I disagree with the people who said the assembly was "easy" but I did most of it by hand with screw drivers and I'm not very good at furniture assembly, so maybe take my experience with several grains of salt. I finally pulled out the drill when some of the holes weren't machined deep enough for some of the screws - this happened probably three times. In general the assembly wasn't that hard, just more involved than I expected. Took me probably two and a half hours? also the wood laminate was wearing off the edge of the door when I took it out of the package - frustrating but not enough to send it back. Now that it's assembled I think it's quite sturdy.