Sauder Heritage Hill Lateral File, in Classic Cherry finish

And here we go again, buying another lateral file after our old one gave up from so many beatings and moves.Don’t be afraid to buy this one it will last you forever and it looks elegant and will definitely fit in any business or home environment. Plenty of space to put your files and plenty of top space to put decorations over or office stuff highly recommended thank you Sauder for an excellent quality furniture and material.

This is an excellent product with an attractive finish. The instructions were concise and easy to understand, but I was especially pleased with the precision of the fit during assembly, and the method of fastening the parts together. When complete, the parts fit perfectly without any voids or gaps, and the components were very tight and sturdy.I would suggest that assembly take place on an elevated surface; and would point out that half-way through, the assembly gets a little heavy, so a helping hand would be useful for moving the cabinet around during final assembly.This is exactly what I expected / hoped it would be; and it's a bargain.Thanks, Sauder

This is heavy and arrives in a flat box with everything un-assembled. Be prepared. I scooted this beast of a box on my entry carpet very close to the location it would be living. Spread out all of the parts until I understood what was going where - for the most part. Then I grabbed the wood glue because the cam-locks were really loose in their holes. After that, I just glued every joint possible. The instructions are okay - sometimes you have to interpret what they mean instead of what they said. The biggest and heaviest piece wasn't marked - the lower back cabinet piece. It has pre-drilled nail holes for the cardboard piece that goes above it - but there's no mention of them needing to be oriented "up"(after it's oriented correctly) when you're working on the opposite side to assemble the sides and bottom to this piece. If you mess up like I did, the nails still tap in just fine. (Hint, use needle nose pliers to hold those tiny nails while hitting with a hammer to avoid cracking a fresh manicure). The very bottom of the cabinet is not a full depth piece. This had me scratching my head, but for whatever reason, the bottom has a 4" space at the back. I guess if stuff crawls over the back of a drawer, it'll end up under the cabinet and you'll have to tip the whole cabinet to see what's hiding underneath ... While I was working on the base assembly, I popped some floor protectors on the raw press-wood edges so it'd slide and not gouge the floor if I had to move it.The drawers were a bit odd, needing the slot of the side to nestle into the slot of the drawer front before angling it upright - it takes a few tries before this is apparent. Once upright, you have to use clever elbows to hold everything in position while trying to slide the 'back' (drawer bottom) into place. Again, a dab of wood glue made me feel better. There are some flat coin-like discs that are inserted in the drawer side under the extension slide. These will adjust the drawer height once assembled. To avoid a lot of guess-work, I inserted each one with the same "3:00" orientation for the screw head part of the 'coin'. After the top drawer was stuffed with all of my crud, I needed to adjust the drawer up by an 1/8th of an inch. Before I put the drawers into place, I put the cabinet into it's final parking spot, in case it was too heavy to move by myself (56 yo female).NOTE: these drawers are NOT meant to hold any weight. Just hanging files. I put all the little junk stuff I need to store into a zip-lock baggie and then put it into a hanging file to avoid warping the bottom. The hanging files use the sides of the drawer and a strange assembly of two brackets and two rods per drawer. If you use the second hole from the back on the side-rail, the bracket and (popped off to thread easier) opposite side-rail for the back rod, and the first holes on the front of the drawer for tor the front rod, everything aligns nicely. This was one of the things that didn't make sense until it was assembled. The middle supports are loose - I suppose you could make it work for a legal size file, but I haven't tried one in there to see if my guess is correct. The upper drawer is the only one that locks. The back is unfinished so unless you want to get fancy with contact paper (it's half press-wood and half black cardboard) you may want to put it up against the wall. The rest of the cabinet is the pretty wood/veneer. I only had patience to work on this for about an hour, so it took me three tries to finish the cabinet. Allow 3 hours if you like to read, and re-read the instructions before taking the next step. Bottom line - if you assemble this carefully, you'll have great end results.

When it arrived it weighed about 110 lbs. I thought to myself it must be stout, “wrong”. All the Particle Board pieces were thick and heavy made it really hard to hold together while trying to assemble. The whole thing was Particle-Board so don’t let it fool you into thinking you bought a quality piece of furniture it’s not. All the hardware was probably the cheapest I have ever seen, especially trying to hold the large boards together while assembling. It took forever to assemble not because I didn’t know what I was doing; it was because the hardware would keep falling apart while trying to get the operation done. The instructions were pretty clear so that wasn’t a problem, getting the unsteady thing to stay together long enough to assemble the last pieces together was the problem. The last couple of boards are what is holding it together, I mean keep it from falling apart. The hardware is so cheap the thing will never be sturdy, especially when it weighs 110 lbs. The hardware must have been purchased in China at the discount store. It is absolutely the most unsteady piece of furniture I have ever purchased.I would have returned it, but I waited too long to start the assembly process to return it. The box sat around a month or so before I had the time to assemble it. I did think about, what if I had to return it, but I was confident that for the price it must be a good piece of furniture and didn’t worry about it, which was a huge mistake. The filing cabinet is truly the most unsteady cheap piece of furniture I have ever purchased.