Pretty easy and quick to assemble (though you have to screw in the legs straight or else they will get very stuck and difficult to remove). The two little shelves are perfect for holding my chargers and tissue box near my bed. I did specifically get a dimmable lightbulb so that the three lighting levels would work, but unfortunately they do not. Perhaps I got the wrong kind of bulb, but a regular dimmable bulb did not work for me! I only get one level of light.