My husband is a handy guy both inside and outside of the home, but even he found putting this storage piece together a very unpleasant experience. He put it together once but found the shelf wouldn't rest correctly on the pins in the holes provided. We took it all apart and had another try but same results. We have once more taken it apart and put it back in the box. However we can't return it because it was on sale, plus we had tried to put it together. We have another piece arriving shortly and I just called and paid $70 to have someone else put that together. Don't want to go through that frustrating experience again. And by the way, the piece is black. Silly me, I thought espresso was brown.