Exactly as described. I am short on counter space so I have a Keurig and a tea pot on top, coffee and tea in the little drawers, potatoes and onions in the wire drawers, coffee mugs on one shelf, cookbooks on the other and 6 bottles of wine on the bottom. That's a lot of stuff in one little space! Very easy to put together if you take a moment to carefully sort out the different parts. My husband grabbed two pieces and started screwing them together but he had the wrong ones. Some of the pieces only have subtle differences and I can see the assembly going very wrong if you switched pieces unintentionally. A few minutes of proper preparation and it went together like a charm. Looks good. Great solution for organization in a compact space.