The desk requires a few hours to put together but if you had two people it may only take an hour or two. The quality is alright, when the desk arrived there was one corner that had been damaged and I was going to send it back but by the time i put the desk together the part damaged was no longer  visible. The directions are irritating to follow but I was able to figure it out. The screws they provided weren't great quality, it made it difficult to screw them in and i had to keep changing the head of my screw driver to try to accommodate  to the shape. I don't use my desk everyday so the quality doesn't upset me too much. But it does its job and has the perfect amount of storage i was looking for. Defiantly a cheaper desk, wouldn't buy again.