This is a great little chest.  Made from pressed wood with veneer, it comes in a box and must assembled.  All one needs is a good medium-sized Phillips head screwdriver.  Pieces were relabeled well, instructions, although brief, are easy to figure out, and assembly went well.  Th screws actually readily found the holes into which they were to be screwed!  This speaks well of the construction.  One caveat for me: when pulled out, one can not easily see into the back of each of the 5 shelves.  What I did was remove the 2 screws attaching each shelf to their two runners.  Now each shelf is physically on their 2 runners, but not attached and so can be pulled out as far as one wants.  One can even of course thereby remove a given shelf completely from the chest, and take it elsewhere for filling or whatever.