Easy to put together.  Looks great.  It did take 2 of us to put together so that 1 person could hold the center and the other could screw in the arms of the light at the correct angle.  I recommend wearing gloves with grip, otherwise your hands will just continue to glide over the arms and not really "grab" them to screw them in to the center.  Fixture looks great--exactly the look we were going for in our breakfast area.  We used the larger bulbs with the fixture and made it look even larger.