The desk is super cute and my daughter loves it. Only two issues we had were first there were several black marks on the side. You can’t really see it from where it’s placed in my daughters room but it was unfortunate. And no there was no damage to the box when we opened it. Also, one of the screws that holds the desktop on doesn’t fit properly. The hole was drilled crooked. So we had to bend the screw a little bit to make it fit. Other than that the color is exactly what we imagined and we have a happy teenager (which is a challenging task)!