The photo and the description are inaccurate.  The unit is actually whitish with a greyish grain, but is described as white.  In the photo it looks like a smooth white mdf.
When my partner opened the box and removed the first shelf, he noticed the colour, which was not what we wanted, and he decided to spray the unit white.  Unfortunately when he removed the bottom two shelves from the box, he noticed they were broken.  By then he had painted two shelves, so we could not return the item.
Not impressed.