if you order this shoe cabinet without checking the reviews you will waste your time and money, false advertisment on website, It can not hold 18 shoes, may be baby shoes or kids shoe can be fit in it, if your shoe size is 9 (mens) only two shoes can be fit in lower space, the gray thing is a paper on some kind of artificial wood, which is not wood. parts are plastics, its only good for decoration for one year and than piece of trash.