Mercers Furniture Corona Small 5 Drawer Chest

Another Mercers Furniture product that I absolutely adore! They’re relatively easy to assemble if you’re handy with DIY. It took me around 3 hours to assemble them both but that included the time it took to glue the panels and dowels (an extra step not mentioned in the instructions but well worth the time)Each panel is solid pine, no chipboard or MDF, even the backing and drawer bottoms are wood. It’s an amazing quality piece for the price and the two of them together fit the space extremely well.The drawers are a little on the smaller side compared to a standard set of drawers but having purchased two i knew this wouldn’t be an issue.I’d 100% recommend these & if buying them, go that extra mile and wood glue the panels.

I ordered 2 of these units and they arrived on time. Assembling the first one was a doddle, I was really pleased how it went together. The second unit was an utter nightmare! One of the side panels was bowed and another didn't even have the hole drilled out. Dowels and holes didn't match, and those chinese screws, I don't know what it is but I have several screwdrivers, drill bits etc and couldn't find a bit to properly fit the screws heads? They looked cheap and nasty.After much fettling and re-drilling the holes and wondering if the side panel would straighten out when the drawer runners were fitted, it did (phew!!) It took a lot longer than the first and I wondered if whoever packed this or cut/drilled the pieces out was having as bad day? Can't blame the retailer he can't be expected to check each box, but someone at the manufacturers need to know. Gave them a 4 star because of this, shame really because they are worth the money and really nice drawers.

Fantastic quality love Corona furniture

I don't mind a flat pack and see it as a bit of a puzzle but my word this has a lot of pieces. Once you get on your way to figuring it out it does come together but give yourself a couple of hours, be patient and the end result is great. Is made of good quality wood with a nice finish. I bought it to match my other bedroom furniture which is the Mexican wood bought from various places and it fits in well.

Value for money, very strong, looks lovely in the bedroom

I purchased 2 sets of drawers, the first one I assembled was perfect, then I started on the second one. Omg, I would think it was manufactured by a blind person, the top and one side were badly warped, and I had great difficulty lining up the dowel holes, one of the pre drilled holes wasn’t deep enough and ended up sticking out of the side and split the wood ! The top has about a 10 mm gap at the front where it’s warped so bad and actually pulled the screw out. The back has approximately a 10mm gap between the actual top and the side where it was pre drilled for the fixing dowel, the other side is perfectly lined up. I will never be buying anything else from this company.

I.e. me. Hellishly difficult if you are not good at relatively simple DIY. A competent person with the right equipment will have no problems, as indicated by other reviewers. Good instructions but time consuming. Fortunately I have a very practical grandson with lots of tools. A screwdriver would take ages so he used a controllable battery powered model. Still took an afternoon. Partly because he had to disassemble my disastrous efforts 🤔.Not fabulous quality but reasonably priced, provides good storage, and looks very pleasing in situ.

I didnt think when I was looking at the drawings it was so hard I'm not good at following instructions on paper mi head was mashed by time I had finish building them they are good and sturdy and I love themFive stack drawers seeing it said it should take 50 minutesWell I started 12 15 pm and finished it at 7 15 pm but I've not done one b4 so that's ok once it was up i loved it and well worth waiting for I'm sure some one younger will be quicker I'm 74 and give myself a clap well done to me lol