This was one of the most difficult furniture assembly processes I've even encountered, and I've assembled a lot of furniture. The instructions were not always clear, there were extra pieces, you had to make your own holes for some things and some things that could have been intuitive weren't because the steps did not have a good flow. Overall, something that I thought would only take a couple hours to put together took almost 10 with breaks to breathe through the frustration. The end result looks pretty but we ended having to improvise and not follow the remaining instructions in order to get it finished.