Palladia Lateral File, Cherry

Excellent product

First, this thing is very heavy because it is double-walled. Second, it took my wife and me almost 3 hours to assemble it. We have built a lot of furniture before and we are very anal about getting the needed tools ready (you really need a low-speed, electric, handheld screwdriver), setting up a workspace, locking up the dog, laying out and inventorying all the parts (we were missing one screw), etc. And there are a lot of parts, but they are labeled and individually bagged (keep them that way until you need them -- some screws are only an 1/8" different in length, and if you use the wrong one it can go through to the finished exterior, which you don't want to do). We did all that, followed the directions precisely, and watched the video in a few spots. For the most part, it all fit together as the instructions described. Not all the edges matched perfectly, so we used a black Sharpie pen to color a few of the spots that showed, which was fine. It was really nothing major, but we are anal. At the end, we put it into position and put in the bottom drawer, then tried to put in the top drawer. It would not close and was at a bit of an angle. We swapped drawers and realized that neither drawer would fit in the top. We spent 20 minutes trying to debug what had gone wrong without any luck. After three hours of careful work and it not working and it being way, way too heavy for us throw out without another hour of breaking it down, we were pretty unhappy. So we took photos and sent them to the manufacturer to ask for help. They responded the next business day with instructions for us to adjust the drawer side rails up or down slightly, which is a methodology not in the written instructions. So we tried that and it helped, but we still could not fully close the top drawer. One side still overlapped the edge by about 1/16" of an inch. I came up with the idea to insert a very thin washer between the side rail of the drawer that was sticking and the side wall the rail mounts on. It was tricky to do, but eventually found the right two washers and got them in place and the screws back in place and tried the drawer again. It closed by the narrowest of margins...you can not slide a piece of paper in the gap now between that drawer and the side wall, but it does close. Thankfully we were patient and careful and I had the right idea and the right parts to fix the misalignment. I doubt we'd buy it again if we had known beforehand what we were going to go through. In the end, it looks pretty nice and hopefully will hold up well. But it was a ton of work, and a lot of luck for it to come together.

I bought this item to complement the matching desk I bought five years ago. The product arrives as a flat pack. It took about 3 1/2 hours to put together. The colour is a perfect match and the product is sturdy and exactly what I wanted. The front design is almost the same but comes with an additional band at the bottom of the side columns as well as at the top. The desk has the bands at the top only. I highly recommend this product. It accommodates both legal and letter size files. Such a bonus. And looks great.

Cabinet meet completly my expectations. Excellent transaction and fast delivery. Sauder's Customer service was very effective for me because I was asking for a few more screw.

This item is terrible. I put it together and besides missing screws, poor instructions and some of the wood parts being damaged it is very poor quality. The box when it came in it looked that it had been retaped a few times. Also it arrived late by a few days Not happy with this one.