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4.5
I'll start off by saying, I have no idea what people are talking about in other reviews regarding the instructions. Every single bag is labeled and you literally just follow step by step. Unless you're a Neanderthal, it's pretty straight forward. One person is mentioning Allen screws, there are no Allen screws. Another guy complains about the tools and screw holes. The tools I received worked fine (no, they aren't fancy, but worked fine), and all of the screw holes lined up fine and were visible without any additional lighting. Maybe he has vision problems and can't see what is clearly a hole drilled into particle board. Another person mentions bending the brackets with pliers to separate the brackets lol!?!? Why would you ever do that? The easily come apart if you bend the plastic release down.....like it is intended to do. Who knows, maybe mine came with better tools and instructions. But it is pretty much like any other piece of furniture in terms of assembly.Cons: four big errors in design, hence 4 stars. 1) the keyboard tray is nowhere near the size shown in the picture. It is just wide enough to fit a full size keyboard. Your mouse cannot sit next to it.2) the drawers and scanner platform do not reach the back of the cabinet. Why? There is plenty of space...several inches in fact. This means there is a bunch of dead space behind the drawers, which means all of your items can and probably will fall behind them from time to time. You also cannot fit a normal ream of paper in the drawers because they are not deep enough.3) the desk should be an inch or so taller. It's kind of short, again for no reason. Only two of the pieces would need to change size to add the extra height- the back pieces and posts which hold the top on. Everything else could remain exactly the same size. Why skimp on it?4) there are no cable holes and grommets where the tower is supposed to sit, even though it is shown in the picture. If you want them, you'll need to buy them and drill the holes yourself.Overall, for a budget desk it will do the job. It seems to be plenty sturdy. Nothing fancy, but holds everything it should (besides paper in the drawers).I had high hopes for this computer desk as the picture looked really great. I kept those hopes while opening the boxes (there are two of them, but you don't know that before hand). Then I saw the assembly instructions! I gave them a minus 1 rating for the following reasons:1. The part list is in very small type with tiny pictures that show all of the different pieces looking about the same size, Wrong!2. The assembly instructions leave a lot to be desired... for example, they show the drawer sliders as N1 and N2, but the slides come already put together so you cannot tell what is N1 and what is N2. The intent (after spending 30 minutes) trying to figure this out) is that you have to take the assemble apart, using a pliers to bend out the end flap so you can slide the pieces apart.3. Once you have the pieces apart, you still do not know which is which, because (you guessed it!) they are not marked. The only way to tell is by putting each piece alongside the drawer piece and noticing that the wider slide does not fit on the drawer piece.4.Now the instruction tell you to put the N2 piece onto the iron piece that is screwed to the bottom of the top piece. Again, the pictures are so small, you cannot see which end goes to the front of the top and which goes to the back. If you are not familiar with how a drawer glide works, you will probably put the piece on backwards!5. Rather than describing each piece, the instructions only give you each pieces' number (connect No. 5 with No.7 and No. 8 board, etc). This would be okay IF whoever packaged the pieces, took enough time to be sure that the stickers actually stuck to each piece, and did not get scraped off during packaging. I had 5 pieces that either had no sticker or the sticker was partially scrapped off so I could not determine what the number was.I could go on with the rest of the problems, but suffice it to say that it is more of the same...small pictures that are not clear; not telling you which end goes to the front and which goes to the back; and the like.6. The raised platform on the right side of the desktop is supposed to be used for a printer. Good luck with that! My HP envy printer balanced so precariously on the platform that I had to remove it for fear it would fall on the floor. I now use the platform for my paper clip and pen containers.If you are looking to have a computer desk with a large work area...this is NOT the desk for you! The top is small and the knee area is tight...just wide enough for you to fit a keyboard in between the two sides. The two drawers are small, so you would only be able to put some small items in them such as stapler, paper clips; pens, etc. It would probably be suitable for a student's work area.Love this deck. Has a chilled piece and they promptly sent a new one
