Although this hall tree looks nice, it was very difficult to assemble. They say that no tools are required on the manual, each piece had hooks that were supposed to slide into holes of an adjacent piece. Since this is all metal, the manufacturers managed to make some hooks to tight and some holes were closed in so it was impossible to slide one piece into another and put it together. We had to pry it apart to make this pieces fit. It was unnecessarily hard and if I would have know that it would be this difficult I wouldnt have purchased it