I love this desk so much!!! It’s so beautiful and the quality is really great!!’ Everything but the ladder support is real wood. It was fairly easy to put together. You could probably get by with only one person putting it together but, it’d be faster if you had two. You only need a screw driver for a couple things. Don’t be intimated by the instructions or the amount of pieces. It really is a lot easier than it it looks to put together. For two people, it took about an hour! Love the color of the desk and the whole vibe the desk has!