This was disappointing, and especially for the price. A number of the pieces had very noticeable cracks and splits. When I put it together, the posts were not straight and I wasn't even sure I would be able to get it all to fit together. Luckily I'm using this mostly as a cat tree, and the cats could care less what it looks like. It's also in a room where no one is going to be paying much attention to its flaws. If it hadn't been such a pain to ship back a piece of furniture, I would have returned this, though.