I love this bed. It’s really beautiful and is sturdy. Fabric is super soft velvet. Now - it did take me 3 hours to put together but I did it alone and I’m 64yo female 5’2” 138. So leverage and strength was not on my side. There are no written instructions. It is only illustrations. Pay close attention to the illustrations and talk it out if you have to, and it will go together fine. ￼￼ The only issue I had in assembly is when I had to attach the footboard to the side rails. The middle support went on fine. One of the side rails went on fine the other side rail for whatever reason seemed like the screws were not gonna be long enough. ￼ I made sure that the bed was completely straight and was able to finally get the other foot board attached. Any issues you have will be most likely alignment.