I bought this for my multipurpose (office/exercise/game) room and have yet to use it but have assembled it. It was fairly straight forth to assemble and took less than an hr. It's enough space/sturdy enough to hold a laptop and complete assignments but it's not a full sized desk. It's  perfect for the area I need. I do plan on changing the hardware or painting it as the brushed silver does not meet my needs. And like other said the back is unfinished so iconsider placement unless u want to address that (only the top of the desk).