The shelf went together quite easily and they even included gloves and a little hammer to help with assembly. A fair amount of time was taken trying to decypher instructions that said something about the top shelf brackets having rivets that allow a wire shelf. Well, there's no wire shelf, they're all MDF. And I didn't see any set of supports that were different from the others that would make the top shelf special. So I mostly ignored the instructions and put it together easily.