I ordered this for my daughter's 13th birthday for a room makeover and she loved it.  The boxes arrived on time and with no damaged pieces.  In a previous post I'd read it taking about four hours to assemble.  So far I'm just over half way done and this seems like its going to be pretty accurate but the directions are included in each box and pretty easy to follow.  Overall, I think this has been a great buy, very sturdy and we'll get several years of good use out of it.