Mine (I bought 2) were delivered yesterday.
I just put them together this morning so I thought I’d share some assembly tips/ give some feedback if anyone checks back here.
First, one of my boxes had clearly been opened before (side was buckled like when you try to stuff things back into the box they came, and you can never get it to fit nice and perfect like the manufacturer did, plus the top that was glued shut was no longer stuck together like my other one was, plus it was torn a little bit where the tape was), BUT all the pieces were still there and individually packaged so I didn’t think it was worth griping too long about.
As for the pieces, everything is clearly labelled which is awesome, and the instructions aren’t too hard to follow, they are all pictures though so take it with a grain of salt, but it’s pretty straight forward.
Tools required: An allen wrench (included) and a phillips head screwdriver (if you don’t have one handy, don’t panic, you can still assemble the whole thing without this, my guess is those screws are just to help it being sturdy.
As far as assembling it goes, my biggest gripe is that it’s very very very hard to get everything perfectly square, so that when you put it together, it wobbles (like when one leg of a table is shorter than the others). You put together the top half and then the bottom half, and then connect the two. In doing so it just always wobbles.
My suggestion would be not to tighten everything until you put it all together (if anything keep all the screws very loose until you’re ready). You might also want to have a second pair of hands to hold the whole thing down tightly/firmly while you screw (unfortunately I didn’t have a pair handy… ha.).
I don’t think it’s necessarily a defect in the piece, I just think it’s hard to get it perfect.
I unscrewed it and adjusted it a million times, so it’s really not noticeable that they wobble now, but I’m very nit-picky =).
Anyways, I intend to use these as a make shift sort of dresser until I can actually afford a real dresser. They won’t really fit jeans or anything big, but should be great for socks, undies, t-shirts and things of the like.
OH and someone said the top made a good work surface, I disagree. The top is made from the same fabric wrapped cardboard as the boxes are, and is only attached to the frame via some poorly placed Velcro pieces. I thought it would be like a piece of solid plastic (looks like it in the pictures), but it’s not. But the metal underneath is sturdy enough that you could probably add something harder as a surface if you wanted to!