I bought this for my sons first apartment that has limited kitchen counter space. He says it will work. My husband helped him put together and says it took 3 12 hours most difficult piece put together to-date. “How can one glue all the dowel’s in, when all the holes are not depth set properly, apparently when he glued two of the dowel’s they  did not go in deep enough which made it punch out the other side, he was very disappointed”, to others, he says to - pay very close attention to the Depth when glueing all the dowels!  Says the material is cheesy  low quality material- beware