The wood is beautiful and the end result looks great. HOWEVER, the height of the middle shelves are very misleading. It says that they are 7-1/2 inches tall each. BUT there is a wooden support that sticks down at least an inch from the top of each shelf. You can't see them from the pictures. That means that if you have a speaker or a receiver that needs to fit in those shelves, it MUST be less than 6 inches tall. Mine is 7 inches.