This is a beautiful desk. We hired the assembly company because it came in so many wood pieces and pegs to be hammered in. Like all the knockdown furniture we have ordered in the past few years, some of the pieces were defective, but only a small one in the front dividing two drawers is noticable and can be touched up with a dab of paint. This piece is too short and doesn't meet the cross piece of wood above which leaves its raw end exposed. The purpose of this desk is to help organize the mess on my husband's big, older desk top. The two biggest drawers at the bottom row holds his laptop and his guitar music, so he is thrilled.  We added two rustic style wooden boxes underneath on the floor for overflow music and this sight has transformed his office as it sits diagonally in corner opposite the door.