This cat tree is pretty simple to set up. There's only one little plittlwith instructions tthati almost threw away but really if you have any assembly logic you don't need them to set this up. My kitten loves it ananwas trying to play on it during assembly. I would have liked it to have carpet on the underside of the platforms but that's just me nitpicking. All in all it does the job and for a good price. I would have paid x3 as much if I had bought this from my local petco.