This is a beautiful table! Unfortunately, the gears on the inside did not function. After we tried opening the table to insert the leaf, the gears on the inside prevented us from closing the table again. (The table top "stuck" and would not slide back over the gears.) We were able to remove the gears and still use the table. We had been looking for an extendable table like this for a long time, so we decided to keep it. However, the functionality was a bit disappointing for the price.