It's gorgeous once installed, but be warned if you're a DIYer, it is not a simple assembly. You will need metal drill bits for the back plate that fit your screws. You'll need to Pre drill each hole before trying to get a weight bearing screw in there. And that means drilling into your support structure to make sure your in a stud, measuring to match up with the mantle back piece, and then drilling out the metal for each hole. we upgraded the screws just to be sure that they could take the load and that they fit the drill bit, because the instructions do not specify this little detail (screw size). Once all the drilling is done, it's a slide on for the main mantle piece, which is the easy part. But it would have been very nice to know what we were getting into before install.