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24 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
You get what you pay for.
By Jenn
Pay the extra money to get something nice! It came in a million pieces and took a while to put together. I have had it for about 6 months. The drawers do not close any more because the center shelf has sunk in the middle. The other day the bottom of the pressboard wood in the drawer fell out. I am online trying to look for a little part so that I can use the drawer again. If I had to do it over I would of never bought the harborview collection and wish I would of gone to a store to see it! Good luck shopping and hope you find something that works for you.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
I love the Sauder's Harbor View Antiqued White product line!
By anonymous
-------------February 2012-------------The surface of this furniture line is a very think contact paper (thin plastic veneer), and is relatively fragile. Sauder's waxy sticks for touch-up are AWFUL; you'll need to find an alternative. Regarding any piece of the Harbor View collection "Antiqued White" finish, the following paint is a pretty darn good match (at Lowes):Valspar Interior Paint, 3004-10C, "Lovely Bluff," Satin finish.-------------October 2011-------------I bought three pieces of Sauder's Harbor View, all in Antiqued White color.1) two libraries with open shelves and one library with cabinet on bottom. I could not be more pleased. I've read other people's reviews not recommending these pieces. I have no experience with Sauder's other product lines and colors, so what I say here is in regard to Harbor View Antiqued White.1) If you need a particular piece of furniture for an event (like guests are coming), you have to give yourself and the manufacturer three months' lead time. If you need a piece of furniture fast, buy from your local furniture store at ten times the price.2) Yes, pieces are going to arrive damaged. Of the above-mentioned order, FedEx had done something drastically damaging to two of the three bookcases in transit, sent the boxes back to the shipper, I got notified through FedEx tracking about the delay and why, and in two weeks, two replacement bookcases arrived. In addition, of all three bookcases, one or more individual pieces arrived damaged.Sauder.com has an wonderful all-automated way for you to notify them of exactly which pieces you need replacements for; within two weeks, the pieces arrive. All of this is done no-charge. I order the replacement parts, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. No fuss, no muss.3) 95% of whether your bookcase comes out right or not is the responsibility of the installer. Regarding cabinet doors, you have to tweak them to get them to line up, and/or shut properly. In any case, you don't have to live long-term with feeling dissatisfied--do something about it! Our cabinet doors came out ABSOLUTELY PERFECTLY because my hubbie is a woodworking hobbyist and knows how to finagle cabinet doors "just so." If your cabinet door is not right, there are only two possibilities: a) the door is defective, in which case go on the Sauder website and order a new door. b) Whoever installed the door didn't know what they were doing; view videos on YouTube on how to finagle a cabinet door. Or both. But stop complaining.My experience of Sauder has been positive. Don't expect Sauder's furniture to be high-end. I call Sauder's Harbor View product line as "high-end Walmart," because that's what it is. Sauder's products I call "honest" furniture: it isn't touted as being anything than what it is, and has a low price-tag to boot. We call them big Heathkits, without the electronics.On the other hand, honesty is not what you get when you go furniture-shopping at mid- to high-end furniture stores (like EthAl). They have what I call "fake" furniture because when you "look under the hood," it is no better than Sauder's: they attempt to convince you that pieces deserve astronomically high price-tags, and charge 10 x Sauder. Go shopping to any EthAl stores and inspect the innards of cabinet pieces (like wall units), you'll see how thin the sides and tops are (they hardly qualify as being sides and tops) and that many of the surfaces are no more than a veneer with fancy sprayed-on lacquers. There is very little (if not no) solid wood involved.------------------------FURNISHING WHOLE HOUSE------------------------Just so you know, over the next year, I'm furnishing our whole house with Sauder's Harbor View Antiqued White pieces, from armoires to dressers to TV credenzas to bookcases to desks. On a budget, I will furnish a whole house for under $5,000. Try to beat that. We'll be getting two or three pieces at a time over the next year-and-a-half. Only after one batch gets installed do we order the next batch of 2,3 pieces. If you go to a furniture store, you can easily spend $5,000 merely on a wall unit; you go broke real fast. Since I'm sticking to one product line/color, over time we will move be able to swap Harbor View pieces from room to room and it'll still all match.--------------MY WISH LIST--------------I wish the Harbor View product line included a tall and thin (15"-20" wide x 72" or higher) bookshelf/cabinet combo like Walmart's Better Homes and Gardens Cottage Linen Tower but taller. I got a piece like this from Walmart to be store toilet paper and books and doodads. I wish it had a little drawer (I'll probably put a basket on one of the shelves).I wish the Harbor View product line contained executive desks and cabinet and bookcase combos, which would be in my sewing room as a crafts' center with sewing machine as top-billing.--------------JANUARY 2012--------------I bought two Sauder armoires. One we put together this weekend and one has replacement parts pending. Like I said before, ordering replacement parts is not only typical; it's a given. So don't slam the manufacturer or distributor for faulty pieces; it can't not happen. That's why you bought your DIY well ahead of time! Because we are using the armoires to store bed linens and towels (not TV), my hubbie added shelf-holes. We'll build a couple shelves for each armoire.Regarding touchups: The surface appears to be a thin contact paper and *WILL* need touchups now and then. I disagree with using Sauder's touchup "wax"--we tried it and actually made the boo-boo far worse. For touchups, I'll be using Valspar paint color Woodrow Wilson Blush 3002-8BC. I'll let you know how it turns out.---------SUMMARY---------I recommend Sauder's Harbor View Antiqued White line. It is a comely collection, with lots of added details creating interest and the allure of comfort (my words).----------------------------------------------------HOW MANY SAUDER'S HARBOR VIEW PIECES BOUGHT SO FAR----------------------------------------------------Five.
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Warped Wood
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