On 1 May 2005 13:01:02 -0700, "Demonseed"
wrote:

I would like to make it much more sturdier. Can
anyone advise me how to do it, without damaging the look too much?

Take a chainsaw to it, then buy something decent in the first place.
Good solid joinery is a matter of design in the first place, not buying
some cheap particle board garbage and then trying to nail brackets onto
it.