Venture Horizon Mobile Desk & Craft Center - Oak

I have a small home with no room for a permanent sewing desk. When I wanted to sew on a project, I'd have a card table up in the living room for days. An annoyance to everyone. This is the perfect compromise. I pull it out when I need it and it stores by my baby's crib when I don't. Love it!!!

I recently moved into a small one-bedroom apartment and ordered this fold--down desk to be used for a sewing machine. I am an avid quilter and was looking for space-saving items. The one big issue I had is that only four of the five drawers would go in - the other is going to have to be sanded down along both sides of the top, thus removing the black paint. Because I am disabled and live alone, I am waiting for one of my children to find time to fix the drawer for me. Right now it is just sitting on the floor beside my mobile desk. Not much of a space saver at this time.

Wife wanted a convenient and compactable unit to use as a sewing table ... she's pleased with this unit. Comment ... user should be advised to have on hand at assembly an ample supply of wood glue. That supplied with the kit is not nearly enough for all the suggested glue joints. This unit is pretty cleverly thought out ... you won't need access to a wood worker shop to get it assembled.

As much money as you pay it looks like the desk would have had more screws to hold it together. Honestly the whole side with the drawers are basically held together by glue. They give you this 1oz bottle of glue and expect you to glue the whole thing together. That thing set in my living room floor for two days until I had time to go to the store to buy more glue so I could finish putting it together. After it was put together, the desk is fairly nice but for 130.00 it should have been better constructed than it was. The drawers--completely held together by glue, small screws hold the handles on but the entire drawer is nothing but glue, so forget putting anything heavy in them.

This piece is decent for the price. It's not the sturdiest, but you get what you pay for. The wood and assembly pieces are Ikea-grade, so if you assemble it correctly and treat it gently I'm guessing it will hold up over time (we shall see). Two issues: 1. The assembly is more time-consuming than most Ikea furniture. It two me about 2 or 2.5 hours. I don't like that it requires wood glue. Speaking of wood glue, make sure you have some because they do not provide nearly enough. 2. With the side table up, it doesn't seem to stay locked in place if you try to move the desk. With that, if you are clever I'm sure you can figure something out to keep it in place better. Overall, it has good functionality with the space-saving aspect and all, but don't expect it to last an eternity.

This desk is constructed of cheap material and is poorly designed as well. The drawers are all a cardboard type material that is glued together and slid into slots with splines glued to the case serving as "drawer slides". They were difficult to slide into the case even while empty. The picture is not accurate - there is another "wing" on the other side, putting the drawers in the center - not optimal for a desk configuration. The horizontal panel in the back that holds the end panel in place as shown is hinged is flimsy, and the hinges are screwed into particle board - what is the life expectancy of THAT? We purchased this for one of our children as a student desk in our new house. It is a complete disappointment - frankly, we did not even finish the construction of the second wing and trashed the entire thing. We were hesitant when we started to un-box the components, but hoped that it would look better when assembled - big mistake. We should had returned it. This item may have been appropriate at 1/3 the price as a low-budget choice. Far better options can be purchased for the same money.

I'm sure glade I have a shop full of tools to get this thing together it took about 2 hours for me not counting the time it took the glue to dry overnight lol

This desk is large enough to sit and write out some bills and then folds in half and can be pushed out of the way. Exactly what I needed.