Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

My kitchen and living room are covered with ClosetMaid Cubeicals furniture. I spent a few hundred dollars on them. Now i can tell you what a dumb mistake i made. When i first got these i thought they were good for the price. I had a list of issues with them but i figured it came with the territory --buy cheap particleboard furniture and you get a low quality product. So while i wasn't in love with the Cubeicals i figured they were allright for their low price. My mistake. Recently i bought another brands cheap particle board furniture and realize that, hey, you can actually make good quality and inexpensive particle board furniture and not all is as bad as Closetmaids. My issues: 1. Bad design --all the screw heads stick out, making it very difficult to stack --and stacking is one of supposed plus of this type of furniture. Other makers have recessed screw holes, so the head doesn't stick out which makes them easy to stack in any direction. 2. Bad quality --The particle board is terrible. You can't screw in the screws very tight because the particle board breaks up so the screws just spin in place. and can be pulled out. Other makers use better quality particle board that is strong enough to grip on to screws. 3. Bad design & bad quality -- the backs of these are thin paperboard that you have to use nails and hammer in to the particle board. Since the particle board is low quality, the nails often distort the boards and leave bumps. Other makers use much sturdier backs, not made out of paperboard and some are so well designed they don't require screws but easily slip in (you wouldn't be able to do that with Closetmaid's thin paper boards). Overall what i figured out after spending a few hundred dollars is that Closetmaid makes some of the worst particle board furniture out there, but the size of the company and their ability to make deals with other big companies such as Amazon and Home Depot, means that most people don't realize that there are much better options out there, just harder to find.