Assembly was straightforward, although it did take a while with all the different parts. The screens look good. We were worried the faux wood would look too fake, but it looks good in the gray. I would avoid placing the screen beside real wood, though, to avoid highlighting that it's fake. We bought two screens and placed them side by side along our patio to screen our AC unit, weighed down with bags of rocks temporarily. Strong winds blew them over, so we drilled extra holes in the bottoms of the planters to add trampoline stakes before planting in them. This seems to have worked to keep them stable.