IC International Concepts Rectangular Lamp/End/Side Table, 2 Drawers Eco-Friendly Parawood, Kitchen/Dining Furniture, Easy Assembly, 25.6"H, Paint or Stain in Any Color, Unfinished

I bought two of these lamp tables and painted them. They take paint very well and finish beautifully (assuming the user has some level of skill). Assembly is easy. I have bought this brand of unfinished furniture in the past and will again if I have the need for a specific item I want to paint. Note that you will want to wax the drawer slides.

One of the reviewers recently said this is not fine furniture, and he's absolutely right. But it is high quality utilitarian furniture. If you've ever assembled or looked carefully at mid-level furniture-store furniture (which is typically imported), you'll be surprised at the intelligent design and manufacturing of this International Concepts product. I've built and stained seven of them, and I can attest to the superior characteristics of these products. And as a result, they are STURDY!Here are some hints from my experience with these products.1. Assembly is not that difficult, in spite of what some reviewers say. If you bought this stuff, you're already familiar with a screwdriver and an allen wrench. You may need a drill to start some of the holes which haven't been pre-drilled, but the screws that are supplied are sharp and can sort of drill their own holes.2. After assembly, be sure to sand it down a little with 220 sandpaper. It takes a stain much better this way. And be sure to inspect it carefully for gouges or glue smears. The smoothness of the parawood, right out of the box, makes you think that the entire surface is perfect. It often is not. So be sure to look it over. Once you stain it, you'll quickly find the imperfections!3. When I stained mine, I used Minwax stain. (This is not a commercial for Minwax!). At first I tried another mfr stain and it was terrible. Minwax does a good job. A word of warning: after you put the second coat of stain on, and wipe it off like the directions say, DO NOT apply a varnish or polyurethane finishing coat on it after the two hours dry time that Minwax recommends. LET IT DRY COMPLETELY for at least a day. You won't be sorry like I was.4. After a year or so, go back and retighten the allen screws. The parawood shrinks just a very little bit during the heating and cooling seasons, and can cause a little wobblyness. Re-tightening clears this right up.Of course, if you're painting it, the stain comments don't apply.Overall, a great piece of furniture, and a tremendous value.

Ordered these after searching for awhile and could not seeing spending over 100.00 or even more for mdf nightstands. Ordered these and they are easy to put together and we think they turned out great. One thing is we had to shim the sides of the drawers so they would stay in the middle. No big deal. My husband put cardboard straps on each side for each drawer and it worked beautifully. It took me about 20 minutes to put each one together. Highly recommend!

Pretty happy with the purchase overall and have purchased from them before. However was not happy that one of the drawers was broken in the box. The box was not damaged so I assume it was from the manufacturer

I detest particle board, but all wood furniture can carry a huge price tag. So I have become a fan of these Asian woods. This wood is heavy weight, and very sturdy. Some people don't like the grain, but it is fine with me. I have assembled many of these over the years, and they have all held up extremely well.Assembly has pros and cons. The drawers come fully assembled - Yeah! There are only 18 screws to insert. The hardware and number of pieces is quite manageable.But 3 issues. They give you a little Allen wrench which makes the job hard. I recommend buying a little set of hex bits for a ratchet wrench. Much easier to use, and a big time saver. Second, there are holes for the wood screws on one side, but not on the other. If you are using a hand screwdriver, creating a hole in this hard wood is difficult. An electric drill made this job easy.Finally, you'll get the usual, crummy instructions. There are things they left out that you will need to figure out.The instructions are line drawing, and there seems to be an industry competition to see who can provide the smallest drawings. I know they want to cut costs, but it wouldn't cost much to provide bigger drawings you could actually see, at the cost of 1-2 pieces of paper.So assembly had some aggravations, but the final product was very, very nice, at a good price.

I liked it. Came in with broken drawer though. I put in a return and awaiting a replacement one. I will point out that the one I received with the broken drawer was shipped to 4 other people and apparently returned. Not sure if the people receiving the returns isn't aware of why it is returned and putting it back into stock or if the company returns it to stock and ships it out anyway knowing it is broken....benefit of the doubt that it is the 1st scenario. Anyway my husband wrote all over the box that it has a broken drawer. Hope the next one is good because it is a nice piece. Will update when I receive the next one. UPDATE...the new one they shipped to me came in and it was very nice, good condition, and I can't wait to finish it.

Okay... assembly is going to be really difficult if you're new to that sort of thing. The instructions are terrible, and even incorrect in one photo (I notified the manufacturer). However, this furniture contains ZERO particle board, each piece truly is solid wood. It comes pre-sanded... if you're going to paint, you can do it right out of the box. If you want to stain and finish... I would hit it with sandpaper once more (I didn't and although I used pre-stain conditioner, it didn't take as evenly as I'd have liked). Still unsure if it would be easier to stain before assembly... I did it after.Last picture shows incorrect part of directions. That was annoying because I used wood glue in addition to the supplied hardware, and had to undo step one and redo it with glue everywhere. I did find one Dowell that was broken off, I simply used extra wood glue there.I'll be buying from this company in the future. Second piece is already on the way.