It too my husband and I about 4 hours to complete. You need 2 people for sure! Glad I read other reviews about doing the fireplace first. Take out the styrofoam and put the crystal rocks in first or you will be taking it apart as you build it around the fireplace. Everything looks great. Only complaint is the lights under the shelf that you stick on there is 2 issues. First issue, don’t pull the blue piece of stuff off the lights too fast or your whole sticky tape comes off as well and second issue is your remote for the lights only work if you stand right next to the stand so it defeats the purpose of having a remote. Otherwise very happy!