Very sturdy and good-looking. It has a rustic vibe but is a very nice pretty piece of furniture. What I did not appreciate from the online pictures is that there is a metal flip up pad in the center in the back with a space around it that allows you to easily put your cords and wires through so they are not all over the desk, and even the large chunky ones fit through this grommet very nicely. Even the ones with chunky converters and such fits through here easily and nicely. The surface is an unfinished wood so there is texture to it that might be a problem if you were trying to write on a paper directly on the wood, in that case you may need a pad of some sort to avoid getting bumps in what you write. But for the computer it has been absolutely perfect.