We bought this for my son, and fully expected it to be just a really good quality cheap bed.  Well we were pleasantly surprised to find it was real wood!  And it seems to be very well made, so I'm sure it'll last a while.  The only downfall is the instructions.,..not extremely clear but we put our heads together and used a little common sense and got together in about 2 hours.  I will say this though, I just noticed the other day when pulling out trundle that the brackets are starting to bend a little, causing the wood on outside to be crooked.  But to be fair, we do have carpet in bedrooms so it's a little work to pull it out.  Other than that, it's an awesome bed, well made, and gorgeous!!!!  My son loves it!  And we also bought a 12 memory foam mattress for the tmain top bed and it works perfect!!