I am so pleased with this gazebo! It's exactly what I wanted. I had read reviews in advance that said the directions were hard-to-see and understand diagrams and no written instructions so I hired a licensed contractor to install it so he would have no problem figuring out how to do it even if the instructions were not helpful. He agrees with the other reviews: hard to understand diagrams. It wasn't clear in several places that you had to do one step before the other and he had to take some things apart and do it right. He took one afternoon to get it all laid out and familiarize himself with all the parts, and then put in a full day with a helper the next day.