Summary: TheDecor Therapy 28" Tall Square Accent Table is basic furniture. If you're looking for "fine furniture" or if your eye and ire are easily drawn to mere imperfections, shop onward. If you have some paraffin (even just part of an old paraffin candle), you can significantly improve the drawer's ease of use. The Nonstory: I recently "learned" I ought to have a night stand. Getting up out of bed is sometimes, for some things, just too much. I'll spare you the story. I was surprised at the difficulty of finding any "table" "stand" or other object to properly fit the available spot by my bed. After too darn much searching, I eventually discovered this Decor Therapy table, which has proven to be a near perfect fit for me. Packaging: My table arrived in a box that was a bit the worse for wear. A "no knife" warning on the box proved unnecessary (a layer of styrofoam and an additional layer of containerboard left a bit of distance for a blade to pass without harm above the tabletop) but provided a reminder of a good habit: keep any blade you use "pulling away from" the contents of any package you're opening. Merely limiting depth of penetration exposes your property to damage if anything is inadequately separated from the box flaps (don't ask how I _know_ about that...). The table was generally well packaged, with styrofoam panels, containerboard, and some thin padding material. However, nearly every "leg" or "foot" (the vertical columns) had at least one, small, often white (why white?) scuff mark. Either the "leg" and "foot" packaging could use a bit more robustness or something happened to those pieces before they were wrapped. In keeping with my observation of the box being a bit the worse for wear, a couple of the styrofoam panels clearly suffered while protecting the table, but got the job done. On the down side, innumerable small bits and shards of styrofoam covered nearly everything. Hint: Have your vacuum at the ready and use it liberally. Assembly: Assembly of the table proved straightforward and required no tool. Had the table come with no instruction, simply unpacking and examining all the pieces would have allowed quick discernment of the proper assembly process. In fact, that's what I did anyway, and then merely checked the instruction sheet for verification. Color: As others have reported, the "red" color isn't intended to be red. It's a medium brown with a somewhat red tint. I've seen a dark brown with similarly red tint called "espresso", so the "red" of this table might be described as sort of "a lighter counterpart of espresso". Imperfections: Note these descriptions are going to seem worse than the table actually looks. With the table assembled, I find I mostly just don't notice these. YMMV. Some of the "legs" and "feet" exhibit rough, slightly raised or slightly recessed areas instead of uniform shaping. The top sides of the square bolsters of the shelf assembly show unevenness of color. The "leg" and "foot" scuff marks noted above under "Packaging". One tiny dot on the top of the table lacked color. What did or didn't happen there seems unclear. If I can just find a brown marker... Slight unevenness would invite shimming for use on a hard floor (of course, many hard floors aren't quite flat anyway, so...). Stability: On medium pile carpet with a modest carpet pad beneath, I can easily inflict +-1/4" (or 1/2" total travel) wobble at the table top, but haven't found any resulting trouble. Things that aren't "tippy" of their own accord seem to stay put. Some (many?) table lamps might be poor candidates for use with this table on carpeted floors. For a hard floor, note the shimming thought under "Imperfections", above. Drawer: As received, drawer movement of my table proved OK if I kept the drawer close enough to straight and close enough to level; a bit of any angle produced jamming. Keeping the drawer "close enough" to aligned wasn't difficult, but the need to do so seemed a little inconvenient. The traditional remedy, paraffin, did its job nicely. That's "canning wax" to food folk, one type of "candle wax" to hobby folk, or whatever other moniker you may apply. I had some old "overflow" pieces from a paraffin candle and used those to rub paraffin onto the various sliding surfaces of the drawer and frame. After treatment (and cleanup of the mess I made of bits knocked off the wax shards), the drawer moves freely even if I deliberately apply small amounts of misalignment force. No more jamming. Dimensional Trivia: My table's top measures 14+1/8" square overall, but remember the decorative shaping. The flat (usable) portion measures 13+3/8" square, just in case that may matter to someone. Oh, and my home scale claims the table weighs about 14 lbs.
