I will say I love the design of this desk - the L-shape, the abundant writing surface, the practical shelves and drawers.  The shelves and drawers are very usable - except the drawers in the hutch, that is.  Those drawers are not on a track, so in reality they are just boxes that sit inside the cubby, which does not make them very user-friendly.  The color is my biggest disappointment.  I paid the extra $9 for the "natural" color, which looked warm in tone and honey-like in color in the picture.  It was definitely not a warm color, and I don't think it matched the picture at all.  I would have returned it if the thought of repackaging and shipping a DESK wasn't so daunting - I could hardly get the boxes off my front step and into my entry way to begin with.  And for $400, the product itself is cheap to the touch.  It feels sturdy once assembled, but the surfaces feel cheap (this must be the lowest-quality laminate I have ever come into contact with).