They say you get what you paid for. But this time, they were wrong. I was looking for a narrow coffee table, and I thought I had found a decent one. I knew this was an inexpensive coffee table and that it probably wasn't going to be the greatest. I had set my expectations accordingly, but this coffee table looks really, really bad. The parts do not fit together well (you can see edges of unfinished surfaces), the finish on the top part of the legs is rough, and the overall design just screams CHEAP! Add to that the fact that the assembly instructions were marginal and it took much longer to assemble than I anticipated (I've put together a LOT of furniture). I'm really disappointed.