This is a beautiful piece! We bought it to place in our newly renovated theater room. It came well packaged fully assembled on its own pallet. It is heavy and was a challenge for my husband and I to figure out how to get it in the basement! We took it off the pallet, cut part of it away and duck- taped a rug on the bottom of the pallet. We put the Bed back on and slid it down the stairs. It is easy to open and close. My adult children are already fighting who gets to sleep on it! We love it!