This is a sturdy and good shelf.  It looks great from a distance.  The reason it gets 3/5 stars is we paid the price because the description says the shelves are made of wood.  We were expecting particle board, but hoping for actual wood.  In reality, the shelves are plastic and are painted to look like wood.  Plastic is not wood and thus we feel mislead, and would have bought a different shelf had we known.