The directions are almost non existent. The pieces are not marked with the correlating letters and all the pieces look similar. The “directions” are just pictures with no detail. You can’t even see what it is referring to and since they aren’t labeled you are guessing at which piece it even is that you’re supposed to be working with. The “directions” do not specify which dowels to use where and since they all look the same in the pic you don’t know which ones go where. There are almost no words on the directions just terrible pictures. I have put together some very challenging pieces before and I do not even know where to start for this one. If I hadn’t already unpacked the whole thing I would return it as I don’t foresee it being put together correctly anytime soon.