This is great once assembled.  I ordered the blue and color is true to picture.  It is a challenge to assemble.  Every slat in the head and foot board and side slats need to  be put together.  Lots of dowel connections, to which I added glue. Each leg has a slightly different set of slits/slots for connecting the side boards or the top rails--and it is easy to assemble them wrong, which I did with almost every set of two.  The diagrams illustrate the different slit/slot patterns for the different head and foot boards--you need to follow the guide very carefully.  My son was helping and laid them out, supposedly correctly, but in fact not.  So we assembled, disassembled and reassembled a number of times until we got it right.  But once complete, a very sturdy piece--could have paid 4 times the price, and not gotten better quality.  I guess you pay in assembly time, but if I saved that much, my time was several hundred $ per hour.  So worth it.