"Puzzle" is an understatement

You're probably thinking to yourself, "ooh, what a pretty desk" and you know what, you're right. The "Puzzle Desk" from Crate & barrel is very lovely....but if you purchase and try to assemble this beast, you will come to find out why it was named "Puzzle" because trying to assemble it is on-par with trying to solve a Rubiks Cube if you're color blind!

This desk will taunt you and your inability to assemble it at every turn. It will mock you by not having its parts clearly labeled and, even worse, the desk is in cahoots with the instructions. The how-to diagrams are misleading at best and they tell you to insert wooden dowels where there is no place to insert said dowels.

It was all, "one step forward, three steps back" with this bitch and after three hours of slamming our fingers in drawers, flipping the desk over and around to try and make it line up with the diagram and one small mistake on my part of sliding a drawer side into a slot too early, we finally got 80% of the desk assembled--but the worst part? We still have 20% of that desk to put together and the entire other side, which you see in the diagram is the piece on the right.....oh bother.