DO NOT BUY THIS BED.  Cannot stress this enough.  It is a nightmare, cheap materials, poorly designed and the instructions are terrible. It took over 7 hours to put up (our solid oak king size bed takes 1 hour to put up). To top it off, our mattress doesn't even fit it despite being well under the measurements provided on this page!! Now stuck with a bed which squeaks at every turn & that the mattress slight hangs over.