Gitua 55" W Rolling Kitchen Island with Drop Leaf – Movable Kitchen Carts on Wheels Island with Storage Cabinet, Island Table for Kitchen with Rubber Wood Top and Rack and Drawers, Matte, White

Prepare to be a power screwdriver machine! Great design with rolling butcher block leaf. Beautiful. Very usable space in cabinets. Fit and finish (with some patience) awesome. Nothing damaged in shipment. Nice needed part of our kitchen now!

Had this almost a year now, it’s working great, very stable and survived a move with no issues. Worked great for my tiny apartment with no cabinet space, and fits well in my new house also. However, it is a PROJECT to put together. Had to spend a few days on it, working on it bit by bit after work. To put it into perspective, you have to fully put the drawers together, down to screwing on the drawer mechanism and hinges on the cabinet doors. The instructions are easy to follow, so it’s definitely do-able. And i enjoy that sort of thing so I didn’t mind. Was just surprised by how much work it was. The wheels were particularly impressive to me, very heavy duty which is good because the unit itself is heavy and we use it for storage for our pots and pans. Wheels lock just like they should. Overall I definitely recommend this for people who enjoy “adult legos”.

The Gitua Rolling Kitchen Island With Drop Leaf is both functional and a nice looking piece of furniture. There are a LOT of pieces so having some space to spread out is useful. The instructions are typical of DIY furniture with a MAJOR exception, the images and what text there is are relatively large and fairly easy to understand (you probably won't need the bifocals.) Note that items 17 and 30 on page 3 of the instructions will be found in the equipment box; and item P on page 4 is a bit unclear (I found it the only truly unclear item) because the 'P' package only had screws but the image shows there is another part...and that other part is the power outlet which is found in the main box, not the equipment box. I found assembly fairly easy, but time-consuming. It took me about 4 hours for assembly + an hour unpacking and checking all the parts and pieces. The cart can be assembeled by one person, but the assemply of the doors, spice, and towel racks are akward and a second set of hands will help. I particularly appreciated the threaded inserts for some of the screws, and that ALL THE HOLES ALIGNED; however, many of the pilot-holes for screws without threaded inserts benefited from some additional drilling to avoid stripping the heads (they strip VERY EASILY,) especially if you use a powered driver. Also, pay close attention to item "O" when securing it to the inside of the side panels (#'s 2&3, step 17, pg 3,) if you don't get them placed right (and it is a bit tricky,) then the drawers may not operate properly (the one thing I had to do twice to get right.) All-in-all I'm happy with this purchase. It meets a need, looks nice, and moves smootly It's ceretainly worth the $99 (+free shipping) I paid, but I think I'd still have been happy at it's current $179.

This is a great cart for the kitchen. My mom loves it! It adds storage and work space and looks very attractive.

So I’m updating this. Unable to find anything else for a decent price, desperate for the storage and this one just checking all of the boxes, we’ve kept it and put it together. Everyone likes the looks of it. Since this will be getting a lot of use rather than sitting in corner for occasional storage, it’s needed significant reinforcement. I added glue wherever I could during assembly and this helped with the wood pulping when turning screws. The bolts are still giving me headaches especially since one of the drawer fronts won’t stay on at all they’re just not as solid as ones I’ve used before. I’ll be adding reinforcing brackets this weekend because I don’t have confidence this will last long otherwise with heavy use (baking). I’ll also reinforce the bottom of the drawers because someone will inevitably put something heavy into them and I don’t think they can hold that much weight. I’ll have to add more holes for the shelves because they’re all too low for a Kitchenaid mixer. Getting the doors on even was a trick. I measured and all of the holes were even so I found out that there’s some leeway with where the hinges are when the screws are tightened. I had to tighten the screws with the door lined up in the right place. I didn’t have many chances to try to align them because the wood would be too compromised to hold a screw, glue or not, with too many tries. I’m not inclined to change my rating at this point because this has just been a huge pain and will continue to be until I shore it up. We’ll see how long it holds. —————————————————————— I had the same experience as the other negative reviews and am returning this. When screwing in hardware, the plywood mostly just shredded and had little grip. Despite being careful to not over tighten, the plywood twisted up and the black cover cracked. I tried gorilla glue to keep the integrity of the plywood, but I think it just absorbed it because when I unscrewed it to send it back, it was like there was no glue at all. When trying to use the round screw thing (pictured), none tightened properly no matter what I did. I just used this type of hardware on another item, and there’s a huge difference in hardware quality. It was still wobbly no matter what I did. I can’t imagine this holding up to the wear kitchen furniture can sustain. I’m really sour. I spent a lot of time unboxing this, trying to get it together, take it apart and now I need to figure out how to rebox it. No more non-name brand stuff. I really need the extra storage in the kitchen but no way am I doing this again. I’ll have to figure something else out. We’ll see how the return goes.

Dice que es de madera y no es, es de comprimida! Las gavetas inferiores se cierran por un Micro imán, que si tienen algún pequeño obstáculo, entonces ya no cierran, calidad muy baja para el precio!