This piece looks a little cheap, and took nearly 2 hours for a professional handy-man to build.  There is a not a lot of value here. I would have been better off buying a piece that shipped built than having to pay on top of the cost to build it.  Or I could have gotten something for less at IKEA that would have been easier to build, and would have looked nicer (though the quality probably would not be as good - although this looks cheap, the quality is definitely better than IKEA)  It looks cheap because of the finish, and because the lines between parts are not clean - both because of design and how it comes together built.  Even if it built more "seamlessly" the design isn't great (proportions, lines, angles). You would not be able to tell this from a picture.  I will probably replace it very soon as the cheap and clunky look if it bothers me more as time goes on. I will probably never buy something like this online again