Advise... I need it!

So Ryan has given me the go ahead to start buying furniture to decorate our new (5 month old) house. The problem now is that I don't know where to start. I'm going to start with buying new night stands for our bedroom because I literally have been using a Home Depot box since we moved in and its a cheap and easy first step...

So I have some choices to make. One I could go the really simple route and order one of these choices from Ikea, 

Two, I could get unfinished furniture and stain it how I want:

This is an example from store around here, I'm not loving the feet or height of this one...

Or C I could take some initiative and find some antique or vintage store around Salt Lake to find something that I love. But who knows how costly that will be... The mind reels...