I love the look of this ottoman. However, the lower shelf is too short to fit between the legs. It constantly falls out onto the floor. I contemplated returning it at first for a replacement, but it was so much work to build that I couldn't see taking it apart and repackaging it to ship out again. Instead, I've tried every makeshift solution I can think of to get the shelf to stay put, but nothing has worked. Either this is terribly made or I received I pretty bad defect. :(