It took me 3 hours to put this bed together, had to attach and reattach a lot of parts because the instructions weren’t entirely clear. There were several pieces of the wooden slats that were too short and didn’t go all the way across the frame, so it could not support the mattress. I went ahead and tried to screw them into the side boards thinking it would be okay… I thought wrong, and while getting ready for bed I sat on the bed and it completely collapsed on me and broke. I’m extremely disappointed.