Love this bed! High praise for the quality and the excellent packing. It seems very sturdy and took me about 3 or 4 hours to build (mostly alone, but when I needed a second pair of hands I had my 11 year old help). I found the instructions easy to follow, even with half of the letters not matching (most of the black bars weren’t labelled the way they were in the instructions). Like others have said, this could be made a couple inches smaller in length and width as there is quite a gap at the edges, but I think my bedding will hide it.  Wish I had painted the walls first. LOL