I'm not going to lie, when I unpacked the box and saw all the pieces I thought oh what did I get myself into!  I put it together, by myself, in less than 3 hours.  The instructions were amazing - the back of the pieces, i.e. screws, washers, etc. had the name and part number on it so you didn't have to keep flipping to the page listing all the items to figure out if you had the right part - genius!