First plan on a couple of hours to assemble this. All the pieces fit together perfectly. Everything lined up great. I was really happy with this purchase until the two sided tape that holds the lights to the base started falling off. The next morning the end of the light strand was laying on the floor. The other issue I had was that the remote stopped working two days after I put it together. Had to unplug to to shut it off, Sure it's just a dead battery but still for the price they could make sure that it had a fully charged and new battery, Useless without a working remote.