It was a sheer joy to put this together. Dozens of boards all cut with remarkable precision. Hardware all neatly labeled. Aroma of fresh cedar saturating the garage. The directions got a little vague at one or two points, but overall pretty easy to follow. If you screw something up it's super easy to just drill your own holes and keep going. I did this mostly by myself, only 3 steps required my wife to help for a minute. Looks pretty (gosh-darn edt.) good in the back yard as well