It seems quite sturdy at the end of all the assembling and the sliding of the flip drawers is pretty seamless. On the downside, it does take a lot of time to assemble and there were a few times during the process that I needed to hammer something in where I thought I have destroyed the whole thing. In some instances, some small pieces of wood pop out as I needed to hammer things in which leaves some marks when the flip drawers open where one can spot some mishaps unfortunately... Oh well... Oh and for men's shoes I would say more of a 15-pair capacity rather than 18.