This was one of the items on  my 6 year olds Christmas list to Santa. So on Christmas Eve after I had put my daughter to bed, I set about building it. It was relatively easy to build apart from putting on the skirt.  It was then that I needed G-clamps to position the skirt in place before screwing it onto the bookcase. If there were pilot holes on the skirts to guide you, I would have given 5 stars.