The finish is great and the piece when complete looks good. We purchased two of the bookcases in white for our living room. We started building them at 9 AM and finished around 4:30 PM, it is an extremely involved process that needs two people to put together. We needed to use a power drill for just about every screw or peg in the setup, the existing holes weren't drilled all the way through or were too difficult to screw in without pre-drilling a hole. One of the bookcases has a lean to the left as can be seen in the attached photo.