Wow, we have put together furniture for years (a lot of it much less expensive than this).  It is unfortunate that we paid so much money for this product for its quality.  Working on the last piece, and so far there has been a hole missing where a dowel was to go into, the instructions (never good with DIYs) is absolutely awful, and don't go by the picture for color...you will be very disappointed!  Labeling was missing on some pieces, and the wood will break very easily.