Very beautiful piece and sturdy. Despite this, I still need to give this three stars solely for difficulty in assembly. The directions leave a lot to be desired. The only saving grace is that my husband and I have assembled many items and were able to figure things out intuitively. Even so, it took us over two hours and at one point we had to disassemble a section and reassemble because the directions don’t indicate in some places which direction a cross piece needs to be facing and you don’t realize it’s wrong until the next step in the directions don’t work. Otherwise, a lovely piece that we love.