It works fine so far and I like the way the shelving units look.  But the shelves are held up by these plastic clips that you snap on to the rods and they don't completely close or really do much to stop the shelves from sliding down.  When I was assembling the unit, sometimes the plastic clips would just snap off and fly across the room.  I'm afraid of that happening if I were to put something heavy or fragile on the shelves.