Beck Children’s 3-Piece Pencil Furniture Set – Coat Tree, Bookcase, Desk and Chair

Aveda and Target shopper on Wed, 17th Feb 2010 9:58 pm 



This set is fantastic–brightly colored and simple to assemble with no tools involved; in fact my kid helped place it collectively. My 3 yo likes it, and the color scheme works for boys and girls. We use the desk drawer to store pencils and pens, and the shelves hold her papers, workbooks, etc. The coat tree is like a bonus. We were going to go with a more expensive brand, but she loved the colors and the pencil legs on this one. She is thrilled to be able to do “her work” on it.

I only give it 4 stars because as for roughness, it’s excellent but not perfect. The legs on the desk did seem a tad rickety, but that could be our hardwood floors (but also, what do you expect for $59 for the total set?) It’s about as durable and nice as Ikea, but simpler to assemble, IMHO, and nicer wood. The desk drawer has fallen out a couple of times, but that’s no huge deal. Did I mention that it arrived in less than 3 days, even with the free shipping? Overall, I am very satisfied as this has a lot of bang for the buck.
Rating: 4 / 5

daysleeper on Thu, 18th Feb 2010 12:44 am 



I found this set on sale for $24.99 a few days before Christmas, and I prearranged one for my 21-month-ancient son and one as a gift for another baby. I threw in one other small item on each order to get the free shipping, because otherwise shipping cost more than the furniture itself.

I received it on Christmas Eve in excellent condition and was able to place it collectively quickly, despite “instructions” that are severely lacking: it was just one page with a picture of each item assembled, with nothing to tell you how many of each piece you should have and nothing labeled, much less any real instruction on which piece goes with what. I was glad I’d taken note of other reviews here, especially the one warning that the two front chair legs are the shorter ones. No tools or supplies are needed to assemble these objects. The finished pieces are a excellent size for my son, and he is enjoying using them.

Some rough measurements: The chair seat is about 9.5 inches from the stump. The table is about 16.5 inches tall. The lowest pegs on the coat rack are about 25 inches from the stump, and the peak are at about 44 inches. The topmost shelf of the bookcase is about 27.5 inches up.

The furniture seems to me to be cheap quality (speaking only as a consumer; I know nothing about furniture-making). I reckon it will stand up well enough to my son’s use of it, but if I had paid the full price of $60 I would have been very miserable when I saw it. I do not reckon it is worth that price, even though you are getting 4 pieces of furniture.

I did have one problem: I was missing 2 pieces for the bookshelf, and so was unable to complete assembly. Really, we had 2 extra chair legs instead. I could not find a way to contact the manufacturer, so I contacted Amazon. That very nocturnal (Christmas Eve), I got a answer from Amazon offering to cover the cost for me to restore the entire set and have a replacement sent to me; they also provided the manufacturer’s address, phone number, fax number, and send by e-mail address. I did not want to disassemble all, ship it all back, and then place it all collectively again; I hoped I could get just the 2 pieces I needed sent to me. I started trying to contact the manufacturer that same nocturnal. I waited longer than I ordinarily would for a response, since it was the holidays. I got no answer at all to 2 emails, so I finally phoned them on January 5th. Thankfully, the first person who answered the phone was wonderfully polite and helpful, and got right on it. Initially she said she would check their stockroom, and if they didn’t have those parts she would have them shipped to me from their factory in China; instead, Beck International paid for Amazon to ship me a total new bookshelf of the same style (which, incidentally, came with better assembly instructions!). That kind of bothered me, because it seemed wasteful. Now I have a bookshelf and a half, and several spare parts. I guess I can’t complain; they did try to make me pleased, once I finally reached them.
Rating: 4 / 5

C. Gonzalez on Thu, 18th Feb 2010 2:12 am 



I am quite pleased with this, it is small, but perfect for my 3 year ancient, I could see it working for 1-4 – but it is working perfectly for what we need – it is holding a Fisher-Price Fun-2-Learn Computer Cool Teach Keyboard and a 19in lcd monitor -

Coat tree came broken and Amazon credited me back the cost of it – so for the pieces i really wanted , all is excellent-
Rating: 4 / 5

Amanda Maynard on Thu, 18th Feb 2010 4:09 am 



The quality of this product is fantastic but it is very very small. The shelves are about as tall as my 19 month ancient (about 33 inches) and the desk chair and desk are a excellent size for him. I bought this originally for my cr?che classroom and I will use the desk as a table but there was no way I could use the chair in the classroom.

I do not reckon that the information about this was misleading – but just not clear. I got it when it was on sale for $24.99- WELL WORTH IT! But it’s currently at [...] and I don’t reckon I would pay that much….
Rating: 4 / 5

C. Williams on Thu, 18th Feb 2010 4:23 am 



my son and i had fun putting this set collectively, it is worth the price and it arrived on time
Rating: 5 / 5

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