Exactly as described. In my opinion it does look best once you put some books or something else in the shelves, since that breaks up the lines a bit. And as several people mentioned the places for the screws on the bottom are obvious and look cheap - but that is easy to fix with a black sharpie.  I would suggest you color in the holes before assembling because otherwise it's hard to get in around the screws.  My 12-year old daughter set it up while I was doing something else, so clearly pretty easy to assemble.