Prepac Elite 16" Narrow Cabinet in Black

I bought this to hide away some taller items in my studio apartment, which doesn't have a closet. I was a little skeptical of the price because this is particle board, but the quality seems to be there. The boards themselves are 5/8" thick and the hardware is sturdy--nearly all metal with some beefy wood dowel pins to help out. Everything came well-packed in foam with no damage. Assembly took about an hour and the instructions are very easy to follow. The only thing the instructions don't tell you is that the horizontal boards can only fit one way, which isn't super obvious until you spend 15 minutes struggling to install them the wrong way like I did, so try rotating them if it seems difficult to fit them into the pegs. Also, this thing is heavy. My UPS guy is a total bro and carried it up 3 flights of stairs to my door, but expect to receive an ~80 pound 6+ foot box and plan accordingly. It's not super difficult to maneuver once assembled although I do wish it had casters. Oh well. Overall, this is great quality for what it is and matches the description perfectly. I'll definitely buy a second one when I can afford it. I didn't need to deal with the manufacturer at all but the quality of the instructions and material on their website make me optimistic about their customer service.

This was easy to assemble and very sturdy. Looks great in my small laundry room. Would recommend to others.

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I really wanted a black storage cabinet, but after realizing that all of the black storage cabinets available are flimsy, I decided to get this one and paint it black. This is one sturdy cabinet! It arrived in a big, heavy package, and I had to help the UPS driver get it off her truck. Rather than try to carry it up my driveway, I took a boxcutter and opened it right on my lawn, then carried it up a few pieces at a time. The directions are super-easy to follow, and I decided that it would be fun to complicate things by building a platform on wheels, upon which to erect this mighty cabinet. My husband cussed up a storm, but successfully completed both the platform on wheels and the cabinet assembly in a single afternoon. I would have done it myself, but he commandeered the project under the guise of "helping". Works every time! Seriously, I don't know how we ever managed to live without this cabinet. It holds a ton of stuff, and it looks fantastic! In fact, it looked great in white, with its nice modern handles, so I decided to hold off on the painting. I did, however, add two more shelves, just because I could. This was incredibly easy - I took one of the shelves to my local big orange box store, and had the guy in lumber cut me two more pieces of the shelf material to the exact same size. This was so cheap I thought they must have miscalculated the price, and I got to keep the uncut leftover piece for my next project, a linen closet with adjustable shelves. I bought a little package of shelf peg thingies there, too. Now, the holes for the shelf peg thingies don't go all the way up and down inside the entire cabinet, which means you are slightly limited in your shelf placement, unless you decide to drill more holes. However, it worked out perfectly for me -- I moved both of the movable shelves and their pegs to the highest position, and added my extra shelves and pegs to the lowest positions, which created two extra "mini-shelves" tall enough for cans of soup, boxes of jello, skillets, etc. The four "tall" shelves are plenty tall enough for everything tall, or everything medium, stacked double. Plus, the very top of the cabinet is like another shelf. The total amount of storage space is stunning. I want to get at least three more of these, for the garage, the laundry room, and the extra bedroom where we put assorted items we don't know where to put. "A place for everything, and everything in its place" might actually happen! I can't think of a single negative about this cabinet. If I had to come up with something negative, just so you know it's a real review from a genuine human cabinet consumer, not some fake one written by someone getting paid one-half an American dollar to write fake reviews, it would be that the packaging material is unbelievably sturdy. Seriously, I went through like four blades on my husband's boxcutter thingie, cutting up the packaging material so I could bag it up for the trash guys. In hindsight, I should have removed the shipping labels and put it out by the curb with a big sign, "Hey kids! FREE Clubhouse! FREE Fort!"

FUNCTIONALITY: This is a wonderful addition to my kitchen. It's just what I needed to increase storage and counter space, and to fill an awkward corner leading to the basement stairs. Now I have a very convenient place for my taller kitchen appliances (blender, ice cream maker) and a permanent, easily accessible location to store my big crock pot. I'm going to cut a 36 x 24 silicone mat to fit across that section of counter and the top of this piece, and that's where my toaster oven and toaster will live! This piece of furniture has allowed me to make huge improvements in my kitchen, and I couldn't be happier about that! PACKAGING: This was VERY thoughtfully packed. Every piece was kept safe, but the overall package was surprisingly streamlined and small. Best of all, the styrofoam inserts were shrink wrapped in plastic!!!! No nightmare snow storm of static cling styro flakes!!! THANK YOU, PREPAC!!! ASSEMBLY: This is another place this item really shines. The directions were a very thorough BOOKLET instead of just a one-page with diagrams and few/no words. However, the directions didn't even NEED to be that thorough, because this piece was so skillfully designed for simplicity and ease of assembly. Once I did a quick layout of all the parts and inventoried them against the list (everything was there and in great condition!), it took hardly any time at all to put together with just a few turns of a screwdriver. All holes were pre-drilled to the perfect diameter and aligned flawlessly. The innovative hardware they provided cut down on labor in a major way while still constructing a sturdy piece. The only thing that gave me pause was the door hinges (I had never installed this type before), but the directions even went into a lot of detail with several diagrams about the hinges, and even about how to adjust them to get the door to lay EXACTLY how you want it to. SUMMARY: For this price, this is a wonderful item. Clean and beautiful finished product. Easy to assemble with only one person. I am SO impressed with PREPAC. Sincerely, other flat pack furniture companies should be TAKING NOTES HERE. PREPAC is going to be the first place I look any time I need flat pack furniture like this again. 6 out of 5 stars!!!