I love my new bed. It took me about an hour to put it together by myself and the instructions were pretty easy to follow. It won’t take as long if you have extra help to put it together. I needed extra help to get up the stairs. You need two people to bring it up the stairs as it is one heavy box. Once we opened it, all the parts were inside the headboard nicely boxed so it wouldn't rupture the back side of the headboard. The instructions were simple enough. The was enough room to storage underneath the bed.