Pottery Barn Kids Desk ---> Do you have one?

[House4Me]

I am leaning towards getting a PBK desk for my kid. I went to a few furniture stores and didn't like anything I saw. The owner of one was telling em how crappy PBK desks are and the drawers don't' glide smoothly, etc…. I think it was a sales tactic but I'm curious how your experience with the desk has been. 

Does the desk arrive put together?

How do the drawers glide? Smooth? 

Can you see drawer gliders on the sides of the drawers? The furniture shop owner told em they are missing this and just have wood cut out to help them glide smoothly??

[mmmomof2]

I got a smaller PB Kids desk as a floor sample, but when we picked it up the store some how damaged it moving it to the loading dock so PBK sent us a brand new one. Score! The drawer was already inserted I think and the legs were on, but maybe I'm remembering wrong. It's the desk in the link below, but we added a hutch. The hutch had to be attached.

www.potterybarnkids.com/products/whitney-writing-desk-and-hutch/?pkey=e%7Cwriting%2Bdesk%7C5%7Cbest%7C0%7C1%7C24%7C%7C2&group=1&sku=4658886&cm_src=PRODUCTSEARCH||NoFacet-_-NoFacet-_-NoMerchRules

The drawer glides smooth enough, but it's definitely not great quality. You can't see the gliders. For the price though I don't expect it to last forever.

I will say I bought it in a tizzy before DD started Kindergarten for homework, but she pretty much only worked at the kitchen table. It does look nice in her room though, lol.

[House4Me]

I just want to update my own post.

After searching for 3 weeks for a good quality desk we settled on the Madeline at Pottery Barn Kids. I went to the store to see all the floor samples -- I was really surprised at the varying quality of every desk. For example, the Juliette desk was more expensive and pretty but the drawers were terrible with gliding. Also it had a painted wood look vs a smooth finish that I was after. Another desk from the Teen collection was great, on sale for $899 but the drawers sucked again. I was really surprised at just the varying drawer glide mechanisms for all of their desks.

So we got the Madeline and a desk chair, I switched out the plain Madeline knobs for pretty glass knobs that dazzled it up a notch for a little girls room. I plan to get a piece of tempered glass made to put over the top of the desk to prolong it's beauty against crayons/markers/etc.