I’m pretty good at putting furniture together and I read the reviews to see how difficult this would be. It sounded pretty straightforward. It took about 6 hours and it was exhausting. The shelf above the bed was the worst part and by the time we realized it was backwards we’d been defeated so we just kept moving forward to get it over with. The shelf happened at the four hour mark and while the bed looks really cool for my son’s college apartment be prepared for a full day of putting it together.