I’m going to be frank, I hate assembling furniture so already I’m not headed for being impressed. It took my sister and I maybe 3-4 hours to assemble this thing. Ugh. I would pay for assembly if you hate assembling this type of thing. There are a LOT of parts. 
The instructions were.... not super clear at times, but the pictures are good. Some of the assembly parts didn’t line up well for me, we did manage to get them to line up but it’s def a two person job. 
The end result looks nice and doesn’t feel super cheep like something you would get at Walmart. 
I think this has been a less on for me to just pay for assembly, i really wouldn’t want to build this again...