The manufactured wood is a little cheap feeling and looking. It took forever to put together, probably around 3.5 hours for two of us. A drill is definitely required. When we finally got it all together, one of the doors wouldn’t shut properly and we had to take it off and start again. I think it looks stylish and I like that it has a lot of storage, but next time I’ll probably go with something that is solid wood so that the effort it takes to put together seems more worth it.