It came in two boxes and when put together the desk is great, just what I needed but I would NOT buy it again. It came in 30 different pieces and while I'm extremely handy, it was a nightmare to put together. I don't think ikea building it that bad but this was 10x worse. I had to label my own pieces! They were so lazy (the manufacture) they wouldn't even give me the courtesy of labeling the pieces I needed to put together. I took over 3 hours with the help of three different people. the directions are horrible!!!