Modus Solid Wood 9-Drawer Dresser - Hearst Collection in Sahara Tan | Mid-Century Modern Bedroom Storage for Clothes & Accessories

This isn't my first time buying furniture, and I remember back in the 1980s when I'd go to a local store like "The Hub", or "Hecht's" that you'd get real wood furniture, solid - weighed a ton and made in America. I bought a very 1980s platform bed and dresser out of solid teak that cost me about $600: that's about $1600 today. By itself, this dresser was $1142.I just spent a good amount of money on a dresser that looks nice, but is not solid hardwood. It arrived with some obvious blemishes - but it also arrived filthy. I don't mean dusty, I mean it was filthy.Fedex provides the freight service and - just a warning - they only deliver to your driveway. They won't bring it in the house, and they certainly won't take it up a flight of stairs. So, you see the fun drama of two senior citizens dismantling a large dresser and taking it in by themselves. What could say "customer care" better than risking someone getting crushed by a 150 lb dresser falling down a staircase?After the joy of unboxing and cleaning, I was able to put it into place. The rails are nice (just super super greasy) and it takes two people to line up the drawers to put them back in. The part you want to know is "how did you get the drawers out?"My brilliant husband figured it out: there's a skinny toggle that looks like the "minute hand" on a watch. On the left side, press it down, and on the right side, push it up - then pull the drawer out. Some drawers were reversed and we don't know why.I was luckier than many others who've reviewed this. While the box was heavily damaged during shipment, the dresser itself had minor damage - but it shouldn't have any. The finish is rough in spots, and rather than looking like quality furniture - it looks like cheap knock down furniture we used to buy at "cheap furniture stores" back in the 1990s: the kind where you'd rent a truck and they'd load it up from the dock in a box.In fairness, a lot of what we bought like that in the 80s and 90s was plastic framed, and this is a wood structure. The drawers, while they look nice from the front - are not well joined. Curiously, the drawer base is nailed in and the nail heads frequently show through because they were either too long or someone used a power hammer to "speed it up".Don't speed up adding a base to a drawer. The box joints are not dovetailed, which suggests this was simply affixed together. Not proper for good furniture - this suggests its dowel joints instead, which is again the mark of inexpensive furniture. In this type of construction, you'd anticipate a ridge around the four parts of the box into which the base would slide, and then the back would be mounted onto its dowels and either glued or cam lock and nut.