I love the overall look and sturdiness of the final piece, but I don't know if there was ONE individual piece that didn't have some defect (I'm pretty picky). And there was a pretty significant crack through the wood of one piece that I was just too lazy to return (especially after taking all the pieces out of the box). The instructions also could have been better. But overall MUCH nicer than anything you could get at Target, etc. But for the price you expect less defects.