This item took me about 3 hours to assemble and I am pretty efficient. Assembled it looks great, but up close you can see a lot of dents and dings in the engineered wood. You get what you pay for I guess, but I was surprised to see how beat up it was despite intact and undamaged packaging - my guess is somewhat careless handling when being packaged by manufacturer. I'd still recommend it but definitely have your matching furniture wax pencil on hand for touchups