The desk is nice when you get it together, especially if you like a visual simplicity. The holes for assembly are predrilled and the drawers should slide in and out easier than they do, if everything is lined up. The directions for assembly that we received were in Chinese and the drawer slides were time consuming to figure out, the pictures for assembly were not great. If you buy this desk, make sure you have extra time to figure it out, having a friend to help makes it go a little easier too!