I'm beyond impressed with this.  I just finished assembling it and I'm insanely happy with the quality of it.  I was able to assemble it on my own and the trickiest part was attaching the drawers to the base.  My only gripe which isn't a big deal are the handles are plastic so you get this beautiful piece of furniture of mixed wood/medal with plastic handles.  I say not that big a deal because I can easily replace them with something better quality.  I dont think that 24 pairs of mens shoes even size 8 will fit, max 18 pairs of mens shoes will fix.