This desk surprised me as I was a bit skeptical. I was concerned with a few negative reviews, but held my breath, and it arrived in one piece. The desk is quite heavy (needed both of us to put it together). It arrived safely and there were no knicks or cracks or anything of concern. It took about six weeks to arrive, which was the only downside.
While I'm able to get the wires through the top of the desk designed to make the wires more discreet, sadly, it doesn't eliminate them, so I still have wires on top of my desk from my computer and other devices. One thing I wish the desk had was hooks underneath to hold the wires in place. Right now they hang down and it's unsightly. I mainly got this desk to help organize all the wiring and it didn't accomplish what I had hoped in that department.
Everything else was as described and I like that at the end of the day I can close up the keyboard tray and it looks neat. The drawers are functional as is the file draw. The shelves on the side are quite small and won't hold large upright books; items other than pictures and small books will stick out. The shelves are adjustable, but they are a pain because you have to unscrew them. The shelves in the front of the desk with the doors are also just for looks and aren't that functional. One picture in the description shows a laptop on a shelf, but I realized that must have been a pretty small laptop, because the shelves are for small items as well. Think CD and that's about the size for all the shelves.
The delivery was fine and although the boxes looked a little beaten, the desk wasn't damaged.
