Best ever assembly! Took all of 25 minutes. Everything fit perfectly - check out the pics to see the spot-on alignment of the legs. It really is solid wood. Plus the cherry almost matches the antique cherry headboard that we are using. While it's not finished like expensive furniture, everything else is as good! We are very pleased.
A great surprise was the little ratchet tool with a hex head to use on the hex bolts - even came with a poem asking you to name it! We named ours Roger Rachet :)
Assembly tip: while the instructions were great there was one thing that should've been illustrated or indicated as a pre-step: putting the gripper pads on the feet before the whole bed is put together. It's indicated that they go together in the parts list with a plus sign, but it really should be a more obvious step. It was only an inconvenience though. Overall, in my decades of furniture assembly this was the by far the best.