I honestly would not have been able to put this together if my mom weren't there to basically do it all for me.  I read the reviews and was skeptical but then I remembered my mom was a mechanical engineer so I told her how awful other people have said it was and she said just buy it and we'd figure it out.  It took about 3 hours.  The paper is ridiculous.  The wood and drawer pieces weren't labeled which was kind of weird.  And there was a lot of drilling holes involved but it wasn't that bad.  It just takes patience and someone who's good at math.  My drawers work great and I think it looks good in my tiny studio apt.  Also we ended up with a ton of excess screws and knobs and what not.  I'm not too worried about it.