Sturdy and true to description.  I have a very large and long living room and needed something to help define two areas.   This works perfect and is very pretty.  I have two cats that run and chase each other through out the living room and they have never knocked this divider over (something I was worried they would do).  The only down flaw is when you first put it up, it has a odd smell, but that went away in a day or two.