The media towers themselves are very sturdy, and were very easy to assemble. However, the color is not close to what is depicted in the advertisement. The shelves are much darker! So if you are trying to match the pictures in the description with something in your current home (like we were trying to do with our office desks), I would not recommend this product. If having a specific color match does not really matter to you, then these are great shelves for the price. We debated on sending these back, but decided that for the price, and hassle to send/return it was worth it to keep them and covering them with baskets so that people will not notice the color difference as much.