Easy to assemble by myself, I thought I would need my husband to help with the drawers, but I figured it out. It holds my shoes and kids shoes well, but my husbands gym shoes barely fit in this. I bought it to keep his shoes from cluttering the entry way and to hide them but this doesn’t seem to be the solution. It is nice and looks really good in our entryway so no fault to this item for not solving the unsightly problem of my husbands shoes all over.