Sooo glad I paid extra for the assembler. Took 2 hours to put together and he knew what he was doing. The cabinet is holding my cookbooks which have to lay on their sides now as the cabinet is high enough to set them upright. The cabinet is cute in the space and breaks up my oak dining room set but will figure out how to apply a furniture wax to it. It's also very heavy so where it is is where it will stay. It does work however I'm not absolutely in love with it.