the drawer negotiates its runners, then a steady glide. the movement feels weighted rather than floaty; you notice the contents shift a hair and the drawer settles back into place without a hard slam when you close it slowly.

Opening the cabinet door is a slightly different rhythm. You tend to hook a finger around the handle and swing the door open in one smooth motion. The woven front yields a faint give under your hand, and the hinge trace is audible only as a soft creak on colder mornings. When you close the door it meets a magnetic pull that seats it with a quiet click; sometimes you nudge it a hair to get that last little alignment, especially if you’ve set something heavy inside. With regular use the action loosens up a bit and feels more fluid than on day one.

How it matches your expectations and the practical limits you may encounter

At first glance, the piece tends to align with basic expectations for a bedside surface: the top accepts a lamp, a book, and a cup without feeling crowded, and the drawer and cabinet deliver the sort of speedy access people reach for at night. Over time, the natural grain and finish become more noticeable under touch and light; it’s common to smooth the top with the palm or nudge the door closed one-handed, small habits that reveal how the materials respond in daily use. The woven front reads as tactile rather than flat—dust settles into the weave more noticeably than on flat wood, and the magnetic catch usually brings the door into place with a soft click, though a slight adjustment is sometimes needed after shifting items around inside.

In routine use, certain practical limits emerge without dramatic surprise. The interior space accommodates day-to-day essentials but will feel snug when holding taller or bulkier objects, and arranging items on the top can require a quick rearrange to clear the cabinet opening. the finish can warm under repeated handling and collect faint marks from cups or wristwatches, which tend to smooth out or become less visible as the piece ages. Moving the unit across a room reveals its solid weight—gentle two-person lifts or a careful pivot are common—while its short legs make floor cleaning straightforward but leave little room for very low-profile storage underneath. These behaviors appear gradually rather than all at once and are frequently enough noticed in the cadence of regular use rather than promptly on assembly.

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Assembly and care observations from unboxing through the first few weeks

When you open the box, the first thing you notice is how the components are nested and wrapped; a soft wood scent lifts out with the packing, and a small sealed bag of fasteners sits on top. As you line up the legs and fit them to the base, the pre-drilled holes guide the screws but you still end up nudging a leg an extra millimeter to get everything square. The included tool works, though you find yourself tightening bolts a second time after the piece has sat upright for a day. During that initial assembly you’ll probably smooth fingerprints off the top more than once; the finish shows handling at close range, and the woven panel accepts a light press that makes the cane give slightly under a fingertip.

Over the first week the drawers and door settle into their channels. The drawer glide feels a touch stiff at first and then loosens with normal use, while the magnetic catch on the door holds reliably but can sound a little firmer or softer depending on how the cabinet sits on the floor; moving the nightstand a few inches tends to change that. You’ll notice tiny wood dust particles in the cane weave and at joins after a few days — not a spill, just everyday settling — and you may find yourself brushing along seams or giving a knob a habitual twist when reaching for something by bedside.

Throughout those early weeks you’ll catch yourself adjusting small things—a leg, a drawer front, a misplaced decorative item—and those moments reveal how the piece lives in an ordinary room. The textures and joins keep changing subtly as you use it: the cane traps a little lint, the wood darkens a hair where hands rest most often, and screws that felt tight out of the box sometimes ask for one more pass with the wrench. These are the kinds of, mostly minor, shifts that happen as a crafted wooden bedside becomes part of daily movement and touch.

Its Place in Everyday Living

You notice how the piece loosens into the room over time, picking up the soft marks of use instead of holding the look of new. The Urban port Mia 23 Inch Nightstand, Woven Cane cabinet Door and Drawer, Handcrafted Natural Brown Mango Wood sits beside the bed and, in regular household rhythms, becomes part of how the corner is arranged. In daily routines it shows up in small ways — where your lamp rests, the faint wear on the surface, the drawer sliding open as the room is used — and then mostly fades into the background of habit. It stays.