I've assembled every piece of furniture in my apartment, and this is my far the most complicated one I've done. In total, I think it took me about 7 hours. The part that is most frustrating, though, is that the drawers are very narrow. It's deceiving because the front of the drawers look very wide, but that's aesthetic. There is a bar that goes across, and the height of the actual drawer is only about 2 folded up pairs of jeans. The drawer height is only 5 3/8". I plan on trying to return this, unfortunately.