It's solid and pretty, and although it took a couple hours to put together, everything WENT together without much trouble. The little clamping mechanism to hold the pieces together is pretty neat; had never seen that before. Reason for a missing star is that some pieces arrived damaged, per photos. Luckily they were pieces that you can't really see when all the drawers & doors are closed. Everything else about it is good! We do have to clean the top a lot because of the cat paw prints (only downside to stainless steel; it shows every smudge... but it's still the most sanitary (after a cleaning!)).