I've had the cutting table and the matching desk for over a yr now and love them both. there is a lot of room; it is very sturdy. The biggest problem I saw was when people were putting them together they were trying to tighten all of the screws as they went. Being someone who has put many, many things together they key is to only partial tighten the screws as you go (like on each hinge) and once all of the screws are in the hinges then you tighten them up. If you tighten as you go it'll look like the holes don't line up. I put this together by myself and it was very easy. I wouldn't bother buying the large cutting mat that they show with it sometimes because it doesn't self heal and I had hardly used it when I thought all of my rotaries were dull but it was the mat. That was the waste of money because it isn't self healing. I give it top ranking in my book.