My husband and I sat down at 7:30 to start this project thinking an hour maybe two, would be plenty of time to put this thing together. I regret spending what I did and wish I would have paid double for something already assembled at a furniture store. So many of the pre drilled holes were not lined up properly, had to spend time re-drilling holes, threads on screws were damaged.  I guess you get what you pay for. 4 hours later and still not finished assembling. I also think it's important to point out how extremely handy my husband is, this is not human error, just cheap manufacturing.