Da Vinci Children's Art Desk White Steel Frame, Wood Top and Seat

This is an terrific product good looking, made of solid materials and designed to grow with your child. All that at a great price. My 6-year-old son loves it for art projects and schoolwork. It was a terrific addition to our family room. Be forewarned, however, that the assembly process is no fun. Some of the pre-drilled holes were misaligned, and the instructions were not at all clear.

Desks for schoolchildren are surprisingly hard to find in the U.S. Maybe I was not looking well enough, but products I was coming across were either computer desks or cheap plastic tables or art-and-craft rotating tables, but nothing that represented a traditional school desk with angled surface. Then I came across this desk, which comes with its own chair. It looks very similar to a German StepByStep desk made by VS Moebel (google for it). The German product is not available in the U.S., so this Da Vinci desk seemed the next best thing, and I bought it.

Pros:

The desk is adjustable for height and surface angle. The chair is adjustable for height. The laminated surface is reasonably durable unless your child tries writing on it with a ballpen. There is a round holder that can be used for a plastic cup filled with pencils and pens. There is also a holder for a single pen. A stopper at the closest end of the working surface prevents books and papers from sliding down. The edge of the desk is trimmed with rubber.

Cons:

It was not low enough for my 5-year old, but my son is growing up fast, so currently he does not need a foot-step anymore. The seating surface of the chair is too deep, so the back is too far from my son when he sits upright, I attached a soft pillow to the seat back.

The horizontal and the angled portions of the desk are connected with a piece of rubber, not with a metal hinge, so potentially this construction is not very robust. On another hand, you would not be adjusting the desk for angle very often, because it is quite hard to do, a child cannot do it for sure, a parent must do it by literally hitting the surface from below to make it move. Not a biggie, but unlike the German product that can be adjusted by a child, this one cannot (depends on a child, of course).

Building it together was a bit complicated. You need to have basic tools like a screwdriver, a wrench and a hammer. Without using a hammer you will have hard time tightening the bolts with flat head used in the chair. Maybe you can use an electric drill with a socket, but I did not have it. The holes in the seating surface and the back of the seat are round, but the bolts have square necks to ensure they are sitting in the holes and not moving. Trying to tighten them without hammering them first into the holes proved unsuccessful, the bolts would rotate and not sit it the hole. Bottom line: you will need some strong hands to build together the chair. The desk itself can be put together almost effortlessly, save for couple of bolts with broken thread.

The desk surface was chipped on the reverse side, no one sees it from above, but this says enough about quality control and means of production. I did not bother replacing it, after all it does not affect the functionality.

Overall:

All it all, this is a decent desk and chair that can grow with your child. You just need to go through some frustration while you assemble it.

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I love this desk and chair set it's exactly what I was looking for.

Only downside is the assembly of the set. It was very difficult to put together.

But if you have patience it's actually worth it.

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We ordered 2 of these desk/chair sets for our growing children. They arrived promptly, easy to assemble and worth the $119 price.However we did have shipping issues in that the pencil tray is cracked in one and the laminate in some places chipped.They were shipped in their original boxes without additional padding and must have gotten banged up.I still love them and the adjustability is wonderful for as they grow.

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