The piece appears to be sturdy and is holding up nicely in my dining room. The reason I gave it 3 stars is because the trim around the top shelf is brown. Perhaps I missed that in the description, but I would not have purchased this particular cart if I would have known it was brown. With that being said, it is a fine cart and I am contemplating somehow changing the brown to another color, just haven't figured out how to do that based on the current finish.