Ameriwood® Tiverton Computer Workcenter, Expert Plum

great for price- be ready to assemble!

For price (with $30 off of $[...]), this desk can't be beat. It provides a lot of space and stores a lot. We use it in our home office and ...Read complete review

For price (with $30 off of $[...]), this desk can't be beat. It provides a lot of space and stores a lot. We use it in our home office and it's made things much neater and cleaner. There's plenty of work space, wire management holes (that we love-- don't understand why this isn't standard for all desks!), and overall looks great in our guest room/home office. In terms of construction, it's not as solid as I would have hoped. It's mostly particle board which means shelf life is probably limited, but for our purposes and money constraints, it'll do. But just as a contrast, there's a lot of pre-packed furniture out there that's made of more solid wood these days...but of course, they're usually more expensive. This desk is VERY heavy and the design means that there are plenty of supports so it's not flimsy once it's been built-- still moving it around might not be highly recommended and so it'll probably never be moved again. Building the thing was a nightmare-- it took all day and I think two people were definitely required. I am very used to building furniture but I thought this was one of the worst things to build. So here are my suggestions: 1) All the screws and parts came in one big bag so my suggestion is that you take an ice tray and sort out all the screws/bolts so that it's easy to use the right one. Like other reviewers, I was a bit disappointed that the cam screws were plastic, but I had no problems with them. 2) Instead of wood dowels, this thing comes with some plastic kind of thing-- I suggest that you treat them like wood dowels and pound them in the same way versus trying to screw them in like we initially tried to do. 3) We screwed up putting on the back panels (cardboard basically), so make sure the one with the pop-out back goes against the drawer for the CPU. We reversed them and had to cut our own hole in the cardboard (so maybe thankfully, it was cardboard) for the wires...4) We also screwed up on the top shelf of cds, if you want to use the CD dividers that come with the desk, make sure you have the groove lined up facing the top. Since we didn't, we couldn't use the CD dividers, but I didn't want them anyway so no big deal-- we treat it as one more shelf to hold little things and some books.One last thing, in the picture it looks like the desktop might hang over the base a little on the sides-- I was hoping that it did because I wanted it in a particular spot over some baseboard heating-- it doesn't so the base is the same length as the desktop just in case anyone was wondering. However, the desktop does hangover the base in the back to allow for outlets, etc. (great design).All said and done, I gotta say it looks more expensive than it is and works perfectly so I highly recommend it. If you're worried that the hutch isn't very high like I was, it's not, but we're using the top as one more shelf for books and it works perfectly-- being somewhat low means that the books are easily accessible. [...]