Love this desk and am sitting at it right now in fact. It was easy to assemble and the instructions were straightforward. As others have mentioned, the surfaces are glass, but they are opaque and not semi-transparent. The only downside is that one of the surfaces had a few, small scratches on the underside where the black coating is located. A little black nail polish fixed these, but it would be nice if the material wasn't so prone to scratches. Other than that, great desk!