We purchased the unfinished version so that we could stain it to better fit the color of our floor - a sort of limed oak. The unit is solid, well constructed and took a stain readily. The first coat of urethane raised the wood grain, but that'll sand off easily.

We ended up ordering 2 more to hold our DVD collection. If you lay the DVDs on their sides, you can fit 5 columns of 9-10 DVDs on each shelf - about 225 DVDs all told.