This piece looks nice from a distance, but up close you can tell it's cheap.  The material has a strange glossy feel to it. Pieces of the glossy coating kept chipping off as my husband and I put this together. The directions were not great, but we did manage to get it put together in just a little over an hour, somehow defying gravity. It's not bad for the price, but had I known what it would look like up close, I wouldn't have purchased.