Took longer/more complicated to put together than expected compared to a lot of other furniture with similar attributes but was still easy. However, this is NOT sturdy, the legs on all the chairs, especially the bench wobble. Within a year of owning a friend leaned back a little fast in the chair and created a crack along the back leg. Wood glue wasn't able to fix it because one of the helicoil inserts keeps popping out now. For the price, I expected more.