Loved this desk; I ordered the black for my daughters bedroom. She wanted a more grown up look and this definitely made the grade. Easy to assemble, just add the legs and tighten the drawer knobs. The only reason I'm giving it 4 stars instead of 5, it scratches so easily & it arrived scratched up. You could see yellow underneath the dark paint. I used a sharpie to fill in the nicks and scratches, but I really would have preferred not to. The black is a flat almost charcoal gray-black, which is nice. I think if it had been ultra black or had a shiny sheen, we wouldn't have liked it. PS, the 2 drawers are pretty small, I neglected to check the dimensions of the desk to figure this out ahead of time, but this is still okay for our needs. The desk writing surface is so large, that it works out very well. Her teen room is quite sophisticated looking now and we both really love the helix legs.