This piece is stunning, heavy, and well built. LOVE IT!  Arrived so well packed and in perfect condition (even when it was pouring rain at time of delivery and the it slipped out of the poor delivery guys' hands and had a small fall on the corner).  As far as assembly, we just needed to add the legs and that took about five minutes.   I heard some complaints about the variation in wood tones, but that adds to the beauty of this brutalist-style piece, in my opinion.  The one confounding thing that had me removing a star (wish it could just be a half star deduction) is that it has no knobs to open the doors.  It's nearly impossible to open them without some weird side finger grabbing of one of the raised pieces. BUT, for $4.99 and drilling a couple of holes, we added them, and they look great.