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8 Drawer Dresser with LED Lights and Charging Station, Brown
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8 Drawer Dresser with LED Lights and Charging Station, Brown

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$249.99
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A wood-tone finish is the hardest surface to put colored light on. White bounces it and black absorbs it, but a brown panel has a color of its own, so a blue or green setting fights the warmth already in the finish and reads as a wash of something murky. Amber and the warm end of the range do the opposite and deepen the wood. This is the one case where the lighting wants setting once, leaving on a warm preset, and treating as an accent on the floor rather than a feature on the cabinet.

Drawers
Eight
Finish
Brown wood tone, waterproof
Power
2 AC outlets, 2 USB sockets
Lighting
RGB, app or remote

How it lives in the room

Warm presets suit a brown panel

Run the warm end of the range against the finish and stop there. Saturated colors on a wood tone turn the panel a shade it was never meant to be, while amber and soft white reinforce what is already in it. Setting it once and saving that preset is the difference between an accent and a distraction.

Give the remote one named drawer

A remote for a piece of furniture disappears within a month, and the app is a fallback that needs a charged phone. Assign the remote a fixed home in one drawer on the first day and return it there every time. The cabinet also has to stay powered for either control to do anything at all.

Anchor it, then route the cord

Fit the supplied anti-tip kit to a stud first, then decide which side the power cord leaves from and clip it to the back panel. In that order the cabinet never has to move again. In the other order it means pulling a loaded eight-drawer carcass away from the wall to reach a cable.

Before you order

Wood-tone finishes vary between production batches, so a brown cabinet bought now will not necessarily match one bought in six months. If it is meant to pair with a second unit or a bed frame, order them at the same time.