Love this thing.  I'm over 200lbs and have no fear sitting on this to change my shoes.  I was worried that the drawers wouldn't be able to hold a pair of boots but they both fit in one drawer with room to spare!  No one wants to enter a house and see dirty boots or dirty cycling shoes, and I don't want to walk upstairs with them on and mess up the carpet so the spacious drawers are exactly what I was hoping for.  Being metal on metal, the drawers do squeak and don't "glide" in and out but I put some grease on the contact points and they feel 50% better.  The wood is quite a bit darker in real life--the flash on my camera has a brightening effect.