I'm happy with the chest now that it's built and in use. The drawers are really spacious and it looks good as long as you don't look too close. The pieces arrived with some minor but noticeable damage, and it takes many hours for two people to build. It's not particularly hard, just time consuming. The complaints about a lack of guide holes are silly - there's always one where you need to start a screw, just not always one on the piece you're attaching it too. Pine is a very soft wood, and you don't need to pre-drill holes, and you might damage it if you tried. The soft nature of the wood means you also need to be very careful with it. I bumped one drawer into another during assembly and dented it.