Definitely a 2 person job.  My husband overlooked an important step early on which caused us to have to spend a lot of time reversing the work.  Otherwise I think it would have been easy to build.  It has a lot of the lock screws which takes forever to take off.  Looks beautiful and seems to be high quality but I do have a bulldog so I will have to make several modifications to the crate.  Otherwise this masterpiece will be all chewed up.