We were leary after reading some reviews, but overall this is exactly what we needed. We wanted a changing table that could covert later to a general toy shelf and this fits the bill! Yes, it was a little challenging ti assemble (took both of us just over an hour, as we juggled our 6 month old) but it's very cute, compact, and doesn't really look like a traditional changing table, which is what we wanted! And the instructions are tricky, we did have to redo one of the steps, so just gut check yourself against the finished picture as you go along and you should be ok.