For some people, getting to the top of Mount Everest is the height of ambition. For everyone else, it's spending a weekday night putting together a 200 pound tv stand. This will take you 3-5 hours to build. There will be a moment in the instructions where you will wonder what the heck is going on because the holes drilled in the unit don't fit together. If you persevere and ignore that glitch, you will end up with a beautiful tv stand, sans a few twist lock pieces you throw out to make it all work. Thankfully the affected shelf is not visible, and the unit is sturdy enough to go without the extra support.