I love the style of this desk.  It was easy to put together; HOWEVER, you must be cognizant of which direction to place the short boards in the middle.  I realized way too late that the circular attachment hardware can be seen because I placed the board the wrong way.  Only way to fix this, is to take the whole desk apart and start over.  I  dropped to a 4 star for two reasons...1) directions are pictorial only and hard to decipher, and 2) corner of top of desk was chipped off during shipment.