The file cabinet is actually as we expected, made up of particle board with laminate finish. Assembly is easy enough though you have to be sure to keep things square as you get it together since some of the pre-drilled holes aren't as well aligned as you might like.

Once assembled, the overall piece looks nice enough but does still have a little bit of that assembled particle board furniture look to it.

Our biggest complaint is the drawer bottom. These are flimsy at best, so really the drawers can only be used for files. If you wanted to put anything aside from files (which hang from the drawer sides) in the drawers, the bottom will bow and likely fall through in time. It would have been trivial to make the bottoms a bit thicker making the drawers fully functional as drawers as well as file hangers.