I was surprised that came disassembled and in a flat box; just having received some large chandeliers that were assembled, I guess I just expected the furniture would be, too. It serves the purpose; we needed a 15" wide side table to hold a DVD player and other TV equipment so that we could also hide all of the connections, which fit neatly into the bottom drawer from the back side. It's obviously not an heirloom piece, but it does what we needed it to do and looks just fine.