Wow! You won’t be disappointed with this fireplace. It comes in 2 boxes and one is pretty heavy. Everything is packed well as you can see from photo 2. The firebox is separate. The assembly was made easy by the stickers that marked the number and had an arrow pointing in the direction it went.  They even supplied extra thread replacements incase you needed them, I didn’t. It’s easy enough you can put it together by yourself but I needed help moving it into place. The firebox has so many options for temperature and color, flame type etc. It’s the finishing piece to my office that is so cold in the summer (basement next to AC handler) it’s going to make working so much more fun.