We decided to put this together ourselves, you know, as a family. Since we didn't have enough going on both being essential workers(who knows how long this term will be relevant?), having a 5yr old tornado(human child) and 2 fur-children (plus the one we were pet-sitting=3), we thought this would be cake. The instructions did not read well in certain instances (missed measurements, 1-2 vague explanations which caused a re-do, etc). There were some holes that were not pre-drilled and we did come up short on a few pieces of hardware but nothing we didn't have on hand. My husband was the true champ doing the most of the manual labor and he was definitely pleased with my purchase. I was very pleased with the Wayfair staff who helped from day one of my purchase(coupon issue), kept me updated and the delivery company, but I'm just the $ and beverage refresher in this operation.