Easy assembly, less than five minutes, using it on the bedroom nightstand, it gives the room a nice warm look with three stages of brightness. The lamp arrived nicely packaged within 48 hrs.. Assembly was quite easy; less than five mins. Here's an assembly tip: When inserting the light socket to the base, give 6-8 turns counter clockwise then as you screw the two parts together (clockwise) it will tighten nicely (some comments shown difficulty with this step). The only disadvantage with this lamp is it will not work with a wall switch to turn it on-off, you need to touch the lamp base to turn it on. I love the low light setting almost like a night light and with LED bulb it should last a long time.