Furinno Jaya Simply Home 3-Tier Bookcase

I needed some slim shelves to store purses on behind the clothing hanging in my closet. These were on sale at half price and fit my closet and budget perfectly. They are not super stable, but are moreso than I was given to believe when reading other reviews. If I was storing or displaying heavier items in a high traffic area, the included wall strap would certainly have been necessary.

They look about like what you would expect for pressboard shelves. This isn’t heirloom furniture, but they look decent and get the job done. They were packed well, so no scratches or dings. The label stickers also came off easily without marring the finish like others had trouble with. I do really like the espresso color. It’s a nice dark black-brown. Also, some pressboard has a terrible chemical smell, but it wasn’t really noticeable on these. So yay!

Putting it together took about 45 minutes and was relatively easy, even without help. Instructions were clear and concise. Pictures were labeled and helpful. The hardest part was screwing in the baseboard to the bottom shelf. The holes were marked, but not pre-drilled so it took me a while to screw them in with a screwdriver. My hand strength is pretty bad though. I think it took me 20 minutes just to do that step while keeping the boards lined up. Everything else was easy peasy (despite my cat doing her best to “help”). All boards, holes, and screws lined up perfectly. Honestly, the only time I felt I needed a second person was when I toted the finished shelves up the stairs.

I can finally update this one. I’m increasing review to 5 stars with details to follow. They have very polite customer service members. They are slow. And apologized each time for the delay. I can’t put that all on them because honestly I just expected them to ignore the request and never respond. So pleasantly surprised.
They actually responded to my follow up email. It was confusing and I thought they were sending me a label to return it. And then the next time I emailed back because they forgot or it slipped out before they sealed the package the little tiny dowels. So I had to wait another week for it. Both times the packing was superb. Guys. It blew my mind. They took care of it like they were sending it to grandma.

This time I waited to get a 2nd pair of hands to help hold it steady for assembly. It’s solid. It’s sturdy. And I’m very pleased with the end result. Between the excellent service and the care taken in mailing the replacement items without making me even pay s&h? Full stars.
I forgot to add pics after assembly so just showing on its planned home (another shelf).
The backing piece unfolds and held together with tape tape when unfolded. I added extra tape along with the middle to help for long term. And I colored over the small gap with black permanent marker to avoid the light coming through being obvious. That is something I’ve learned over previous years of diy.

It’s been just over 2 weeks since this was delivered. I started assembly the weekend it was delivered. As part of the instructions, you assemble the various items in a specific order. I’ve include a closeup of Step 1 & 2 where you have the middle part of this bookshelf (the “H”).
The steps aren’t complicated, but they could use more details.

The line in the “H”, requires 4 wooden dowels to be connected, and those in turn to be connected to the end pieces. I cannot stress how delicate they are until its all stable. Well, at least I assume it will be stable. I’m still waiting on the replacement parts. While connecting the 2 outer edges to the dowels, the wobble factor was under anticipated. I’m embarrassed to admit that the dowels broke instantly when the 2nd one was attached, and I’d let go of the other side. Picture the attempt – trying to save one side, and the other side also becomes precariously balanced, and end up both becoming unstable.

I was able to remove 2 of the broken dowels, and I might have been able to salvage the part “G”, but the other side, the 2 holes are completely filled. I don’t have a drill, and even if I did, I’d need the 4 replacement dowels.

I’d have paid extra to have it delivered fully assembled — why isn’t that even an option?
Anyhow – if you end up like me just needing something on the smaller side to help corral some desktop clutter, the feel of the parts is well cheap, but I’d think they’d be stable enough for the weight specified. The all black will hide a variety of sins. I even bought screw covers after reading in the reviews that would have been a nice touch to make it look nicer.

The cons:
–Pet peeve, always the directions are really light on details. And why do you have so many items to do in each step, instead of separate steps?
–Well, Amazon directed me to the website product support of the manufacturer. It wasn’t too difficult to fill out the lengthy questionnaire. Just be prepared, I recommend if you’re on your phone, switch over to pc or laptop.
–Timeframe for responses – took a week for them to respond, asking for more photos. I responded today, so guessing it will be another week for them to respond, either with another question, or a request to pay for the shipping & addtl parts.
–Length of time waiting – I’m this close to throwing it all out. Waiting so long for this to be resolved is annoying. Do I salvage my time, and wait, or do I throw it out now, and buy something else for the more instant gratification? $40.00 isn’t a deal breaker, but still, in this economy? You don’t want to just throw it away no matter the irritation.

The Pros:
–The price is fine. I’d have paid more for it fully assembled. Why isn’t this an option? that ANYone offers?
–Items are lightweight, and as described. The material is pressed wood, so it does ‘feel’ cheaper when you look at it.
–While I did complain about the instructions, these are better than many I’ve seen, in that the size of the photos could be easily viewed.
–Each of the items were clearly labeled – this is something that is often missed, so kudos to the manufacturer – very neat and organized.

Summary
Well, this is one of those that I have to wait & update. If there isn’t too much more of a delay, and the parts are replaced with only cheap fees, then I’ll likely be happy and upgrade the review.

For now, I’m on the fence with rating. Part of this is on me (I didn’t fully understand the directions, and when it started to fall apart, overreacted when fumbling to save it, and items broke). Why can ‘t I go with half stars?

Ordered two of these for my bedroom, shelves are ok but only 1 of the 2 shelves contained build instructions. Not all holes are pre-drilled leaving you screwing into bare wood and praying everything lines up at times (I installed part of one shelf incorrectly and had to redo it). I’d also recommend making sure you have these against a wall since they’re pretty light weight and can be easily knocked over. Pretty solid 3.5/5 – they’ll work, and they look nice once built.

Well it is a bookshelf, but not a very good one! I ordered two shelves and was only able to put together one bookshelf because so many of the pieces of “wood” came with huge scratches or dents on them. There were even two pieces I just couldn’t even use cause they were so damaged, so I mix and matched between the two boxes of product to create 1 ‘still not great’ shelf. I was planning to return both of them, but I waited too long to put them together thinking it would be fine, and missed the Return by Date, so I decided to just make 1 shelf, and I have the broken/ crappy parts still sitting in the other box and I’ll probs throw it out. Also the back board that you nail into the back of the shelf is soooooooo incredibly flimsy its RIDICULOUS!! The best way to describe it is super thin cardboard. But its so thin or such bad quality that even as I was unfolding the back part to lay down on the shelf to nail it in, the seems of the cardboard started to tare right down the seems! Because the back cardboard tared at the seems when I was putting together the (1st/only) shelf, and I was stealing parts from the second shelves box, I was extra careful when I was handling the cardboard from the second shelf and that one also still tared down the seems. Not to mention that that boxes’ pieces were so bad and obviously used before, that those cardboard pieces looked extremely scratched up and worn, so I ended up just using the 1st boxes cardboard, and I ducted taped the seems just so I could build the 1 shelf. Do not recommend buying this brand again.

Me agrado como en 30 o 40 minutos lo arme sin ningun problema, y se ajusto al tamaño a que adecue cada casillero, ya tengo mejor organizado mis cosas, altamente recomendable.