Before purchasing this, I read most of the reviews others had posted and thought it was worth taking a shot on. It is a beautiful piece and comfy but the overall quality isn’t very high. There is a reason furniture like this retails for more at other stores. Sorting the pieces and the directions was fairly straightforward. The problem is in the craftsmanship. You will need a drill- to redrill all of the holes that don’t line up. Having to redrill a hole is kind of ridiculous. Then the screws they give you to hold it together are all Allen wrench type. They are ‘soft’ and strip super easy. The piece does take forever to put together between redrilling holes and trying to make one quarter turn at a time to tighten the screws.