Home Star Merlot Collection File Cabinet

 (5 customer reviews)

As stated in previous reviews, this cabinet is mostly easy to assemble, with the exception of the corner brackets. Impossible to screw in those corner brackets when the cabinet is assembled. Plus, the screws are very cheap screws that are not wood screws. There is a significant gap between the drawers once assembled. One of the drawers does not slide well and seems to slip off its track occasionally. The color of the cabinet is nice but the finish is not done well. I feel I need to be very careful pulling out the drawers as the cabinet just does not feel very sturdy. If you want a file cabinet that looks pretty, is fairly economical compared to other non-metal file cabinets, and won't be used often, this may still be an acceptable choice.

This is a dark Merlot color that matches easily with new furniture stains that are popular at this time. Little tricky putting together and could use a little dab of extra wood glue.

I bought this cabinet based on the two previous reviews and I am sorry I did so. I don't mean to sound insulting, but these folks need to raise their standards. It looked good to me when I first unpacked it and it was easy to assemble, except for the corner brackets, as the first reviewer stated. It was not his fault; the instructions tell you to put the corner brackets on last, which is virtually impossible. I had to take it half apart, so they were accessible enough to tighten sufficiently. It does look nice, for the price, and I was still pretty happy with it, once it was fully assembled, but then I loaded it with files. It is rickety, there is no center support between the draws and you can look between the draws and actually see the tips of the files in the bottom draw, with the draws shut. It gets worse; the draw stops only allow you to pull the draws out two-thirds of the way, so if you have a packed draw, you cannot get to the back five inches of draw without taking the...Read more