It’s gorgeous and quite sturdy. It came (mostly) assembled had to put the feet on. It was a huge heavy box but well packed. I do wish the carving was at least on 2 of the other sides, not only on one side. After we unpacked it we left it on the porch to air out because there was an odor from the finish, but that went away. (Purchased it on sale  within 2 days, it dropped another 80. I asked if they would honor the price drop but they would not.) The only way would be to return this one  buy the lower priced one but that’s way too much work  waste of my time. I’m pleased with the purchase. Would have been much happier if they honored their sales price.