I managed to put this bed together mostly by myself.  I only had help towards the end because my son stopped in otherwise it went together well but time consuming.  So far I love this bed, I bought it for my spare room so it wont be used a lot, it will be hard to give a good review until its used but so far I like it.  The pieces could be marked better, some had no markings but matching up to the photos was easy enough.