I looked at this for a long time before ordering, then finally read ALL the reviews on it and decided to take a chance. I put it together essentially by myself (when I was almost finished a friend came to help). I found the instructions easy to follow, though my difficulty was trying to hold up the pieces by myself as mine is a CA King so was rather large. Some reviewers posted pics of it being a bit too large for their mattress, but it fit mine perfectly. I was not able to use the box springs as they made the bed too tall, but I'm totally fine with that. I bought this for my guest room and it looks very nice. I just need to paint and change my curtains now. All in all, I'm impressed with it and was especially impressed with the way they stored the parts of it in the back of the headboard for shipping.