Contrary to the reviews, this dresser didn't take me and my husband forever to do--maybe 3 hours? (Which sounds long, but it's a GREAT rate for our furniture-assembling level hahaha) The instructions for assembly are hard to understand at first, but once you kind of "learn the language," it's fine. The finish is beautiful and I love looking at it, but it does seem very fragile. I always feel like I have to be very gentle when I pull on the drawers, and the face of one keeps popping off whenever I pull on it, no matter how gentle I am. All in all, it's definitely NOT the kind of furniture you want to keep forever, but for new home-makers like us, it does the job just fine until we can afford a better one. Like I said, the product is lovely--I LOVE the gray--but you do get what you paid for!