Core Products, Shelving & Storage Collection - 3 Shelf Narrow Slatted Storage Unit

It looks like the picture, but its far from easy to out together and it ends up not being straight. Even if you were a carpenter, you would struggle with this, because the wood is cheap and you would end up wanting to cut it to get it straight and in line, you would also then have lots of holes if you were a perfectionist, because to get it straight you need to undo and redo-the wood just isn't what it needs to be. But it looks like the picture and if you are ok using it for a cheap purpose and not for fancy show, it doesn't matter. You also wouldn't send it back, because by the time you've worked out its not right, its all open in pieces and returning it would be a nightmare. I'm using it in my office to store things and really don't care its a bit wonky, you could call it my workmanship, but I would challenge you to give it a go and get it right first time, or face having lots of holes.

I used it as a plant stand in the conservatory, just the job!!!

Painfully slow delivery for a pile of badly packaged, cheap flimsy heavily knotted wood!!I needed it for under stairs storage but for a piece on show furniture like they advertise be prepared for splinters!!The quality is absolutely shocking!!!DO NOT BUY IT!!

This shelf unit is good value. Other reviewers suggest that drilling is needed, but on the one I received, the uprights were pre-drilled and so all that is required for assembly is a screwdriver (preferably an electric one). It was straiughtforward to put together, although you need to be slightly careful to line up the screws in the centre of the wood they are going into to avoid splitting. At the end it looks great and is fairly sturdy, although I don't think it would hold up if it was filled with very heavy books as the wood is thin.

Would be 5 stars if the shelves had been pre-drilled as other reviewers have commented BUT if you know that's the situation and you have a drill they're dead easy to assemble. If you don't have a drill, the wood will split, so think if that's important to you. The wood is actually better than I expected - all straight and well finished. It would probably have cost a lot more just to buy the timber & make from scratch - and a lot more time!!.These are now installed in my shed and are perfect for that - I've screwed them to the shed frame for extra stability.

Pre-drilled holes in the uprights and no need for them in the shelves as long as you're using an electric screwdriver.

I would really have given this 5 stars if only the shelves had pre-drilled holes in them. If you haven't got a drill, or got access to one, you would end up unable to assemble this. I don't know why on earth they haven't drilled them when nowadays people expect to be able to buy an easy to assemble set of shelves or whatever and put it together using nothing more than a screwdriver. Luckily I have a drill, but not many women do.

Unfortunately the screw holes were not pre-drilled but that wasn't a big problem, just slowed assembly down a bit