This table is time consuming but easy to put together. It is very heavy and sturdy. So heavy that I had to unpack it on the front porch, and bring it in piece by piece. It seemed very well packed but was perhaps dropped en route. When I finally got through unpacking all the pieces, I found that the desk top was badly broken. Customer service quickly dispatched another top. They were great. In the mean time, my husband and his buddy copied the broken top with a piece of plywood. They drilled all the necessary holes using the broken top as a template. I installed it, polyurethaned it, and I will keep it as I prefer wood to the original top. It is a good crafting table but I don't understand why they designed the side drawer the way they did. Two simple separate drawers would have been much preferred. Even just empty shelves would have been better, that drawer is very awkward.