I'm on the fence with these bookcases.  Cost-wise you can't beat them. It's also extremely difficult to find affordable bookcases that have covered/enclosed lower halves.  The doors are a little tricky to put together, but otherwise we did okay building 4 of these.  I'm disappointed that the color reads more as dark brown; I really thought they would look black.  The one other thing that I didn't like was the backing, it is cheap folded cardboard, and if your books don't cover it, you will see it.  I will probably add wallpaper or fabric to cover that part of it.