I love this bookshelf. I put it together by myself and I'm not usually good at that kind of thing. It was easy if a bit tedious to put together (pay careful attention to which ends to attache the bars to the boards). It is true what other reviewers have mentioned about seeing the screws on the bottom of the shelf, but that doesn't bother me. Maybe it's because I have it in a darker room with gray walls, but it doesn't look cheap to me (some other reviewers mentioned this). I like the concrete look. Definitely very happy with this. It's what I expected. I didn't have problems with holes not aligning--they weren't always exact but they always worked.