Sauder Heritage Hill Open Library

This bookcase would be great if the manufacturer had included assemble hardware adequate for the weight of the shelves. The assembly directions were followed to the letter, however the weight of the top decorative piece was so great it ripped the connecting screws which are plastic from the sides sending the topper crashing down on the shelves starting a chain reaction of fallin shelves all the way to the bottom. The damage, amazingly, can be repaired and we used metal shelving brackets to assemble the bookcase. We would not purchase any of the other pieces in the collection.

Took me a couple hours to put this together but when completed it looked very nice. You would have to look pretty hard to recognize that it is not solid wood. Going to add at least one more unit as they are made to connect together.

BTW, I expect the second one will be much easier to put together now I have the hang of it.

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Assmebly was real painful, Looks good after assembly. Neat product but on the expensive side. I bought 3 different furniture products the same day and honestly i do not think i will buy furniture again online

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Found the best price on Amazon with free shipping. Arrived on time and the packaging was well done so I had no damage. Assembly went well considering I am not skilled at this sort of thing. Looks great in the office/den in our home. I will order a second unit as they can be attached and look like one continuous unit.

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The finished result after putting together this cherry colored book shelf is a beautiful piece of furniture, but it's so frustrating to assemble, you might throw it out the window before you get it completed. It arrived well packaged, without any damage done in shipping to the boards. Upon first glance, it appears simple enough to put together. But it actually requires a lot of very precise measuring and drilling. As other reviewers mentioned, the molding on the shelves doesn't appear to fit properly. Even in the included directions it mentions that the molding will have gaps in it, and you're supposed to affix the boards with equal gaps on each side. It seems odd that they wouldn't make the molding fit from end to end.

After literally hours of working on putting this bookcase together, when we had it all done and set it up, it looked great. The color was the perfect cherry color, matching all my real cherry wood furniture. It comes with a cherry wood colored marker, perfect for touching up any dings you might get in the boards. We used this marker to color in the small gaps between the molding that stood out because the lighter compressed wood from the inside shown through. After coloring these tiny gaps, the shelf looked perfect. The bookcase holds weight very well. I've got everything from large heavy books to figurines on these. Even with lots of weight on one side and very little on the other, I've had no issues with shelves tilting, breaking or falling over. The bookcase stands upright on carpeting very well, and doesn't lean. It's a beautiful, well priced and sturdy bookshelf, every bit worth 5 stars. But the assembly process is so tedious and frustrating, it causes it to lose one star in rating. If everything isn't measured or drilled perfectly, it won't look right or go together correctly. If you're willing to deal with a long assembly process, your results will be a beautiful bookshelf that will hold up to a lot of use.

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