Love this bookcase! We needed something with closed cabinets on the bottom because we have a small child and didn't want him to have access to stuff on the bottom. It's unique design makes it an interesting piece plus we needed the extra column of cubed shelving, It took 4-5 hours for my husband, who's pretty handy, to assemble. They only shipped one of the two boxes so we had to call to get the second box shipped. They shipped both boxes again so now we have the hassle of calling again to get a shipping label and returning the extra box. Ugh!