We were looking for a small bank for our stairwell. While rummaging we've found at AMAZON this bank. The wood is natural, so you can apply some color with a glaze without covering the grain of the wood. Unfortunately, the quality to be desired. There are a lot of splinters on the individual parts, a sign that was not planed properly. The assembly instructions are a joke. We have a couple hours broken our heads, like the chest flap is mounted in such a way that you can also open. There were pre-drilled in this area neither holes nor in any way an indication of how the hinges to be screwed on securely. The images of the manual you can safely forget. So to all the people who want to build these bank itself: Get a Phonetic some advice, otherwise you busy for hours. If you're building ultimately managed somehow, the bench seems not very stable and you do not dare to impose up, because you have always ahben fear that the lid breaks. With a simple, additional supporting wood on the inside were all wesenlich stable. I will probably now have to install yourself, so that the whole is stable .... Too bad, because the bank is actually visually a hit.