Kitchen Cart

Although the directions were a little sparse, one piece of wood came with nails that became un-nailed during delivery (solved with a dash of wood glue) I love this already. I was looking for a better coffee station with onion and potato storage and I got just that with this order! On top of that I got to use the drawers in this unit to unload some of my miscellaneous kitchen drawers of their wine utensil burdens. This was overall pretty easy to assemble, pretty sturdy (considering the price), and has great capacity with room to grow into! I do wish the drawers had a catch at the end of them so I didn't accidentally pull them out all the way, but oh well, this was cheap and works great in the space!

I bought this to add just a little extra storage to our apartment kitchen. We already have a good-sized pantry and cabinets, and this really helped give us some bonus storage so the pantry wasn't so cluttered. It wasn't too difficult to put together, but the instructions look a little confusing when you first look at it.The cart is a little on the short side, I'm 5'5" and it would be somewhat uncomfortable for me to try to stand up and work on the surface for an extended period of time. The low height was a selling point because we needed it to fit under the kitchen counter, so this is not a negative, just something to be aware of. I was able to fit this under my counter with two filled produce bowls, so that alone made this worth buying (the bowls took up so much room and they were constantly in the way, so I am already happy.) We did end up moving it to a small corner to the side of the counter and behind one of the dining room chairs, and it isn't too tight.My main complaint is the paper towel holder thing on the left side. It is not secure at all and seems pretty pointless.I removed the middle shelf on the right side so I could put my cookie sheets and wire racks on the bottom, I do wish I could have swapped the shelf with the wine rack, but overall, this is a great little piece for extra room. I would not necessarily recommend this for a long-term investment, it's a little cheap and there are probably better pieces out there. But this is great for small spaces/apartments.

Before I start with the good, I’ll just touch on the bad. This cart is very short. It’s not even waist height. My husband is thankfully a carpenter and added a 5 inch extension on for me (as you can see in the picture) he also added a board to the bottom so I have 2 more storage compartments. The added wood gives this about a counter top height and makes it more sturdy. Yes this can hold a kitchen aid mixer, but if you bake bread like me and knead dough this is not as sturdy as you’d want it to be. It’s super light weight, and seems like it’s easy to break if you aren’t careful. So if you have someone or can add stabilizers yourself, I’d do it .Now that that’s out of the way. The space on the counter top is amazing. It’s perfect for dough work, chopping, food prep, food decorating etc. It is also perfect for microwaves, toaster ovens and other small appliances. I love the storage (2 drawers, 2 baskets, 2 shelves, 2 wine racks) and the look is beautiful for any kitchen and gives a farmhouse type of feel. I have 5 kids and a hungry husband, I cook from scratch every night, bake my own breads, biscuits, cookies, cakes etc. I also make video tutorials to show how to do this. This trolley makes it an absolute breeze to do all of this. So is it worth it?For the price, this is a great bakers island. Especially if you have someone to make the additions I mentioned. If you don’t however, I would think about investing a little more money, to get a sturdier work space.*tried adding a picture and for some reason it didn’t work

I liked this item so much, I bought a second one shortly after assembling the first one. No blemishes were present. The first cart was missing Part E (the floating slatted shelves) but the seller was extremely responsive and sent replacements which arrived a few days later.I've seen some reviews state this cart is orange, so I'll clarify: It is NOT orange. The color is a light brown stain with slightly honey-orange tones by which I mean it's functionally a pale brown in a warm tone which on the tonal spectrum leans toward orange. How much that is played up or down depends upon the colors of the room and any objects put in proximity with it. Art 101. The cart does not look orange, but if you are looking for a wood that's of a cool maple-like white hue this is not that. It's a very sturdy serving/storage cart and it's 100% wood construction means it should hold up well and it will accept some hacks/modifications if that matters to you. The wire baskets are very sturdy - the weave is big though, so if you want to store smaller things in them that might fall through, your best option will probably be to use a linen towel a woven mesh bag or some pliable metal mesh to line the bottom/sides. You could also weave-in your own wire lattice. If you are trying to purchase a petite but sturdy meal-prep island that would use alot of heavy hardware and possibly pounding forces, do not get this; the working surface height is only 29inches from the floor so it's too low for anyone over approximately 4'7" tall standing to comfortably use in that manner (and a seated person would have no leg room), but even if your stature is ideal for height, the cart is not intended for heavy-duty use and thus is not structurally sturdy enough to take the beating. Light meal prep on the other had, it would be fine for if the height ratios are met.The item arrives flat-pack and requires a phillips head (cross/star-head) screwdriver to assemble; it comes with the alen wrench required for the larger screws. The enclosed instructions are pictorial and don't take it step by step so I found them confusing, but I found the actual parts very easy to interpret -there are only so many ways you could orient the parts that it was easy to figure out how to put together:The main thing to know is that it's easiest to build the drawers first, then fasten the cross-pieces to connect the 3 vertical leg-supports, and then secure that whole structure to the cart-top and tighten everything up if it's just you. If you have a second person, secure the legs to the table top first. The middle-leg support has forks on each end which fit notches in the table-top and horizontal support. The cross-piece/horizontal part with the black plastic sockets is for holding the wheels on...so you are building the cart on its head with the legs sticking up in the air and those black dots facing upward toward you. So you would pop in the wheels and then when you turn it over, it's resting on the wheels. The towel-hanger is a sturdy but slender wire-style that simply pops into 2 small drilled holes located on the left-hand side if you are looking at it from the front (though a handy person could put it elsewhere by drilling their own holes). When constructing the drawers, please note that the squares that become the drawer-bottoms are not actually perfectly symmetrical thus there is a right and wrong orientation for insertion in order to get the back-piece to snap into place. If it's not going together, give it a quarter-turn and try inserting in that orientation. I thought the drawers looked best and worked equally well just leaving the enclosed drawer-pulls off. The wine-rack parts are another floating part like the slatted shelves. The wine racks go on the bottom, resting on top of the cross-piece that holds the wheels. Part E (slatted shelves) are designed to both go on the right hand side as pictured. That said, the wooden drawers can be slide in from either side so you do have the option of accessing the drawers from the reverse side of the wire baskets if it's going to be in the middle of a floor space instead of against the wall. The wire-basket tracks are carved directionally - the baskets can only be pulled out from the front and the only tracks that accept them are located on the left.And finally: I made a wonderful discovery that has limited utility but is salient for anyone that values adjustability: While Part E (the slatted shelves) are designed to go on the right hand side of the cart, they will actually fit over all of the sections that have little wooden cross-supports (so that includes the bottom where the wine racks are meant to go as well as as on top of the wire basket sections (not in the channel but on top). So...You can tetris shelving all over the unit including right on top of the pull-out baskets if what you intend to put in them is low-profile Also, you can rest the baskets on top of the brackets meant to support the slatted shelves (though less securely unless you use one of the little screws meant to secure the drawer pulls to act as a peg-stop instead). Since I have 2 carts, I have 4 shelves and 4 wire baskets to work with and chose to make 1 cart more shelf heavy and 1 cart more basket heavy to suit my purposes. I have plans to convert the wine racks which I have no purpose for on the carts into a hanging pot rack with some other scavenged hardware in the near future. I also figured out that while you cannot get a whole paper towel tube around the bend in the towel-rod, you can saw a paper towel into the same width as toilet paper (which gets you 2 sections per roll for the cart and a little strip you can use for small jobs elsewhere) and pass the towel rod through it for a makeshift holder - so I have a draped linen towel and a sawed-off paper towel section installed side-by-side on one towel rod and I discovered that my small cutting board will sit on top of the other cart's towel-rod, leaning at a 45 degree angle toward the table top...so that's now a cutting board holder. And since it is solid wood (which is why I bought it), I'm likely to install other scavenged hardware in the future for various purposes which to me is a virtue of this cart. For example, you could secure a magnetic knife bar in a few places; I'm using a vertical magnetic table-top knife rack on it at present.I liked the adaptability so much that I actually contacted the seller to request to purchase 6 more pieces of part E (slatted shelves) so that I could have more shelf-tetrising options for both carts for the life of the furniture as that is what I love most about these carts. It would have put the purchase WAY over the top in customer satisfaction for me. The seller was very responsive and gave me a same-day answer but unfortunately they don't sell additional parts which saddened me greatly but is in no way a reflection of its intended functioning.So - if the ability to customize it appeals to you, you have some limited options if you purchased 1 cart and more if you've purchased multiples. But the only other way to get more baskets or more slatted shelves is if someone purchases this cart and decides to resell it or its parts online at a discount later, which I certainly will keep an eye out for.