I was not going to buy this spacesaver b/c of all the bad reviews, but when they put it on sale I took a chance. It is BEAUTIFUL !! . Some things you need to know :
1. Dont read the instructions they are very confusing ( go by the pictures it is very detailed and exact)
2. Someone mentioned different shades of white, NOT mine everything matched
3. The glue was weird but I still used it I recomend using wood glue (some parts of it was chunky maybe it was old )
4. The production date on my item was 9/2010 maybe thats why I didnt have any issues they could have fixed previous issues
5. For every nail or screw there's two wooden dowls that go with it , one on each side for support it came with about 44 wooden dowls I used about 30
With all that said I would recomend buying this item, I put this together by myself the only part I did need help with was putting the top part on top of the legs and my husband did it just fine by himself , a bit heavy for me. It took me about an hour and a half to put together but I was watching tv and taking my time . I say someone can do this in 40 minutes to an hour tops