If you order this without assembly, you better have some basic carpentry knowledge, as well as tools, and muscle to back it up.
I have ordered many assembly required furniture pieces over the years and had no problems putting them together, but this is not easy, no this is straight up building, as in dowels, nails, screws, and industrial glue.
I was shocked when I opened the box and realized this was not furniture that needed assembly, but rather all the wood pieces and screws needed to build it.
I started on it and tried my best, but unfortunately the instructions are terrible. In a few places it even has parts mislabeled and tells you to put wrong pieces together, not to mention the order in which it tells you to do things is not the most structurally sound.
I didnt have the muscle to manually screw pieces into un/drilled wood. I had to have my husband, who luckily knows about this stuff and has the muscle to do it take over.
There was no way I would have been able to finish putting it together with these horrible instructions.
Plus drilling into the wood with no predrilled holes and a manual screwdriver is murder on the joints. Luckily we had an electric drill with screw driver bits.
The piece is really lovely, but thank goodness my husband has some basic carpentry skills, cause otherwise it would still be in pieces.
DO NOT order without expert assembly, unless you or someone you know can build this without an instruction manual.
The furniture itself is lovely, and exactly what I was hoping for, I just didnt plan on building it myself.
Build it Yourself Kit with Awful Instructions
If you order this without assembly, you better have some basic carpentry knowledge, as well as tools, and muscle to back it up. I have ordered many assembly required furniture pieces over the years and had no problems putting them together, but this is not easy, no this is straight up building, as in dowels, nails, screws, and industrial glue. I was shocked when I opened the box and realized this was not furniture that needed assembly, but rather all the wood pieces and screws needed to build it. I started on it and tried my best, but unfortunately the instructions are terrible. In a few places it even has parts mislabeled and tells you to put wrong pieces together, not to mention the order in which it tells you to do things is not the most structurally sound. I didnt have the muscle to manually screw pieces into un/drilled wood. I had to have my husband, who luckily knows about this stuff and has the muscle to do it take over. There was no way I would have been able to finish putting it together with these horrible instructions. Plus drilling into the wood with no predrilled holes and a manual screwdriver is murder on the joints. Luckily we had an electric drill with screw driver bits. The piece is really lovely, but thank goodness my husband has some basic carpentry skills, cause otherwise it would still be in pieces. DO NOT order without expert assembly, unless you or someone you know can build this without an instruction manual. The furniture itself is lovely, and exactly what I was hoping for, I just didnt plan on building it myself.