If you are not confident in your furniture assembly skills you absolutely need to pay for assembly because this is a bear to put together. It’s beautiful when assembled but it comes in three boxes with one set of instructions in one box so if that’s the box that arrives last then you are out of luck. There is a single page of instructions without any written instructions, just pictures. Without a drill (screwdriver and the included Allen wrench) this took me about 4 hours to put together and I consider myself to be good at assembling furniture normally

UPDATE
There aren’t enough center supportsslats. We’ve been using this for just shy of seven months and the inner supports are completely shot. It was cute while it lasted but we’re going to get something else