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4.5
The Somerset lateral file cabinet looks really nice and appears to be quite sturdy. The instructions could be a bit clearer. Everything goes together pretty smoothly until you get to the drawers which are tricky. A previous reviewer noted that you have to force them past the stops by pushing very hard. VERY HARD. Probably would have gone smoother and quicker with a second person but regardless at 63 I was able to figure it out and get er done!This is very beautiful, heavy, and real wood. You can't find this type of quality in furniture hardly anymore and due to that I have purchased the desk and hutch that matches it. I will be purchasing again from this company.I bought 2 desks, a cabinet and this file cabinetI had to put together an office for 2 people from scratch and decided for this furiture because of sturdiness and design.The desks have different width and does not look as expected in the office. Also, as a return for one of the desks, I ordered this file cabinet because with the measures described would fit perfect and is also advertised as matching for the set, but is shorter...The 3 Drawer Mobile File Cabinet, is perfect to fit under the deskEasy to assemble, and beautiful to look at. Sturdy with no wiggling. Yes that was what I had. Love my new office furniture!I also bought the matching desk and overhead hutch and this was my least favorite piece. In the package, I got 2 of the left side “B” pieces and not a right side “C” piece. I didn’t give customer service a chance to correct the problem because I didn’t want to wait who knows how long with disassembled pieces all over the place. I mirrored over the hole pattern and created a right side piece from the left side piece as best as I could, but certainly not as good as the factory. Wasn’t easy for the half turn latch bolt holes with the tools I own. The designers could have made the pieces symmetric to poke-yoke this problem or packing QA could use a more robust method (bar codes) to inventory the bill of materials. (Yes, I am a designer myself). I recommend anyone building furniture like this to inventory the pieces in the kit before assembling the first piece. Overall I’m happy with the 3 pieces in the set and they are a good value for the money.Directions are very well written - follow them precisely!! QR code’s to YouTube instructions are a nice helper.Directions say to not use power tools - DON’T take that advice…. You WILL need a power drill for driving screws.This is difficult and takes long to assemble. And holes could be lined up better too.Now that it is together - 4 hours later - it looks and works very nice.Not sure of pricing since we have a lot of “sweat equity” in this.Great file cabinet. Very sturdy, quality you expect with BBFIf the drawer locking capability worked like it is supposed to. this cabinet would be totally fine. The drawers are a nice big size, with both legal and regular size file folders. It looks nice in my office.I followed the instructions minutely when I set it up, including those that dealt with the protective locking mechanism. At first it seemed to work okay, but over the several months that I've had it, the bottom drawer has started opening up randomly, as though a Filing Cabinet Poltergeist was messing with me. Twice when I've been getting files from the top drawer, the bottom drawer slid silently open and the whole heavy cabinet fell onto me. I got pinched fingers and bruised shins, and items I'd on top of the cabinet (printer, some papers) fell off.Sadly, I think it's just not well designed, and unfortunately the part that's badly designed is kind of critical for the health and wellbeing of my limbs. And also my printer. Would not recommend, not even for somebody I didn't like very much.
