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4.5
Presently I can't add pictures, as I just moved and so it's in pieces from that still. However, I am coming up on almost a year of having this desk and it's a pretty damn good desk. I'll try to be as unbiased as possible:PROS:- STURDY. Once it's fully put together and everything's tightened down, it ain't moving. Even me sitting on it (I'm ~210 lbs, 5'7'' ish) or putting my full weight on it, it doesn't seem to buckle it. If you try to shake it or wiggle it, no movement. That's also with my desktop, two monitors, and all my crap packed on it as well.- LOTS of desk space. I fill it pretty fast but that's just because I'm a pretty cluttered person, but as far as needing desk space, I've honestly got more than I need with it right now.- BIG. My fiance and I just started measuring to figure out where we're going to put this and it's a bit bigger than I remembered it being. If you put it in an angle shape, you'll need about 5ft of clearance on either side for it to fit comfortably. If you stretch it out so you can fit two computers at it, you'll need around 8ft. It might not seem super big to someone, but this was my upgrade from a 2ft desk, so it's huge to me.- Easy to assemble, but it does take a little bit because there's so many parts to it. The instructions were also frustratingly unclear to me, but I'm also not a very handy or mechanically inclined person by nature. I got about 80% of it on my own, and then had my fiance do the last 20% of it on his own. (He got the last bit of it done way faster than it took me to do the majority of it, so if you're more handy than I, it'll probably go really fast for you.)CONS:- HEAVY. This might be a pro, depending on how you look at it. But like I said, once it's put together and set down, it ain't moving. That includes if you wanted to pick it up and move it somewhere. Once it's set, it's set, so make sure you have it where you want it, or some disassembly might be needed to rearrange.- Storage is lacking a bit on the underside. It comes with shelving on at least two sides, which is nice, but one of them is placed directly under the back corner of the desk if you put it together in an angle, which makes id difficult and/or impossible to reach if you're putting this in the corner of a room. If you're like me, and you also planned to put your computer on one of the shelves to save yourself a bit of desk space or legroom, then beware - you won't be able to fit the second shelf that's supposed to slot in on it. I just moved it over to the other side of shelving, but it puts that last shelf uncomfortably close to the underside of the desk and you can't really store anything there.- As I said above, the instructions are a little vague. Mostly pictures and arrows pointing at where things should go with little explanation of what you're actually doing or what pieces go where. As long as you're at least semi-decent at reading between the lines (pictures, that is) you should be able to get the grasp of it, but there was definitely some Putting Stuff Where It Didn't Go, Then Getting Frustrated And Taking It Back Apart To Put It Together Correctly happening for me.Extra notes from my order:- Some of the pieces were nicked and scratched when I got them, but it's not very noticeable. (Very, VERY insignificant scratches compared to the actual size of the desk.) They can be a bit distracting if you know where they are and they bother you, but they're also very easy to hide.- They do not send a lot of extra screws/pieces with the desk. I got the bare minimum of what I needed and maybe 2 spare screws that were for one part of the desk specifically - and you get like 4-5 different sets of screws and hardware with this desk, so that wasn't super helpful. Make sure you keep track of all your pieces, because if you lose one, you might be in for a trip to the hardware store.
