The bed itself is awesome, our kids love it! Very sturdy, the paint isn’t matte but it’s also not to glossy that it makes it slippery. It took my husband about 4 hours to put together in between watching the football game. The only down fall is the bunk bed comes delivered in 8 boxes and they are not marked as box 1, 2, 3 etc. they do label on the side what’s inside the box but it was difficult reading the instructions trying to figure out what needed to be opened first. Overall I would recommend this to my friends and I like that it has a 400lbs weight limit because 3 of my kids like to sit up on the top bunk.