We bought this as a temporary kitchen table to have while we have little kids in the house. It actually looks really good. The only problem is that if you use the tougher side of the sponge like I did to get sticky stuff off the table it scratches very easily. Also one two year old pretended to "walk his fork around" which left some holes. The wood is just kind of soft but it looks nice and if you don't have a bunch of babies and toddlers shouldn't have these issues.