This is exactly what I needed to fit the space in my small kitchen. It gave me just enough extra storage with the two drawers and shelves for all my cookbooks. Several reviews said that you definitely need 2 people to assemble this, but in about 4-5 hours, I had it completely assembled and I did it alone. With just a little creativity, it can be done by one person and I even drilled some extra holes so that the bookshelves would be farther apart to fit my large cookbooks. So now instead of 3 shelves that are all roughly 7-8 inches tall, I have one small shelf at the top for mail and bags, and two 10-11 inch shelves that will easily hold most of my cookbooks. Relatively easy to assemble and seems very solid!