Assembly was pretty straightforward but really the size of the shipping box was about the size of the assembled product. Maybe they should just send it assembled. I give this 3 stars only because the little round adhesive stickers for covering the screws were slightly off-color and so were a little obvious. The product would be very nice if not for these ugly little stickers. My plan is to remove the stickers, putty the screw holes, sand it and repaint it. That’s a lot of effort just to get the product I thought I was buying.