Linon Home Decor Products Corinne Six Drawer Storage, Natural Rolling Cart

very nice set of drawers for the price. I wanted something that was mainly all solid wood and this was just right as it costs the same as mdf/particle board others. it took a bit to assemble it but once assembled it looks very nice. the finish is nice and smooth, I like the natural look but it could be easily painted if I wanted to. The caster wheels roll smoothly and the drawers slide out smooth as well, but pull to far and the drawer will fall out. Now the drawers are not very large so think about what you are going to store in them prior to ordering. I use it for office/art supplies, so pens/pencils, markers, etc it works great for all of that. cabinet is very sturdy as well. I would of built one myself as I am a wood worker but time is not there to add another project. when you do assemble make sure you use some Tight bond 3 glue on every joint and screw, everything will be solid and no worry of anything falling apart. I glue everything together that I buy that is wood no matter what it is, overall would def recommend. might buy the larger one down the road to for my office space

For those who said this takes 4 hours to assemble, I say this: You must not have a visual mind. So that being said, if you are reading this and you are not very good at picturing things in your mind, then this may take you 4 hours indeed. Or if you do not have a drill, it will take considerably longer. If you are a visual person and are generally good at assembling things, this will take 45 minutes to an hour with a drill, hammer, screwdriver, and preferably a mallet for the plastic pieces. Note: I found the easiest way to assemble the shelves was to stand them up like Stonehenge, with the front of the drawer facing up. Then, using a drill to slowly attach one screw on one side, and then another on the other side. It is best to alternate to avoid cracking the wood, as it is very soft wood. This is not a heavy duty piece of furniture; it is enough to hold craft supplies but not something for heavy tools or outdoor abuse. I do think this is overpriced. It is cheap wood, and assembly is a bit silly. They have all the screws and things mixed in one bag, which I've never before seen on any furniture I've ever assembled. Note: Be sure to save some of the little nails for the drawers. I made the mistake of assembling the back first and using almost all of them for the back, when you need two nails for the bottom of each drawer.

It is real work, like the ad reads, and it looks nice. The wood grain is real. I didn't know it had to be assembled. The assembly directions were very few but were accurate. The assembly is time consuming but goes smoothly. The directions said not to use a power screwdriver. I agree, it's easy to strip out the screw threads and then you are in trouble. There are a lot of screws and the palm of your hand can cause a blister if to keep at it too long unless you have a little bit of help. Those screws are rough going in but they hold tight once screwed in. When assembled it is very sturdy, the drawers slide in and out extremely easy. It takes up very little space yet holds a lot, depending on your definition of a 'lot'. <smile>

This was so hard to put together, and the drawers are impossible to open and close. Not worth the money, the drawers also can just fall out if you pull too fast, which is hard not to do since they don’t slide easily. The hammering was so difficult and it’s not worth the effort for such a bad product.

1 - The wood is very soft pine, which means it splits around all the fasteners and joints, and screws strip easily in the pulpy soft wood before they pull very tight. So, treat everything very delicately. When tightening screws, feel for when they stop to avoid stripping the hole. 2 - There is one part that you may not be able to avoid splitting the wood. Where the casters go, there is a pre-drilled hold that you hammer a plastic insert into. The sizes of the hole and the insert are correct for each other, the part needs to be tight in there, but the wood is too weak and too small in that area, and so inserting the insert is likely to split the wood. The only way you could avoid that is perhaps saning or carving the inser down a little, and securing it with glue instead of friction. having the wood split here is particularly bad, because this is one of the places that bears all the weight of the fully assembled, cart, with all the drawers filled, and whatever is placed on top. Imagine a printer and 6 drawers full of paper as a worst case example. 3 - There are no pilot holes drilled for any of the screws. The wood will split all over the place without them, so bring your own drill and drill pilot holes. Make them a bit smaller than normal for #6 screws, 3/32 or even 1/16, to compensate for how soft the wood is. 4 - Glue everything. Much of the rigidity of the final shape comes from the mdf back panel. But that is only attached by tiny brad nails in the soft wood. This form of construction works itself loose quickly. Also, all the other joints are relying on too-few and too-weak wood screws. The screws themselves are ok, but the wood they are screwed into is too soft to hold the screws strongly. So all joints of any type anywhere, are weak. To compensate for that, glue EVERYTHING. Glue all wood-to-wood joints before screwing. Glue the entire perimeter of the back panel before nailing. You will want a drop cloth or a smooth floor that can be easily cleaned of spilled glue. Wood glue cleans up pretty easily with water, but not on a carpet. You end up needing so much glue in so many awkward 3-way joints (especially on the drawers). 5 - The drawers are particularly awkward and terrible to assemble, frankly missing features to facilitate assembly (thus the "incomplete" in the title). The directions actually tell you to use a square to make the shelf come out square! IE, it doesn't square itself by just tightening the parts together. But you can actually get the shelf square by carefully holding the parts tight to the MDF bottom panel while tightening the screws. It's awkward because you end up having to hold THREE loose glue-soaked parts togther (front, side, bottom) pressed all to each other so that they form a good right angle by pressing against the mdf bottom sheet which acts as the right angle reference. WHILE also needing to drill 2 pilot holes and then screw in 2 screws. Then for the rear wall of the drawer, it's just a plain board with no slots or pre-drilled holes or anything to position the board. You have to hold it in place freehand, flush with the rear ends of the sidewalls by feel, touching the mdf bottom, all just freehand like feeling the flushness with your fingers which means putting your fingers right in the glue that is squeezing out, drill pilot holes, and finally screw. Glue will get everywhere during all this, because if you want the final result to be strong, you should glue all parts before holding together, including the corner wood-to-wood joints and all along the slots for the bottom panel, so it will squeez out everywhere, including right where you need to hold parts with your hands. Have a lot of damp paper towels handy. to keep cleaning up the exterior surfaces and the work area. I have probably failed to adequately get across just how floppy and ridiculous it is trying to assemble the drawers. Once assembled they are ok, but the way the parts join provides no help along the way. If you ever thought assembling an IKEA product was a pain, you will never think so again after this. Gluing everything is a real pain, but, if you do that, it will provide the strength that the screws and nails don't. The final result will be super strong then and won't work itself looser and looser over time. It will even compensate for things like the main weight-bearing piece of wood splitting around the caster, because the end of the wood is glued to the side wall, holding the wood from splitting any further and spreading the weight so it's not all just on the two screws. This thing is worth about $25 not $71. It might be worth $71 if it were pre-assembled and WITH glue. Only get this if you just need something this exact size and want something wood instead of plastic or wire or mdf, and are willing to add your own work and materials to make it sturdy.

While it seems like a good storage unit and sturdy. A lot of screws have NO holes to go into and while a few go in no problem, others don’t want to go in and it is very frustrating. I have started using the easier screws to prescrew the hole as they seem easier. But the fact that you have to do it at all is very frustrating. It does seem sturdy though and I am looking forward to using it.

Good product. Keep by my living room chair and stores everything close at hand. Pen, pads, calculator, checkbook, etc. Finally organized.

This is an intensive drawer by drawer assembly project, do know that when you order it and borrow someone's power screw driver if you don't own one. The 'pre-drilled' and 'self-tapping' aren't and don't, even (perhaps especially) with this soft wood. It's a nice storage option for your home office or crafting set-ups if you don't have to constantly access and use the drawers with frequency. As 'quasi DIY' furniture, this is fairly standard mid-level quality and if that fits your budget and needs, then it will likely be fine. But my guess is this sort of furniture ends up in the landfills after about 5 years of use.

Putting this together was fun! A person needs a few tools and a bit of woodworking ability, but the unit went together easily in about an hour. Two things I did which weren't in the instructions were to (1) add a bead wood glue to the rabbet where the back panel sits before nailing it in, and (2) drill 3/32" pilot holes for where the various screw entered the wood. Pocket holes were already drilled for proper alignment, but a pilot hole in an adjoining piece always makes the joint stronger. Very pleased with this!

It is perfect for my art supplies so I would give it a 5 for that…. Lost points due to not having required number o f screws etc, plus one drawer doesn’t slide as well as the others

Pain in the butt to assemble. Most of the parts did not have predrilled holes so trying to line everything up required since special steps and lots of patience. Would recommend for the average person to buy. I ended up making a specialized clamping jig just to put this together. It would have been easier to just build from scratch.

The unit is just what I was looking for for my son. I am concerned that the wood used is described as "pine" It's so hard that staples don't go into the wood very easily. Coming from Brazil makes me concerned where they obtained the wood? In the instructions where they say use all the nails for the back panel - use all of only the 16 nails for that part. The rest are needed for the drawer assemblies. (Why i needed the stapler)

Quality testing on this is terrible. If you buy this, get ready for frustration. No pre drilled holes. Breaks when putting it together. Drawers do not slide smoothly. Absolute crap. Do not waste your money. Go to Ikea