These are beautiful heavy duty bookcases that take some work to put together. We purchased two; unfortunately, one of them arrived with a crack along one of the sides. We patched it with wood glue and it does not appear to have any structural problems. Still, a little disappointing to have a crack in something this expensive, but we didn't have the energy to figure out how to repack the whole thing and deal with the replacement process. Otherwise, they look great put together.