Assembled it drunk, was able to do it myself but I'm built diffy so take it as you will. If you can drag the thing into your place, then you can build it yourself. Sat on top of it to test its strength and it was pretty solid (I am 170 lbs). Had a couple of scratches but they are not noticeable depending on how you building it. So, if it were without the scratches, would've been a 5/5 but I will have to rate it a 4/5 for now.