Sauder Heritage Hill Lateral File, in Classic Cherry finish

I brought the Sauder Heritage File for my home office. I’m glad I did. I’m very pleased with the overall results. The cherry finish looks rich and professional. The drawers are deep and spacious, holding both letters and legal size document hanging folders without issues. It has an interlocking drawers system that prevents you from opening both drawers at once. I guess that would keep it from tipping over. I also use it to set one of my printers on. Looks great. Once fully assembled, I was very pleased. It’s solid, heavy and durable. I highly recommend it for any home workspace.

All things being equal, this cabinet is well-built and sturdy within its price category. It will serve to separate my personal from household files. I received it yesterday afternoon and the setup was completed today. To say that it was easy, no, it was not--mainly because of its weight plus it would require two people to assemble it, particularly when adding the drawers. I have put other cabinets together before so I know the drill. But since there were some reviews about the instructions, etc. I would like to clarify the process and issues. The first thing I did was to account for each part; thus, I counted up to the last screw. Then, I looked at the pictorial manual to see what was in store for me and there was nothing i had not encountered before. However, I had been warned so this time I had to read and re-read before I proceeded with each step. And it worked! I must warn others that the glue is not sufficient for the required use; luckily, I had plenty. There was a review about the adequacy of the drawers' bottom board but I believe the particle board slat running under it, in the middle, will provide the necessary strength to hold the weight. Also, assuming the sturdy plastic rods that hold the hanging folders will bear most of the weight, then the bottom will easily support the shared weight. PLACING THE DRAWERS INSIDE THE CABINET... I placed a stool to hold the bottom drawer level with the sliding bars and, though it was a painful process for me alone, I was able to engage both sides. After some machination, I can open and close the drawer smoothly. For the top drawer, I used the box it came in, again, to bring the drawer level with the sliders. It worked too just because I did not give up. I could not wait for anyone and the job had to be finished quickly to clean up the mess created (huge box and protecting material; tools, etc.) USING A BED TO ASSEMBLE THE CABINET AND THE DRAWERS. As I always do, I placed a heavy upholstery material on the bed and the big box on top. This way, with the cabinet on top for each stage of assembly, I did not have to bend plus the item was protected. One thing, the driver overlooked that the porch door had been kept ajar for the item to be left inside but he preferred to leave it resting on the privacy wall, exposed to the elements, separate from the house/porch. I still do not know how I was able to bring the box inside the house... It is heavy at 92.4 pounds. Even though the item has not passed the test of time, it is what I expected it to be, and the drawers open/close perfectly... just because I did not rush out the project. I am satisfied with the purchase.

Let me start by saying that I love assembling kit furniture. It's actually a whole thing for me, I'm not otherwise very handy but I love following instructions and I derive a lot of satisfaction from watching something come together and kinda feeling like I did it. That said, this had me feeling less like the carpentry equivalent of a home baker making cake from a mix and more like the worst employee at the cabinet factory on her first day. This behemoth involves screws, nails, glue, measuring, and no less than 20 pieces of wood and 176 pieces of hardware, and you need all of them. Oh, you want an extra screw? Maybe you need your extra big girl pants because there are no extras here, friend. It weighs 90lbs fully assembled. There are 46 steps, presented as 17 steps. It took me something like 3 hours. Three hours hunched over on my living room rug too proud to ask my husband for help, as he had taken the opportunity to do some work on his truck and I didn't want to admit defeat. But yeah, it looks pretty nice. It had better, because it will stay in this house forever, because I would cut it into pieces with an axe before I would try to haul it somewhere else and I just spent three hours putting it together. I feel like I gave birth to it. So it's here for the duration, for better or for worse. Minus one star because it was missing some screws. I think. Maybe I lost them. Just.... minus one star.

We really like this file cabinet. It takes care of our needs..pretty piece of furniture..

When it arrived it weighed about 110 lbs. I thought to myself it must be stout, “wrong”. All the Particle Board pieces were thick and heavy made it really hard to hold together while trying to assemble. The whole thing was Particle-Board so don’t let it fool you into thinking you bought a quality piece of furniture it’s not. All the hardware was probably the cheapest I have ever seen, especially trying to hold the large boards together while assembling. It took forever to assemble not because I didn’t know what I was doing; it was because the hardware would keep falling apart while trying to get the operation done. The instructions were pretty clear so that wasn’t a problem, getting the unsteady thing to stay together long enough to assemble the last pieces together was the problem. The last couple of boards are what is holding it together, I mean keep it from falling apart. The hardware is so cheap the thing will never be sturdy, especially when it weighs 110 lbs. The hardware must have been purchased in China at the discount store. It is absolutely the most unsteady piece of furniture I have ever purchased. I would have returned it, but I waited too long to start the assembly process to return it. The box sat around a month or so before I had the time to assemble it. I did think about, what if I had to return it, but I was confident that for the price it must be a good piece of furniture and didn’t worry about it, which was a huge mistake. The filing cabinet is truly the most unsteady cheap piece of furniture I have ever purchased.

Even though the material is particle board, the furniture is very well made and sturdy. In order to put together correctly, you must take your time and follow the instructions and carefully look at the pictures to make sure you put the dowels in the correct holes. The only issue I had was the instructions called for putting glue in all holes that contained dowels, but they didn't give enough glue. I only put glue in the first hole the dowel went into to hold them in place. But I didn't put glue in the other side. The unit is very solid with this method, so it worked out fine. But you could buy some wood glue if you wanted to put glue in all holes. Overall, I'm am very happy with this purchace.

See pictures for description! Both sides panels of the cabinet were badly damaged. The box was obviously damaged and then wrapped in plastic. I would not have paid full price for a damaged file cabinet!!! I’m hoping I can hide the damage with where I am placing the cabinet. I will update my review once I see if that is possible. So disappointing. The cabinet looks beautiful otherwise. UPDATE-4:30/2021 Brandie, Customer Service at Amazon, was wonderful! I put the cabinet together and, of course, the top and sides had obvious damage. I was able to touch up most of it with the touch up marker that came with the cabinet, but the rest I am choosing to ignore as the cabinets will not be in a focal point in the house. The rest of the cabinet is fine and most parts were marked for ease of putting together. Brandi, at Amazon, gave me a discount for keeping the cabinet. I was missing four file bars as well. I did not know that I could have called Sauder Furniture directly and had them send me missing and replacement parts for free. I called Sauder (after talking to Brandi at Amazon) and got excellent customer service at Sauder too. She had the missing parts sent to me in 2 days by priority mail. I will be ordering another cabinet directly from Sauder as soon as it is back in stock, as customer service also sent me a 20% off promo code. Love the cabinet!

This surprised me as to how well built this product was for compressed wood, VERY solid. It was shipped and the top piece was damaged, I went online and was sent a replacement that arrived very quickly, Sauder was great to deal with in that respect. It does require COMPLETE assembly but the instructions are very clear and all of the pieces fit together. They only give the exact number of parts and one screw was broken so it is one short but suffers nothing where I decided not to use one. Plan on using extra glue. The instructions said to wipe excess off, I put one drop in each hole, did not have to wipe any off and still ran out. Regular household wood glue worked just fine. I would purchase another product from Sauder!

El mueble viene tal como está anunciado: no es madera 100% pero es sólido y tiene un buen acabado. Incluye la tornillería y herrajes y las instrucciones para armar en tres idiomas, pero los diagramas sólo se muestran en el apartado del idioma inglés, lo que representa una dificultad para los que no son angloparlantes. Lo malo: 1) No todas las piezas llegaron debidamente rotuladas. 2) Muy mal empacado, la caja llegó rota y algunas piezas se rasparon. Se pudieron rescatar, pero no debería haber sucedido de haberlo empacado adecuadamente. 3) Otra pieza llegó con una reparación ya hecha en fábrica. Aún así decidí conservarlo, aunque después encontré el mismo mueble a casi la mitad de precio en una tienda local.

Very sturdy and goes together nicely

Sturdy and heavy, only time will tell how well it holds up

Looks ok but it took a lot of work to put together. After a couple of hours and a trip to the hardware store to get screws that were missing in looked like in the picture - but the corners were not flush. Good enough I thought. I put my files in it. Once loaded with files it also would not function an kept sticking. Two days later i went to open the top file drawer and the entire panel pulled away from the wood slot holding it the the drawer. I was left holding the handles with no drawer attached. I wrote to the company and they promptly replied and said to send it back. To do so would take several hours to disassemble box up and then try and ship. I have decided to eat the refund and have learned a lesson about the quality here.

good looking but to much money for what it is