OneSpace Essentials 5-Tier Bookshelf, White

When it's all together, it's a pretty good shelf. All parts were included and spare parts provided, which good one them, not everyone does that. I'm giving an extra star for that.I was able to construct it ok without too much difficulty, but I could see how it would be hard for some to get it together as putting one shelf on the others along with all the backing pieces requires some serious balancing.

The media could not be loaded.  First, it’s weird that the reviews here are for various products. 3,000k reviews and it seems they are all for a “desk”? So did the company just “edit” the desk listing and list the shelf I purchased so there were a ton of reviews?Now, $200 for a shelf on Amazon and I would hope the thing would be good quality. While the finished product turned out nice, the construction decisions and adhesive on the product left much to be desired for the price.I’m pretty handy and having been assembling a TON of furniture lately after a recent move. This shelf took roughly 3 hours to assemble.If you like building models, or hate having free time on the weekends then this is the shelf for you!First a board had a piece of packing tape across it and I needed my wife to peel it off with her nails. Then I set about the task of using Goo-Gone for the next 30 minutes to get all the tape residue off the premium shelf I just purchased.Then when I sat down to assemble it, I noticed ANOTHER sticker slapped right on the side piece saying “call us before returning” which seemed redundant since they included a large piece of paper with this exact message NOT glued onto my nice wood shelf.Now the ingenious thing about this sticker is that it was printed on cheap paper, so it literally tears apart in every direction the moment it touches your fingers.I had to use a hair dryer and popsicle stick to slowly pry the thing off and 20 minutes later had another nice gooey spot I had to clean up with Goo-Gone. (Amazon should make Goo-Gone a “recommended item” with this purchase.)So finally, after roughly an hour of cleaning up the product it was ready to assemble.For whatever reason they used these plastic cam holes for the cam bolts to screw into. They appear to be threaded, but since the cam bolts are metal they simply go in however they please. So forget about using an electric screwdriver and just tightening down by hand at the end. You’ll be doing this all by hand.And hopefully you have the perfect eye for telling when a 1” post is perfectly 90 degrees because these things go in at every kind of angle but up. You will constantly need to back them out, apply pressure and re-screw it to get them even close to where they should be.Then comes the step where you need to slide the back panels in. Make note your center shelf has an orientation even though it's not listed in the instructions. It needs to be flush with the front of the shelf in order to properly install the back panels.Now comes the task of lowering on the other side panel that needs to line up properly with 9 cam bolts. And god help you if you’re not a furniture building robot and any of those cam bolts are slightly off.Once the side panel is secure, bend the back panels ever so slightly to pop them into the groove on the other side, because there’s no humanly way you managed to do the 9 cam bolts and 5 loose panels wobbling around on the back.After it was together I tipped it up and it had a lot of wobble for a $200 shelf. Adding the slide in shelves and back bracers helped, but with every single cam tightened down it should not have felt so loose and cheap.They include tape for the back panels but they still ride up off the shelves just a bit and look cheap and loose. I hammered a finishing nail into the middle of each one and that helped. (These are not included, they were my own nails.)Overall I would never buy this shelf again.It looks nice. But has a lot of problems for a $200 purchase from little nicks on the edges to straight up glue on the wood. Honestly you’ll get roughly the same result from a $50 shelf on Amazon, the main difference being this isn’t pure laminate.I hated the build, I was annoyed by all the glue and sticky blobs I found on it and overall the shelf just didn’t deliver for the price.There’s no way I was going to attempt to send it back so I have finished it up as nicely as I can and will learn to live with it I guess.TL:DR; Fool me once...

Very hard to put together, especially the backboard. Need two people to put together. When done it is beautiful

Holes were not drilled in shelves, couldn't get ahold of the company, Amazon had to send me another one, it was the same, I had to drill the holes myself. Amazon arranged to have the other one picked up, it was 60 pounds. Its actually really nice once I got through the headache of trying to get it.

I love the quality, but 2 of the long boards were cracked in half when taking it out of box.

The bookcase looks very good once assembled. We'll know more once the spouse fills it up with books.Luckily, the bookcase was packaged very well because the box was showing a lot of damage when it arrived and things were heard moving around inside. But the pieces inside were well protected and had no damage.The assembling instructions left a lot to be desired as they were mostly drawings with very little explanation. This caused about a half hour of confusion and trying to fit a round peg in a square hole situation. That was figuratively, not literally. Because of the lack of good instructions, we were trying to put the top panel on the bottom. When we figured it out, things went more smoothly.If you purchase this bookcase, spend some time studying the instructions, especially looking for what isn't said about the drawings.

First the positive: the directions were clear and well-written in images. It is important to follow the order of the directions, especially when installing the hardboard for the back.Now the negatives: the screwdriver provided is worthless. It snapped in half on me halfway through. Use your own sturdy screwdriver. Not all of the screw-tite pieces work as well as they might. They can only be tightened so far. The backing boards were a pain. While I appreciate the hardboard, sturdy cardboard is much easier. Getting them to slot in snugly took some convincing. Even so, it is a tight, tight fit.All-in-all, worth the money if you're not looking for a showcase piece. This will work well in our basement.

When I got mine, I agonized over the Ikea-esque instructions for almost two hours making sure everything was exactly how it needed to be. Honestly, I don't think the parts are sized properly because after all was said and done, I still ended up with massive gaps in the final product, where it should have been pressure fit together (making the shelves unstable and likelier to fall). I ended up having to go back and seal these up with duct tape and gorilla glue, which makes it much more serviceable. So just be aware: it's decent for the price, but it may not all be sized right when assembling.