Great product. The top lifts perfectly. And looks very nice in person as well. I was able to very carefully assemble this myself without causing any damage. But yeah another pair of hands would definitely help. The only annoying thing was all the polystyrene in the packaging. It was a pain to clean up afterwards as it broke into tiny pieces and were everywhere. If it instead used spacers and other packaging materials made of cardboard like other furniture manufacturers do that would have been convenient and more environment friendly.