The desk is absolutely beautiful once put together - shelves are great, wonderful size, very ascetically pleasing! However it is quite difficult to put together - as a novice it took me several (maybe five) hours, as none of the parts are labelled and so so much time is therefore taken up just trying to find the right piece, or taking something apart once you've figured out it is wrong, and have to start over. I love the item, but would really recommend to Wayfair they improve their instructions!