I wasn't very happy with the shipping.  I opened the box and the Styrofoam was very broken.  It was so bad that I had Styrofoam balls sticking to the wooden pieces and when I pulled the wooden pieces out of the box, Styrofoam flew everywhere.  One of the legs had a weird crack in the shape of a circle (picture shown).  I made sure to face that toward the wall so it doesn't show.  

This was fairly easy to put together.  I did it in less than 30 minutes (I'm a 56 year old woman).  I'm happy with the end result....it fits perfectly and goes well with my other furniture.  It's a sturdy piece of furniture.