When you read the reviews about how hard this thing is to put together, LISTEN! In the end the top part of it wouldn't even go all the way together because the dowels were too long and ran into each other. I wasn't able to find another desk like this so I guess I'll take what I can get, but the quality and assembly are awful. It took my husband and I at least three hours to finally get it together as it kept falling apart whenever we moved to the next step.