It took two of us almost four hours to put this together, mainly because of the assembly/instructions.  The color is a nice dark brown and seems sturdy (on hardwood).  It holds a lot of books, and is a stylish option.

The directions are a really negative, however.  There are only illustrations, which is typically fine, but it is so unclear I was astounded.  We assembled most of it (according to what we thought was right because of the Step 1 diagram), then had to literally disassemble the entire thing and pull out the wooden dowels because we went too far.  My recommendation is to basically skip Step 1 and add in the shortest dowels as necessary (when it's not marked in the later steps).  After we started over, and adopted this method, it went much more quickly.  

Pros: Good value
Cons: Assembly