We needed something to rest the old bones on when slipping shoes on and off by the door.  Like that the 'lid' flips up and has some extra storage.  It's a bit smaller than we thought.  The worst part was the lack of instruction to assemble it.  What a flippin nightmare it was.  Almost 6 hours with two of us, and we're engineers.  We ended up manhandling it and using an electric screwdriver as most holes were incomplete or unusable and didn't line up. 
I get that it was made in China but for the US market, how about instructions in English?!  Please.