homestylesGeneral Line Mobile Kitchen Cart, FURNITURE, Natural

I have a very small farmhouse kitchen. This is perfect next to my stove. I have my pots and pans and 3 cookie sheets in this along with a bread pan and a round cake pan. It stores a lot for the size. It's great to have a cutting space next to the stove to help prep. It fits perfect, it's easy to use, and easy to put together. It is a very well designed functionable piece! I do not regret this purchase at all. Very sturdy and durable! The draw is perfect for some knives and other small kitchen i tems like a can opener.

This cabinet is awesome. Beautifully crafted. Every piece fitted perfectly. The wood cabinet looks great. Fits perfectly in my kitchen. Very stylish looking. Definitely worth the 5 stars.

This is a well-made, quality kitchen island that was actually fun to assemble. A lot of the fussy assembly was already done; hinges, strike plates and drawer guides were in place. There were only 6 cam screws and cam locks to put in. (I also just put together a kitchen pantry made by another company, and the first step was to put in 60 (literally!) cam screws. Where cam screws were needed, there were plastic receivers with screw threads to put them into, so there was no problem getting them in straight (which can be a real challenge with just holes drilled in particle board in many kits). This was the most consumer-friendly piece of furniture I have ever assembled, and I've done lots over the years. I am 72, and my grandson and I had this put together in about an hour and a half. It looks great, and will provide much-needed storage and countertop space in my small kitchen.This does not have the typical oak kitchen cabinet look that is common in the U.S., and which the picture looked like it would be. It is definitely lighter. It was perfect for me, but something to note. Much of it is hardwood, but not oak.Assembly tip: In the early stages of assembly, you attach one side and middle dividers to the bottom, then slide three pieces that make up the back into grooves and attach rails to the front and back. Next, you are to attach the remaining side piece while the unit is standing upright. Do not make the mistake I did and try to shift the unit onto the side you first attached in order to attach the second side. It didn't yet have enough structural integrity and pretty much came apart. It wasn't a disaster; just had to go back a couple of steps. Keep the unit standing upright until you've attached the second side (even though tightening the bolts close to the floor is a nuisance). You'll be better off. Enjoy!

After pouring over tons of these things, I finally decided on this one. Overall I'd say it offered a perfect solution for our strangely-laid-out and open kitchen, the main problem being counter space. I will mention a few key things to keep in mind, just in case anyone else might find them useful to know in advance:-I was building this as a surprise for my girlfriend while she was out, and it is a little tricky to do alone. It's not impossible, but the first step is pretty crazy as there is no neutral position to position it as you try to assemble literally 7 pieces at once. Not impossible, but if I had another pair of hands for a couple minutes, it would have helped immensely.-The panels on the breakfast par side are very thin pieces of wood that sit inside slots in the supporting beams, i.e., these are not a surface you would ever want to put pressure one, whether that comes from pushing something into the cabinet too hard or, more likely, feet hitting them while sitting on the bar side.-Those aforementioned thin pieces of wood are loose as well, and rattle around a bit. It seems that even post-assembly, it would be pretty simple to lock them in place with some glue or even just a couple pieces of tape on the inside of the cabinets.-The instructions mention to place the the two locking wheels on the front side, and I remember reading a review somewhere for a similar product that mentioned to place them on opposite corners to help the entire thing stay still better. While I didn't do that myself, I can say that it doesn't stay perfectly still with the two locked wheels in the front. It's not rolling anywhere on its own, but with pressure in the right direction it will twist about a good 6 inches or so, so keep that in mind if you are looking to have it be more permanent and not just something you wheel out once in a while (ours is acting as a permanent kitchen island).-Every piece of furniture I have ever put together (a lot) has had stickers on the pieces. 95% of the time they come off with almost no effort. The other times you spend 5 minutes per sticker as it rips to pieces and then you are stuck scraping off residue. Annoyingly, the latter is the case with this product.-I am pretty awesome at following instructions and figuring out how to build stuff, but the instructions for this are pretty stupid. It wasn't anything I couldn't figure out, but I could see them being confusing for people that don't do this thing with any sort of frequency. The pictures of pieces are drawn to different proportions in between steps on the same page, sometimes the pieces they show actually look nothing like the ones you have, and they don't show certain details that would allow proper orientation of a piece, such as if the screw hole in piece __ was supposed to be on the top or bottom. Only by looking ahead can you decipher how it's supposed to be placed. Again, nothing tragically uninterpretable, but it's certainly not a well-done instruction manual by any stretch.EDIT (adding 2 more things)-When placing in the two pieces that act as the dividers between the cabinets and the middle shelves, (step 2, parts D and E, I think), you have to nearly break the thing to get them in place. Basically, they have wooden pegs on 2 sides, facing 90 degrees in different directions, and you need to slide them into place at the same time. So you have yo put on in, with the entire thing at like a 15 degree angle, and press on it REALLY hard to get the other one to slide and snap into place, bending out which ever piece you are scraping against. In the end it was fine, but I've never had to do anything like that to assemble anything.-The 4 screws that hold the counter top are too long and if you screw them in all the way, they will essentially burst out the sides of the unit. Because of the construction, it really doesn't matter that they aren't in all the way, but just be wary before tightening them completely.All in all, the product is serving its purpose wonderfully, and none of these things are really worth knocking a star off for, I guess. If you want, consider this 4.5.Oh, also, I ordered this from Cymax (through Amazon) and with free shipping I got it 1.5 days after I *placed* the order. That was pretty awesome.