put this together yesterday.   instructions were good and items ends are numbered making assembly mostly straight-forward.  i did have one snafu where i put on of the headboard beams in upside down-- meaning the trough to hold the underside center beam was upside down.  not sure if i missed correctly associating the interconnect number but i think part of what mislead me was the number label for the trough joint was upside down.  see pic-- this is the way the trough should be but you can see the label is upside down.  all of the other numbers where right side up (second pic).  the wood slats have a velcro connection to the frame which holds them-- so they'll never move-- thought that was pretty cool.  bed seems very sturdy.