The wood imitation on the front can be easily exchanged and replaced by another (hardware store in the blank), or simply no then they are completely black.
It can easily slightly larger boxes are placed on the upper glass plate (my have about 25x25cm footprint) if it is indeed true for all the above boxes, I do not know! I can only say as long as the boxes too heavy or even much larger are going there with no problems.
All in all a super product at this price.