we had a difficult time putting this together as the shelf bits didn't line up, we think they packaged the parts wrong but all we know is in the end we had to jury rig it so that it could be used.  It also took several hours because of this to put it together at all.  Still I have rated it higher because I do like how it looks and we were able to find a way to use it and it looks lovely.  p.s. due to the wrong parts we did have to put it upside down to use it.