Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

After having assembled this pantry, I have to say that my wife and I are extremely happy with it. Given that we had to put it together, I have to say that under that condition, the end result was the pantry seems well designed and the parts fit like a glove. This in turn led to a finished product that yields the sense that it was custom made versus something that came in pieces and had to be assembled. For example, the assembled pantry is very heavy, so it's not a thin paneled cabinet that would seem like it came from a thrift shop. But then again, at this price point, you'd expect it to be a bit more on the higher end of design and manufacturing. In my view, I'd say it met this expectation and I'm anxious to someday get it's matching "island" that I saw on Amazon. But I'll have to save my pennies for that one.....the island is even more expensive! Functionally, I have no complaints on the two cabinet spaces. It comes with two shelves for the top and bottom, but each cabinet space has multiple holes for the shelf pins, to move the shelves up or down, so it's very versatile in this respect. The drawer is tiny, but I expected that. It's just as it appears in the picture. It is functional and slides out with a sort of safety position to keep the drawer from dropping on your toes. It's not a tall drawer obviously, but we use it for things like our coffee filters and kitchen scale. Are there any complaints? Well, only one for us. I believe several other reviews complained about the same thing and that was the magnet closure mechanisms for each door. Its a simple magnet/plate type closure mechanism you see at hardware stores for this purpose, but it's a smaller version and I guess for this size and weight of door, it's a bit on the small side to keep the doors shut all the time. So we just went out and bought a larger magnet mechanism, for the doors that gave us a problem. The ones that didn't are doing fine with the supplied magnets. But this wasn't enough for me to knock it down from 5 stars. I've bought many "construction required" type cabinets in my life and this type of thing is common because I think the closing mechanism is dependent on some other factors such as how level the cabinet is sitting and how precisely it was put together. There's always going to be some slight variations that lead to torquing somewhere, and I just think the door closure design tolerance was designed too tight. A couple other things you may want to know. It does come with 4 leveling type feet. The feet are about an inch in diameter and they do screw in to adjust height. Also, in the picture, it appears that there are things place on top of the cabinet. This gives the impression that the top is flat. The top is actually not one solid flat area. If you were to look at the top, you'd basically see an unfinished section with wood braces for rigidity. The top was never intended to be finished and flat to act as a storage platform, but you can store things up there. I just wanted to mention this in the event you were planning to put this next to a stairway, or below an upper floor where you can physically see the top, or you were planning to use the entire top area to place something there of that dimension. Because the braces take up portions of the corner, there's slightly less available area to place things than you might think. Hope this review helps you decide. We're pleased with our purchase. Hopefully you will be too!