BDI Furniture Corridor 8177-65” TV Stand With Storage

I truly appreciate the excellent customer service that Smart Furniture | Office Designs provided on a minor issue I had on a product. The Customer Experience Specialist (A.M.) was very prompt in responding, courteous, professional, genuine, informative, and ready to efficiently remediate the issue. I am greatly appreciative of the outstanding of service provided and I look forward to doing additional business in the future.

arrived in perfect shape, well packed. Very good communication on delivery. Assembly was easy, high quality hardware. Looks great! Impressed with quality of product.

TL;DR: This is a nice and well-built piece of furniture that I expect will last a long time. It looks exactly as it appears in the photos. No major problems.

Before I continue I would like to make note of the leg height, which is much greater than I expected. This is not the unit’s fault, but surprised me and I’m hoping that by pointing it out someone else might be saved from making an error. When I was buying this I was going back and forth between the quad unit and this one. Turns out there are TWO quad units, one with lower legs — which is the look I wanted — and one with higher legs. The triple-wide version is only available with higher legs, and I didn’t notice that. So moral of the story, watch the details if you’re trying to decide between the two.

On to the actual experience of receiving and working with the unit.

Delivery was not great. One older, fairly thin driver showed up, and the box is very large and extremely heavy. He was having trouble just getting it off of the truck, let alone up the stairs and into my home. Eventually, with lots of heaving and work, we managed to get the thing up the stairs. Good times were had by all and I was worried that the delivery guy would have a heart attack but luckily that did not occur.

I didn’t buy the assembly so the rest was up to me. I opened the box, paying heed to the “this side up” printed on the side, and started pulling out various bits of styrofoam. Nothing made sense, and I found myself looking at the bottom of the unit and unsure of what I was supposed to do or where the parts were. After more heaving — required to flip the box — I discovered that they’d put it in upside down. So here’s a pro tip: If you open the box and find another box with the glass top inside, that is the correct up side. Otherwise, flip the thing over and continue. It’s tricky to work upside down, because most of the parts are inside of the sliding drawer, and you can’t get them out from the bottom.

The actual assembly wasn’t too difficult. Screw on the legs, flip the thing upright, screw on the handles. Finally, put some rubber pieces on the top and place the glass. This last part is a two person job. That glass is large and heavy.

Other than the printing issue the packaging was pretty good and the furniture arrived relatively unscathed. There are a couple of marks on the wood that I’m not super happy about but they’re not quite serious enough to warrant a return.

My Sonos soundbar fits nicely on the top shelf above the drawer, and there’s plenty of room in the rest of the unit for a DVR, gaming system, a few miscellaneous controllers and switches, about 40 games, and other stuff. The back of the unit is nicely designed with velcro loops and various holes for cable management, so once everything is in place you really can’t see any cables. Very clean look, which is exactly why I bought this.

From a usability perspective one of the draws of this unit was that my equipment would work right through the slats. I can’t say that that’s absolutely true. My TiVo, for example, is a bit less responsive than it used to be and sometimes I need to re-point the controller a bit to get it to change channels. Kind of annoying.

All in all not a bad piece. It looks really nice, hides the equipment, and mostly does what it’s supposed to do.

This piece is really well made and has thought of every detail in the construction. Has wheels on the bottom that are removable/concealed for ease of access. Back panel is sliding and has many different access points for cords. The interior has a recessed shelf for the soundbar to be hidden within the console. The piece is about 200 lbs so it is very sturdy and yet has the louvered front door panels that give a lightness to the console and the black glass top is very elegant. I LOVE IT. The only downside is that it came damaged and I had to get it replaced but the company was very receptive and had it replaced within a few weeks.