Easy to put together by myself. Wasn't crazy about the bronze color and was worried about rusting from reading other reviews so I sanded the entire thing with a 220 grit paper, cleaned it all off and sprayed with Rustoleum's best primer and then 3 top coats of their best flat black paint. I set the arbor in concrete otherwise the theres no way the gates would come even close to being lined up; even set in concrete the gates don't close perfectly, but good enough considering no one will probably open them anyway, but rather just walk around the arbor in my case. Over all I'd recommend this arbor as a very good buy.