This definitely looks like particleboard, but the drawers move smoothly, it's an interesting color, and it's a good size.
It's not fully assembled – – you have to put the handles on, but that's easy.
We did have one problem: there was a paper stuck on to say that handles were inside the lower drawer, but when you pulled the paper off, it misaligned the top drawer so then it was very difficult to open that drawer.
Once we realize the problem, we just had to reposition it so that the slide was on top of the wheel and then it worked fine again. But it seemed like a poor packaging decision for an otherwise good nightstand.