This bed is beautiful!!! I can not stop looking at it. It was super easy to install, it took my son and I about an hour in half to put 
together. A drill is recommended and you will have to drill in your own wholes in the foot rails, however the factory marks the areas needed to drill. I also used a low profile box spring (4 inches) so that I wouldn’t be so high off the ground. The box spring once laid will be about 2 inches off the ground so the bed will be high. So in love!!!