This is a beautiful piece of furniture.  Very elegant and much better than expected.  Unfortunately the first box was damaged but Wayfair immediately sent another one and it was packed very well and undamaged.  I hired someone to put it together and it took them about 2.5 hours.  It went together very well.  I haven't used the fireplace yet, but it is lovely.  All in all, I'm extremely pleased.  It is distressed so at first I thought there were paint flaws.  if it bothers you, you can paint them out.  I might do that at some point.  It's great for showing off my pottery collection.