We were looking for an ottoman for a while....my husband found one at Sam Levit's which was a 1/3 of the size as this one, and had no storage for the same price...I had him return it and went online and found this perfect ottoman....we use the storage as a toy box for our kids' toys...it's perfect! It's sturdy enough where you can have multiple people sit on it...the color is perfect (dark brown) and it has a cool safety feature where it's easy to put the top up, but it has more resistance when putting it down so that your toddlers won't lock each other in it :)