The end result is a really beautiful gazebo.  Unfortunate my husband and I are very much less than handy and can not follow direction all that well so we had a lot of steps to redo.  For people who are even remotely handy assemble should be easy.  We had a point in the assembly when we realized that the gazebo was going to be too big to fit inside our screened lanai (totally my fault for measuring incompletely.). Customer service was wonderful and offered to have the boxes picked back up with no restocking fee.  This says a lot about the company and their dedication to customer satisfaction.  We were able to find another location to home our gazebo and look forward to getting a lot of use out of it in the years to come.  I would definitely recommend this product to my friends.