Lots of instruction steps! Take your time and it will go together. I gave it 3 stars because the cheap quality drawer hardware caused use a lot of extra time trying to get all 3 drawers to line up properly. In fact with ours we could not get them to line up to the point where it looked OK. So we just installed the center drawer and now use the openings where the other 2 drawers were supposed to be as open shelving. The unit itself looks nice and the size is what we were looking for but we're using it with only one of the 3 drawers because of bad hardware quality.