ClosetMaid Cubeicals 2 Cube Storage

I bought this to replace the same item I bought in December 2023 because the first one got ruined by a plumbing issue that soaked the carpeting underneath it for a long time before we noticed it. The original one was great (good condition and went together well), but this one was unbelievably bad. I am very experienced with assembling this kind of furniture (I’ve put together well over 50 cabinets and shelving units over the years). I should have returned it, but it’s big and heavy (for me these days) and I just really wanted my living room back together. This unit is mostly stabilized by short dowel pieces — 24 all together, but the holes were too small to push them into. I don’t recommend it, but I used a hammer to get the dowels in and other shenanigans to keep adding sections since you couldn’t possibly slide it together as the instructions pictured. The worst part was they tell you to put the dowels into the top and bottom pieces and then push that onto the vertical shelf dividers, but most of the dowel length needs to go down into the too-small holes in the dividers so when I tried putting enough force on the outside to get it on, instead of the dowels going down into the holes in the dividers, one of them pushed a big hole up through the outside of the shelf. If you build this, pound the dowels into the dividers first, then put the top and bottom on. That will now be the bottom of the unit, though I had intended it to be the top as it had fewer obvious flaws (scuffs and nicks of color missing) than the other piece. All in all, totally disgusted. If you have another option, get that instead.