Sturdy and beautiful but instructions are a headache (read review save you some time)
Let me start by saying I’m a machine tech and a auto mechanic I have put together hundreds of pieces of furniture in my life time so I’m warning you there is a quality control issue with the company making this shoe bench. I always start by making sure all pieces and hardware are in the box and checking the instructions to match the pieces are there , before I begin to save me headaches later .with that being said I found right away a issue none of the pieces had the label stickers telling what piece was what so I ended up looking at the instructions pictures to guess what piece the instructions where telling me to use for the most part that system worked , but I’m thinking this would be bad for someone that have never or rarely puts particle board wood furniture together because I end up putting several pieces myself in the wrong orientation because several of the pieces look exactly the same but they where left and right side and would not become apparent until you need to line holes up and screw together with other parts and the holes are on the wrong side after a couple times of this happening which caused for taking sections apart that you had finished to correct this issue which became frustrating and time consuming something of this size you would expect to take around 2 -3 hours turned into 4-5 but if you do manage to get to the end of installation without breaking anything because of the unscrewing and retighting to the particle board which can damage easy if not taking your time to make sure it’s straight the whole way in also as mentioned by others the shoe cubbies are made of thin 1inch laminate board that goes together like a jig saw puzzle which I found after no clear instructions to do so do the middle piece first then both ends and then the rest . ,with all the difficulties the end product is sturdy and nice looking as pictured would I buy from this company again no
Sturdy and beautiful but instructions are a headache (read review save you some time)
Let me start by saying I’m a machine tech and a auto mechanic I have put together hundreds of pieces of furniture in my life time so I’m warning you there is a quality control issue with the company making this shoe bench. I always start by making sure all pieces and hardware are in the box and checking the instructions to match the pieces are there , before I begin to save me headaches later .with that being said I found right away a issue none of the pieces had the label stickers telling what piece was what so I ended up looking at the instructions pictures to guess what piece the instructions where telling me to use for the most part that system worked , but I’m thinking this would be bad for someone that have never or rarely puts particle board wood furniture together because I end up putting several pieces myself in the wrong orientation because several of the pieces look exactly the same but they where left and right side and would not become apparent until you need to line holes up and screw together with other parts and the holes are on the wrong side after a couple times of this happening which caused for taking sections apart that you had finished to correct this issue which became frustrating and time consuming something of this size you would expect to take around 2 -3 hours turned into 4-5 but if you do manage to get to the end of installation without breaking anything because of the unscrewing and retighting to the particle board which can damage easy if not taking your time to make sure it’s straight the whole way in also as mentioned by others the shoe cubbies are made of thin 1inch laminate board that goes together like a jig saw puzzle which I found after no clear instructions to do so do the middle piece first then both ends and then the rest . ,with all the difficulties the end product is sturdy and nice looking as pictured would I buy from this company again no