Finally I have a respectable place to put nighttime necessities! This item was well packaged and had only one marred area which I did not notice until I had finished assembling it, which took about 45 minutes using a phillips screwdriver and a phillips screwdriver that is bent 90 degrees in the middle which is supplied with the item (it is required to tighten some screws that are hard to get to otherwise). The defect in mine was just some flaking clear coating on the front edge of one of the sides. It looked kind of like a glaze that was peeling off of the laminate. Since I wasn't expecting perfection at this price, I just painted it over with some acrylic paint I had lying around and it looks perfect.Some have commented on the cheap dowel that keeps the top drawer in and I'll comment on that, too. For me, it's great. I have no problem with it. This is what happens: if you pull the drawer more than just a little ways out, the front end tips forward until the back of the drawer makes contact with the underside of the top of the stand. It may even slide the rest of the way open until the back of the drawer catches the dowel and the drawer stops. This causes the contents of the drawer to slide to the front of the drawer, which I quite like. Also, having the drawer tip forward is not so bad... it's kind of like it is unfolding its contents to you.To fix this drawer and make it behave like the bottom drawer, just glue a piece of wood to the top of the back wall of the top drawer, so that the back of the top drawer is essentially already making contact with the underside of the top of the stand. That is what the bottom drawer does and that is why it doesn't tip forward. If I'm bored one day, I'll probably do that myself but for now it's working just fine as is.
Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]