The bed isn't bad for the price. However, most of the pieces for the bed are packaged inside the headboard, which caused some damage to the inside of the headboard during shipping. The two horizontal boards that are meant as support for the headboard are only secured in place by a bead of glue and some small staples. Both boards came loose on ours because of the way it's packaged. After securing the boards, the bed was easy to build and it looks very nice overall.