First, the FedEx delivery was trying at best since this shipment kept getting rescheduled for a week.  Finally I got the Cat Tree and took it out of the box.  One of the hanging ball toys immediately came apart!  I assembled it anyway; the brown color was very attractive though, and realized it was much smaller than it looked on the web site.  I immediately noticed also, from the smaller house, that this item was going to be way too small for my 6 yr old, 19lb male feline.  He immediately jumped upon the highest platform and began playing with the ball-less string like the kitten he thinks he is.  This Cat Tree is very attractive but more for Kittens than for Cats.  It is also too horizontal not lending much to graduated platform access.  I will be returning it sadly.