Furniture in a box

Working hard for many reasons, the most recent... so that hopefully one day I can purchase furniture that doesn't require at-home assembly.

In the past month I have built, okay thats a stretch...assembled two bar stools and a ladder bookcase. 
Pictures below as proof.

I know this sounds strange, but the allen wrench(yes I know what it's called now) really hurt my fingers, so I used an oven mit to tighten the screws, and it worked!!!

Here's the finished product(I made two):

Ladder bookshelf - This was actually done over the course of 3 evenings.  I had to screw the shelfs to each side of the structure, and there was a little piece inside the wood shelf a few inches from the outside hole that the screw needed to go through...meaning that you had to align the screw perfectly in order for it to go in.  Not being able to see the little piece in the middle was frustrating and took several tries to get it to work.

Obviously haven't put much on the bookshelf yet, just added two framed photos to make sure it worked :)