I'm banishing bedside clutter with this £4 Dunelm buy – I've been waiting months for it to come back into stock

I'm not surprised this budget-friendly storage solution keeps selling out

A navy bedroom with an upholstered bedframe and terracotta bedding
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Dunelm is always one of my go-to stores for stylish and affordable home storage, and I think this year the brand's collection is better than ever.

There's one particular £4 bedroom storage buy that I've had my eye on since I first spied it on the brand's website back in January. The only problem: the stylish yet budget-friendly The Edited Life Felt Bedside Pocket Organiser keeps selling out just as quickly as it comes back into stock.

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It may look simple, but this is a clever (and affordable) solution for banishing bedside mess and creating a calm, clutter-free bedroom.

If you're anything like me, then you'll know that any surface in the home can quickly become a clutter magnet if you're not careful, and, in my case at least, nowhere is this more apparent than my bedside tables.

I feel like I tidy them up at least once a day, and yet in no time at all, they seem to accumulate a roster of new items. The latest book I'm reading, my eyemask, jewellery, you name it, this 'clutter' seems to gravitate to my bedside table and then... stay there.

A bed with a grey bedside table next to it

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The result isn't quite the calming and artfully styled bedside set-up that I'm always aiming for.

But as any good home organisation expert will tell you, bedroom clutter only exists when your bedroom storage ideas aren't quite on point. And that's exactly the problem the Dunelm Bedside Pocket Organiser sets out to rectify.

This felt organiser sits neatly between your mattress and your bedframe, and a range of different-sized pockets provide space for your phone, reading glasses, medication, or the bedroom TV remote.

It's very unobtrusive, and the perfect solution for storing all those everyday essentials (that would otherwise gather on my bedside table) out of sight.

Dunelm The Edited Life Felt Bedside Pocket Organiser

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Those Dunelm shoppers who managed to nab this organiser the first time it hit the shelves have already rated it 5 out of 5-stars, saying it's 'exactly as the picture; easy to use and saves clutter on the bedside table... does the job perfectly.'

There are similar options on the market, such as the £6.99 Esteopt Felt Bedside Storage Bag or the £16.99 Kikkerland Boiled Wool Bedside Pocket, both available from Amazon, but, to my mind at least, none of them are quite as stylish as this Dunelm option.

Like a lot of the brand's The Edited Life storage collection, it's made from thick-cut felt in an off-white neutral colourway, and I think it's the perfect combination of style, practicality, and affordability.

In fact, I'm tempted by the whole of the Edited Life storage collection, especially the felted collection, which I think looks far more expensive than its price tag might suggest.

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However, it's the ingenious Bedside Pocket Organiser that's really caught my eye, and judging by how quickly it keeps selling out, I'm not the only one who's impressed!

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Amy Lockwood
Sleep Editor

Amy is Ideal Home’s Sleep Editor and the Ideal Home Certified Expert on Sleep. She's spent the last five years researching and writing about what makes for the best night’s sleep during the day and testing out sleep products to find the best-in-class by night. So far she’s clocked up over 10,000 hours of pillow, duvet, and mattress testing experience.

Our go-to for all things sleep-related, she’s slept on and under bestselling products from Simba, Emma, Hypnos, Tempur, Silentnight, Panda, and many many more.

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