The bed is good quality and as pictured.  Delivery went well with good communications from the delivery partner.  Assembly took a few hours.  The assembly instructions were 90% pictures (not real good quality as if printed in draft mode).  Some written instruction would have helped.  If you are good at building things, putting things together, and generally understand how these types of wood components go together, you can do it yourself.  If not, I would recommend having it assembled for you.  Depending on the type of mattress/boxspring you use I would recommend laying something over the slats.  I used 1/4 inch plywood since I had a 100 lb. king size 1 piece mattress.