Purchased this for my daughters bedroom and was so excited when it arrived.  We noticed a strange odour as soon as we opened the box and before putting it together we thought that it would help if we aired it out for a few days before putting it together. We decided to go ahead with putting it together and my husband felt the instructions were easy to follow and the piece looked nicer than expected. We moved it in to my daughters room and still can’t get over the smell. It is a very chemical smell and we have done everything we can think of to get rid of the smell as it is over powering in my daughters room. I don’t know if we just got a lemon or if this is the norm but unfortunately even several weeks in the smell lingers and we had to move it out of the room.