Beautiful piece, but took 6+ hours to put together! There were several things that could've made the process faster: 1) The pieces in the 3 boxes that arrived were not labeled to match the instructions! I had to go lay out the pieces and visually match the pieces to the numbers in the instructions using sticky notes. Took about an hour to go through everything to get it organized. 2) Instructions were very overwhelming (26+ steps! Yikes). 

Definitely not a piece for those who shy away from complicated projects. I wish I had known this prior to spending the money on this piece. I assumed that due to the cost, the assembly would not be so terrible.