It took some time to put together but instructions were fairly good and only tool required from you is a screwdriver. You do get what you pay for meaning this table is far from high end and good quality but it is adequate. It looks like described, it goes together nicely and the table functions - extended top, side shelves. My chairs don't sit perfectly level which is disappointing but not a huge variance. Some, quiet a few actually, of the Cam Locks and nuts did not give a tight closure. When you turn it with the screwdriver to tighten you can feel the resistance as it tightens, but on a lot of them you simply turned it till stopped but never felt like it actually tightened into place. And I'm no rookie to DIY assembly or the Cam Lock so I tried every which way to adjust to try to get that tightening resistance feel but there were many it didn't which I feel is because the pins the Cam locks go around were a fraction off, not enough the locks didn't line up but enough that closing the cam locks couldn't be done properly which means over time all those lose connections will cause the table to loose its support and begin to wiggle and become unsteady. I've only had this table a couple months and rarely used it, but that's because I'm rarely home and rarely need it, but it won't take long for those cam locks to come loose, I give it another couple months with my once a week use of this table - which means I'll constantly be trying to find and tighten the loose locks