When I received this table, I did not care about the tempered glass etching because it is small, plus I placed the table so that corner is further away from our sofa. However, the thing I dislike about this table is the assembly. It would have been impossible for me to assemble since the black metal legs were not fitting into the gray connector. My boyfriend had to put a towel over the metal and hammer the legs into the gray connector. It took him about an hour and he was exhausted when he was done. Then we had to take a utility knife and cut away the gray plastic that had peeled out from the hammering. We were assembling it exactly as directed, so I am not sure why it was so difficult. Maybe our was not made to the exact specifications or was a defective item. But now it looks great.