Prepac Vasari Corner Flat Panel Plasma TV / LCD Console, Corner Floor TV Stand with 6 Compartments for Cable Management, Ideal for Living Room and Bedroom, 48”W x 22”H x 20”D, Black

I was searching for something that was deep enough and supported the weight of my 25” Sony Trinitron CRT to set up a retro gaming system for my kids. This one met the dimension requirement and claims to support up to 175 lbs. This TV is maybe 70-80 pounds tops and I’m not worried at all as it feels quite sturdy.My one complaint is that you have to pay very close attention to the orientation of the pieces in the instructions. The drawings are almost like an inverse of the product where the shaded sides are the unfinished sides and the non-shaded sides were the finished sides. I kept having to do mental gymnastics to keep it straight in my head. However, as long as you’re paying attention, the directions were easy to follow and I was able assemble this by myself.

Let me preface by saying I am a female who had a 20 month in the room "helping" as I tried to put this together. (I was trying to surprise my hubby). All I needed was a phillips screwdriver and a hammer. This puts together rather easily and looks very nice. It is currently holding a 65" tv and does so very nicely. The tv is brand new so it is a thinner tv and not a huge, heavy bulky one that might've been 5+ years ago.The instructions are great and easy to understand. The problem lies in the parts supplied. The booklet gives every part a letter/number (ie C5). Unfortunately, none of the pieces come labeled. So you are stuck looking at the picture and then looking a the pieces, counting how many holes, what size, etc trying to determine if you have the right part. That being said, keep in mind which way the tv will be facing when it is all done. Had I done this, I would have saved myself the 2nd and 3rd attempt to get it right.All in all it took me 75 min to get it together. Someone with less distractions, and who can visualize better than I did will get this done in under 30 though.The unit itself is very nice and looks like I would have paid more for it. The 65" on top of it does not look awkward, like the stand is too small which is what I was worried about. The TV extends only about 3-4 inches off each side. The compartments are a nice organizing feature but be aware that the side ones are small and probably only meant for blu-ray/dvds. I tried to fit gaming consoles in there and only a Wii would fit. They will fit in the two middle ones though which have ample room.

The TV is on it, and it looks great. Now. Assembly, however, was ugly. I think the main problem was that the instructions did not really match what we found in the box. None of the parts were labeled with the codes in the instructions, and none of the "Fronts" were pointed out, so that assembly could go smoothly.This job fell to my two grown sons on Christmas Eve. One of them is an engineer, and both have experience with assembling furniture. I supervised, which initially consisted of telling them to first read the instructions and count everything. One of them finally read the instructions after the first of three mis-assemblys. There was cursing involved at several points, which was most unlike these young men.Assembly required a bit more tools than the instructions stated. Two screwdrivers, a hammer, a pair of pliers, a utility knife, a damp cloth, and a vacuum cleaner. The only thing not included in the box, and absolutely needed if you plan to put this on a wooden floor is some sort of feet or gliders for the bottom of the bookcase. Fortunately this was not my first rodeo, and I had all the tools,as well as some felt feet, in my toolbox.Once we got organized and I took over the more mundane parts of the assembly (nagging, cleaning and disposing of garbage), assembly proceeded apace, though the thing was almost totally together when my "boys" discovered that the two ends of the bookcase had been put on backwards. (Remember what I said about no markings of front or back.) There was more cursing by the engineer when he discovered this and did a work-around to avoid having to take the whole thing apart again.Then, once it was put together, with the backs nailed on and front pieces covering up the raw edges, I discovered that I could not get my TV's external speakers into the very narrow openings for the top shelf: 6 inches. I ended up removing the back panels and inserting the speakers from the back. I didn't call my sons back because there had already been enough cursing.The total man-hours dedicated to putting this together: 6. Plus the 2 woman-hours.By the way, the front opening for the bottom shelves is 8.5 inches. The total height of the top shelves is 8.5 inches and the bottom shelf is 9 inches.Like I said, all is good now. My 55" Roku TV fits on it. I would not try anything bigger than that. And this shelving unit both looks better and takes up less room than the jury-rigged bookcase I had been using.