This is bigger in person than it looks in the picture. (I should have paid attention to the size details and measured the height of the chair arm it was going to stand next to.) That said, I found the perfect spot for it  as a stand-alone table with a narrow profile. The milling on the bottom shelf was a little sloppy - a chunk out of one edge, a split on another edge. You can't see the defects when it is assembled, but I had expected it to match the quality of the TV stand I recently purchased.