Oh boy! I would suggest you pay for the assembly because I’ll have fun with this one. I will try to update this as soon as I get it assembled but the wooden slats seem well, and I liked the smell when I opened the box and it was packaged nicely. Update I did in fact have a blast putting this together, it was fairly easy but yeah, pay for the assembly if you don’t like working with your hands (PS, it says not to use a drill but I in fact did!)