Once together the desk is nice and of good quality.  It is what we were looking for.  Unfortunately putting it together was a long painful experience.  Several holes did not even closely line up to put screws in.  You could tell the manufacturer knew this as they had tried to drill larger holes.  We ended up drilling our own holes on the legs (carefully as the wood does split) and using heavy duty double stick tape in two places. It took hours.  In one case the holes did not match the written directions given but that was easy to figure out.  I like the desk but would not order it again due to the assembly issues.