This bench is beautiful, and made much more sturdy than I expected for the price. The baskets themselves are pretty, but once I placed items inside them they began to shed on the bottom. We used a piece of sticky felt to cover the bottom of the baskets so they do not scrape their color and weave on the wood. However overall the piece is gorgeous! Also, the box arrived terribly damaged from shipping but the piece was SO well packed and protected that it was fine!