My wife and I really like this coffee table. The extra drawers are perfect for putting in remote controls which tend to lie around as well as other odds and ends which tend to lie around, like candles and various types of tape. The major selling point for us for this was the extending top. It really works well and the hardware used by the company to achieve this feature seems pretty solid. When it is put all the way up it stays all the way up, unless you push hard down on it, and even then, it recesses back down rather gently. Our biggest complaint is the finish of the wood. It's a nice color and is just like the pictures, but whomever stained it did a poor job staining it. The stain is unfortunately rather inconsistent in places. (thus 4 instead of 5 stars)