Black Metal Entertainment Center
From AtHomeMart
This entertainment center is designed to provide ample storage for multi media items. This black entertainment center is made from powder-coated steel tube with sheet metal and steel wire. Features CD rack, magazine rack on the side and different shelves that allow you to organize your entertainment units and accesories. Easy To Assemble. Dimension: 47"W X 18"D X 66"H. The item will be shipped via ground shipping. Oversize shipping fees included. Ship out the order within 0-2 business days. Lowest price guaranteed from AtHomeMart.
- Amazon Sales Rank: #365620 in Kitchen & Housewares
- Brand: AtHomeMart
Great Product, Bad Assembly Instructions and Shipping
I really like this entertainment center. One of the main features that I like about it is that there is no backing to it, so it is easy to route electrical cables around, rather than trying to force them all into the one tiny hole that most give you, or drilling your own. Also, the bottom right shelf below the TV shelf is the perfect size for a computer tower, with some extra room on each side for something else tall if you wish. The area for the TV measures 29.5"H x 26.75"W. It's strong enough to handle our 80's era 27" television, which is very heavy, although if you do have a very heavy TV, you would do well to keep small children away from it - ours isn't exactly unstable, but a child could easily pull it over on themselves if one tried to climb it.
It requires quite a bit of assembly. The instructions are terrible - they consisted of badly hand-drawn illustrations of the parts with arrows. If you're pretty good at putting things together and interpreting even poor directions, it shouldn't be a problem, since even though the directions are bad and vague, it's not so complicated that you can't figure it out. It would be expedient to have a second person available to help with assembly, but I managed to put it together alone, and I'm not an especially strong or tall person. Also, be careful with your screwdriver and with the pieces - it wasn't extremely fragile, but if you're careless or slip badly with your screwdriver, you can scratch the black finish.
The shipping was not very good. It arrived in a reasonable amount of time, but the delivery person must have somehow hoisted it up over the wall around my back porch, and when it landed, it dented the CD rack. I didn't particularly want the CD rack and didn't plan to install it in the first place, so it was no great loss to me, but I recommend that you be home to receive the package on the date of it's delivery to avoid such carelessness by the delivery person.
Overall, the product is great, but the assembly instructions and bad shipping brought it down to four stars instead of five.
