It meets my need for a place for the many people in our household to put their extra keys, sunglasses, spare change, etc.  Not the traditional use for this but certainly meets our needs.  The screws to hang it did not work at all.  They kept going into the wall too far to hang the shelf.  My husband had to buy some different hardware to get it to hang securely.  It looks nice though and is more elegant than just having everything thrown down on a table somewhere.