Leslie Dame Mission Style Multimedia Storage Cabinet with Sliding Glass Doors, Espresso

At almost 50, I decided that maybe we were beyond the press board and paper backing of so many of the crappy DIY pieces of furniture I've had over the years. After several hours of research (on and off of Amazon for reviews) we settled on this piece and we're VERY happy with the decision. This was super easy to put together, even with the very minimal instructions. Take your time, lay everything out and have a second person. We put this together in just under 90 mins from opening of the packaging to placing the shelves. PROS: good value for the price. This is not your typical DIY particle board crap. This is real, heavy wood with a nice thick finish. Hardware is solid. Finish is consistent, no chips or scratches. Well packaged and no damage sustained during shipping. If you've assembled any furniture previously, this actually ends up being rather intuitive once you have everything laid out. Doors are easily adjusted to level and wheels roll smoothly.CONS: nothing significant enough to warrant less than 5 stars overall. However.... if you are looking for a budget piece, this is not it - you do get what you pay for. There are no extra pieces of hardware so be careful. The wheel and pin pieces that fix the doors in place are only predrilled for two of the 4 holes on each, but this is enough to secure them. Would have been nice to see all 4 predrilled as it would have been more consistent with the overall quality. This unit does have a slight wobble when bumped, even when completely full of movies. It would be nice if a quality wall anchor was included. The wood dowels would have been better if wood glue had been included or if they were preglued (requiring a quick dip in water) for added stability over the long term.Overall we highly recommend this shelf unit. It's beautiful and looks like it was purchased at a high-end furniture store for twice what we paid. I could see potentially adding opaque or patterned vinyl window film to up the wow-factor.

This unit came extremely well packed and had no significant issues during assembly. Once assembled, it looks great and holds a ton of DVDs. I didn't want to take a full star off, but I try to limit 5 star reviews to things that I just can't think of ways to improve. This unit has a few minor things that kept it from a pure 5-star, which I'll cover at the end.First, as I've seen in reviews with some of the smaller units, don't panic when the shipping boxes come all torn up. The outer boxes are just the armor for the inner boxes which are well protected, along with the contents. It comes in 2 boxes, and they are both pretty heavy, so plan to have help or use a small hand truck to move them from your front door to the place where you will be assembling. Both outer boxes were torn and beaten, but the inner boxes were in great shape, along with the contents.Assembly took a little over 2 hours, but I did it by myself. A second person could probably take about 45 minutes off that time. If you are familiar with assembling these types of units, a single person can handle it as long as you are careful. I found that reversing steps 1 and 2 of the assembly process made the whole thing come together quite well. This was the 3 door version, so that means putting the dowels into the base first, then connecting a cross brace to each vertical panel, and installing them on the base one at a time from left to right. Once the 4 vertical panels are in, you slide the back panels into place via the slots provided, then drop the top piece onto the whole assembly. After that, it's just a matter of attaching the glass panes and hardware to the doors and popping them into place. The doors travel very smoothly (almost too smoothly) on the tracks. This is composite wood product, so avoid power tools and forcing things. If something doesn't go in easily, make sure everything is aligned and apply steady pressure.Once complete, installing the shelves and loading them up is quite easy. Regular DVDs/Blu-Rays and the newer box sets fit with no problems. A few older box sets which are slightly deeper caught on the sliding doors and can't be stored unless you lay them on their spine, which significantly reduces the number you can store on a single shelf. The unit comes with about 27 shelves. My unit is almost completely full and I have 9 shelves left over. I did not use this for CDs because I already have them in another unit, but if this was for CDs, I could see using all the provided shelves.I purchased the black unit, and the finish is great. There is a wood grain look, but it is quite subtle, so the unit goes well with some other more modern black furnishings.All told, I am very happy with this unit, and purchased one of the 2 door units to handle the rest of my DVD collection. The reasons I removed one star from the rating (technically a half-star) is because:1) You get the exact number of each piece of required hardware, with the exception of the cam locks. You get one extra of those (probably because most of them are preinstalled on the wood pieces). The hardware pieces are very specific to this product, so if anything is missing or breaks, you're stuck waiting to see if you can get it from the vendor. (Note: this is not a ding on the vendor. I was not missing any pieces and did not have to contact them) The screws that hold the glass panes to the doors are extremely small and can easily get lost during assembly. A very small Phillips screwdriver is provided for those screws, but you need to use it carefully to avoid stripping the screw heads. Extra parts are just good customer service from decades of experience building pieces like this one.2) The back panels are a very tight fit into the slots provided, and any slight misalignment of the pieces makes it very difficult to get them in place. One of them just wouldn't seat on mine, so that panel was slightly bowed when I was done.3) The unit is front-heavy when empty. A slightly deeper base or some form of weighting on the back would greatly help its stability on carpet. Once it is fully loaded, it is pretty stable, but is still a tipping hazard if the contents are loaded on the upper shelves without some counterweight on the lower spaces. The are no wall anchors included. I feel it would be pretty stable on non-carpeted flooring.4) It's about a quarter inch too shallow. Just a little deeper would make this unit capable of storing many of the odd sized DVD sets that are available. Instead, those have to be stored on top or somewhere else.5) The instructions are of the picture-only type, and the wood panels did not have identifying stickers to help ensure you are matching the pieces with the labels in the instructions. It's kind of intuitive if you have experience building furniture, but beginners might struggle figuring out which parts are being referenced on some of the steps.Like I said before, these are all minor issues - except the tipping issue if you have young kids around them. Since my unit is almost completely full, mine is pretty stable. I was happy enough to buy a second, smaller version, which I will also review. Both come in at the same rating, and I'm happy to recommend them both, as long as you are willing to deal with the challenges of building something this large.Feel free to comment if you feel I've left something out or you have questions about something I didn't cover.

I love this cabinet, it is gorgeous and sturdy, and the perfect shade (espresso) to match my other living room furniture. The instructions were easy to follow with some common sense; however, I would have liked to have had the bags labeled and some written words with the pictures. Also, would have like all four screw holes on the wheels to have been drilled instead of only two; but, the two are sufficient with the locking pieces on the top. All wood pcs are stained on all sides, front, back, and all edges; the base board is very thick and has no problem support the cabinet. All shelves are moveable and come with plenty of pegs for placement. The most laborious area of installation for me was the backing, had a hard time pushing it down the grooves after the cabinet was assembled. I feel the glass should be better secured and may pursue gluing to the frame or some other method of securement. I was able to get 24 dvd,s on a shelf, or 29 blu-rays on a shelf. In the pics you can see the metal tracts on the top and bottom, that is not a flaw in the wood. The cabinet stands about 5ft tall and 4ft + wide. Overall, I love the cabinet and would order again.

So disappointing! Beautiful cabinet, base very sturdy, not hard to put together. However the Doors do not slide and try to come off track. We sprayed with WD40 and this has helped but if you use the handles to slide the door it immediately hangs up. The wheels are totally extended, the snap knobs in place but it doesn’t stay in the track. Looks good just don’t try to open the doors.