It’s a cute bookshelf. Ours arrived with a couple of chips on the wood pieces. And one of the small shelf inserts has some kind of yellow stain on the white side. It’s relatively easy to put together, but I found the nailing of the back onto the unit to be the hardest. You really do need a rubber mallet, which I have. But my mallet is a tad large and the nails are super short, so it made holding the whole piece in place AND hammering the nail in correctly a challenging task. Otherwise, it works for what I need (I hope). It looks nice standing vertically, but it could also be cute laying horizontally.