Shintenchi Kitchen Island Cart with Storage,Rolling Kitchen Island Side Table on Wheels with Worktop,Single Door Storage Cabinet and Drawer for Kitchen,Dinning Room, Black

My wife bought this for the spare bedroom for storage and it is a nice looking and sturdy piece of furniture. When you open the box, you find a lot of parts. It looks like it will take 2 or more hours to assemble. They pack extra hardware so you should have all parts. You need to supply your own Philips screwdriver. Use a real screwdriver with a comfortable handle. I wouldn't use a cordless drill because the pressboard is very soft and you can strip out the wood easily if you over tighten. Just hand tighten until you start to feel resistance then stop. Follow the instructions closely. Use the parts list and match the parts numbers to the plastic bags. Most of the hardware is common sense, but it doesn't hurt to make sure. Thumbs up to the person who wrote the instructions. Most of the parts fit perfectly and is easy to put together. The only tricky part are the door hinges. First, there are four screw holes on each hinge that attach to the cabinet, but there are only two holes in the cabinet for each hinge. You need to add a third screw on the side of the top hole (the second top hole on the hinge). You can just muscle in the screw into the cabinet or you can use the awl on your swiss army knife and start a small dimple to make things easier. That third screw does the trick. You can also add the fourth screw to make it more secure. The other tricky part about hinge are the two adjustment screws. You need to loosen them enough so you can adjust the door so that the door closes upright and straight, and then you want to tighten the adjustment screws so that they stay upright the straight. That's why some reviewers say that the doors close on themselves. It's because the adjustment screws are too loose so the doors droop towards each other and they close on each other. One of the doors scrape on the cabinet when closing the chemical smell is pretty strong. Wipe the inside and let it air out if it bothers you. These are minor problems in my opinion. It took me about 90 minutes to assemble.

Cheap doesn't even begin to describe it. I honestly didn't have real high expectation for this cart considering the price compared to others, but I didn't think the quality would be as cheap and as poor as it ended up being. I assembled it myself. Wasn't too terribly hard to do. I did have a difficult time getting the doors and hinges to align. It probably took me close to two hours to assemble. Once it was fully assembled I realized how poorly it was constructed. In no way do I believe that it had anything to do with the way or in the manner that I assembled the cart. It wasn't my first trip to rodeo and not something that I was uncomfortable or unfamiliar with. The cart was very rickety. I had purchased the cart for my kitchen to place my KitchenAid mixer on. As some may know, the KitchenAid is a heavy mixer and when in use, it's quite powerful and cause a lot of vibration. There's no way this cart could have withstood that type of use. As much as I hated to do it, because it was a huge pain in the "butt", I disassembled the entire thing, reboxed it and returned it to Amazon. You know it's got to be bad to go through all of that. I can only imagine the number of people who end up keeping it because of the amount of trouble they have to go through to make a return. I sometimes think companies bank on that. That said, I did successfully return the item and was fully refunded. I do not recommend this cart under any circumstances.

It is ok for my coffee pot and espresso maker. Just the right size and the top is good looking and about an inch thick. I am not sure if is completely hard wood but it is heavy. The rest is a thin wood and the back might be a heavy cardboard or a very thin manufactured wood. I was a little disappointed in the wood. AND it is hard to put together. I had a friend who is a carpenter and another friend a person who can build rock walls 5’ high and it took them over two hours or more to put it together. Hanging the doors was the most difficult. Getting them hung so they would hang properly. I bought bed coasters to put under the wheels so it would not move. It is kitchen counter top high which is perfect. It shakes a little but the wheels help make it not shake has much. I cannot recommend it for someone who is particular about furniture.

When I first bought this kitchen island cart, I was unsure if I could assemble it myself. However, after completing it, I felt very proud, and it wasn’t as hard as I expected. The instructions were very easy to follow. I made sure to separate all the screws to avoid confusion and assembled it step by step according to the manual. The only part that was a bit tricky was attaching the doors. The two doors didn’t line up perfectly at first, and one was tilted, so I had to redo it a couple of times. But once it was done, I was really pleased with the finished product. It doesn’t look cheap at all, and the design is sleek and neat, which I love. There’s plenty of space for storage in the drawers and bottom cabinets, and it feels very sturdy. I’m really happy with both the quality and design, and the fact that I assembled it all on my own just adds to the satisfaction!

It is a nice little island. The plastic shelf holders on the inside do not fit snuggly into the holes so had to super glue them in. Took it off of the wheels because it flexed alot on the wheels and I didnt like that. You get what you paid for is the saying and hopefully this will stay together a long while.