i LOVE this tv stand!!! it looks great and goes well with all my other furniture in the living room so the look of it isn't the issue. what IS an issue is the fact that i had to cut a portion of one of the black cover boards to make it fit in the grooves. some parts that were already manufactured together were off by a little bit so i had to work around it to make it fit. one other thing that isn't so great is that it scratches easily but that's because i had it face down on my hardwood floor when i was putting it together and my floor may have had some small hard pieces of stuff that might have scratched against it. so just be careful where you lay your stand down when putting it together to prevent scratching.