13 Best Cheap Dressers Under $200 (Most Under $100)

Nine fabric drawers, a steel frame and a solid top for about $54. If you've got a lot of folded clothes and very little to spend, start here. The large drawers are rated for 22 pounds and the small ones for 11, and the top takes 66, so a lamp and a stack of books are fine. Adjustable feet handle a crooked floor and there's an anti-tip kit in the box. Up close it looks like what it is, a storage tower with fabric bins, and the ink black hides that better than the lighter colors do.

Thirty-three dollars. This is the answer when the budget is under $50 and you need clothes off the floor by Friday. Two large and three medium fabric drawers sit under a wooden top, on a steel frame with cross bars, rated for 66 pounds fully loaded. It goes together in about 20 minutes, which makes it a good first-apartment or dorm buy. Don't overfill it, since fabric bins sag when they're packed with jeans, and use the lower drawers for the heavy stuff.

Want to skip fabric bins but stay well under $100? These four drawers have rigid panels that hold their shape, each about 18 by 12 inches and 6.6 deep. The open metal base lifts everything 5.5 inches off the floor, so the bottom drawer isn't a deep knee bend and a robot vacuum can get underneath. That raised look is also what makes it pass for something pricier. At 21 by 14 inches it's small, so treat it as a dresser for one person's basics. Black or white, within a dollar of each other.

No legs and one solid box, so there's far less to wobble than on a dresser balanced on four thin feet. A white dresser under $100 usually has to give something up, and here that's the fancy details: flat fronts, a simple top, a wipe-clean surface over particleboard. In a small bedroom that plainness works, since it disappears against a white wall and doubles as a big bedside table. Measure the height against your mattress if you want it next to the bed.

A dresser under the TV saves buying two pieces of furniture, and this one is the cheap way to do it. It's 39.4 inches wide, 30.5 tall and fits TVs up to 45 inches, with seven fabric drawers for clothes or game controllers. Only 11.8 inches deep, though, so check that your TV's feet fit on the top before you order. Wall-mounting above it gets around that. The white reads clean in a bedroom, and rustic brown costs about $10 more.

Bedrooms never have enough outlets, so this one builds in two AC outlets and two USB ports on a 5-foot cord, right where the TV and the console plug in. The top is 47 inches wide and carries 66 pounds, enough for most sets up to 55 inches. Eight fabric drawers come in two sizes, the bigger ones about 14.5 by 11 inches. I'd leave the color LED strip switched off most of the time, unless this is a teenager's room or a game setup, in which case it's the whole point. For a proper media piece, see my cheap TV stands.

Sorters, this is yours. Twelve removable bins give every category its own home, in a frame 34 inches wide and just under 42 tall. Rustic brown is the cheapest color and the warmest in a bedroom. Twelve small drawers won't swallow a bulky sweater the way one big one does, so the Pipleo at #1 is the better home for winter clothes. For kids' clothes, craft stuff and anything small, this is about the cheapest way to get it all organized.

Under 16 inches wide and under 12 deep, this cheap small dresser fits where nothing else will: inside a closet, at the end of a dorm bed, in the slice of wall behind a door. Three fabric drawers aren't a whole wardrobe, so think of it as the overflow for socks, T-shirts and pajamas. It's also tall enough, at 29.5 inches, to work as a nightstand. If bedside is the real need, my budget nightstands has sturdier ones.

The mirror adjusts for height and angle, so a tall person and a short one can both use it, and that's rare at about $60. It's a dresser and a small vanity in 15.5 inches of wall, with four fabric drawers and two open shelves for the bottles and brushes. Those shelves are open, which means they look as tidy as you are. Tiny for a full wardrobe, right for a dorm or a shared room. It won't show you head to toe, so if that's what you're after, look at my full-length mirrors.

Of everything here, this is the one that looks least like a budget dresser. The lines are crisp, the slim handles are gold-toned, and the Cloud White is softer than the usual bright white. What I'd really pay for is the safety hardware: rear wall anchors, front stabilizers, and drawer stops with two positions to cut the risk of a drawer pulling out. The deep lower drawers are meant for sweaters and light quilts. It's MDF and particleboard, like nearly every dresser at this price, so assemble it where it's going to live and don't drag it around afterward.

Black furniture can look flat and heavy when it's cheap. The curved base and metal handles on this one keep it from going that way. It's 47.2 inches wide, with six drawers rated at 20 pounds each, and the maker says the top carries up to 250 pounds, enough to hold a TV. Scratch-resistant surfaces help, though black still shows every speck of dust, so expect to wipe it down more than you would a white one. Brown costs about $20 more.

Share a bedroom? Fifty-three inches gets you a side each, and six large drawers make this the one dresser here that can hold two people's clothes. An extra support plate under each drawer helps stop the bottoms bowing, the top holds 110 pounds, and at 30.9 inches tall it slides under most windows. Measure your doorway first, and line up a helper: this is a big flat-pack box and a two-person assembly. It's also the priciest pick, so buy it for the width, or the VASAGLE at #11 makes more sense.