Max and Lily Scandinavian 6-Drawer Dresser

Six drawers is the whole point of the Max & Lily Scandinavian 6-Drawer Dresser, the main storage piece in the collection and the one built for the bedroom where the closet lost the argument years ago. Six drawers is enough to give one child a drawer per category, or to split a shared room three drawers each without buying two pieces of furniture.

Knot-free solid wood

It is made from knot-free solid pine and aspen rather than particleboard or veneer, which is the difference that decides how a dresser this size ages. A six-drawer chest carries real weight when it is full, and drawer boxes and side panels made of engineered board are where that weight eventually shows. Solid wood also means it survives being emptied, carried down a staircase and refilled in a new house.

Ways parents use six drawers

• Three drawers each in a shared room, so nobody has to negotiate
• One drawer per category: tops, bottoms, sleepwear, socks and underwear, sports gear, off-season
• Bottom drawers for the heavy things a younger child cannot reach into anyway

Six finishes

White, Blonde, Black, Pecan, White and Blonde two-tone, and Blonde and Black two-tone. The palette is shared across the Scandinavian beds, bunks and nightstands, so a dresser bought this year still matches a bed bought next year.

Finish, assembly and shipping

Max & Lily finishes it with a clean, low-VOC coating, worth caring about on the largest painted surface in the room. The dresser arrives flat-packed with clear instructions, hardware and the tools needed for assembly, and it is genuinely heavy, so plan on two people. It ships Canada-wide from Bedsmart, with returns handled in Canada rather than back across the US border.