This lamp was incredibly difficult to put together! I'm no novice at building furniture, but the construction of this lamp is such that at least two people are needed to put it together. Or one extremely strong person with an advanced engineering degree. An enormous amount of floor space is also required. One of the "arms" of the lamp broke off when I was putting it together, and I needed to ask a friend to come over and adjust the (now broken) lamp so that it was no longer crooked. I actually like how my two tiered lamp looks now, but it was an extremely frustrating process getting to this point.