This thing is beautiful and theres no wobble but the assembly instructions are like a practical joke. I had to un/assemble bits of it a couple of times and redo them to get them right. At one point, i thought i was about finished. I was adding the backer board and realized that the middle shelf was backwards, which will prevent the backer board from fitting correctly. So i had to tear the whole thing down and start over because thats among the first few steps.
The problem is that the instruction drawings are not very detailed, so you have to guess whether to turn certain parts of it this way or that way. Ive assembled every kind of furniture there is, so Im not new to it, but this piece took me five hours plus a day to charge my drill.
Also, although the backer board has pre/drilled holes, the area where you actually attach it to the unit did not. So i had to locate my drill.take a day to recharge ittape the backer board to the unit, and drill the holes myself.
My only other complaint is that one or two pieces had chips in the finish. They were not prominently located, though, so I just filled them in with a dark brown sharpie.
All that pain in the rump aside, it really is as beautiful as it looks in the picture and once I finally got it put together, i was very pleased with my purchase. If they would pre/drill the back holes and update the instructions, i would definitely consider it a 5/star purchase.
Its beautiful, but.
This thing is beautiful and theres no wobble but the assembly instructions are like a practical joke. I had to un/assemble bits of it a couple of times and redo them to get them right. At one point, i thought i was about finished. I was adding the backer board and realized that the middle shelf was backwards, which will prevent the backer board from fitting correctly. So i had to tear the whole thing down and start over because thats among the first few steps. The problem is that the instruction drawings are not very detailed, so you have to guess whether to turn certain parts of it this way or that way. Ive assembled every kind of furniture there is, so Im not new to it, but this piece took me five hours plus a day to charge my drill. Also, although the backer board has pre/drilled holes, the area where you actually attach it to the unit did not. So i had to locate my drill.take a day to recharge ittape the backer board to the unit, and drill the holes myself. My only other complaint is that one or two pieces had chips in the finish. They were not prominently located, though, so I just filled them in with a dark brown sharpie. All that pain in the rump aside, it really is as beautiful as it looks in the picture and once I finally got it put together, i was very pleased with my purchase. If they would pre/drill the back holes and update the instructions, i would definitely consider it a 5/star purchase.