Love this desk! The instructions were fairly easy to follow, even for someone as ‘picture instruction illiterate’ as me. Just make sure you position pieces exactly as shown. A little common sense was involved. I’m a woman and I was able to put this together by myself. Took about 3 hours, but I didn’t pay attention to positioning of pieces and had to take apart and reassemble a section. Grrr. Great quality for the price. Very sturdy.