i am a 135 lb woman, carried both boxes up three flights of stairs and put the bed together in about an hour by myself with only with a philips screwdriver. super easy. unfortunately one of the legs is either wider or the brackets were not lined up when the manufacturer put them on, which makes one side of the bed frame slightly higher than the other. i haven't put a mattress in yet so we'll see how that affects the unevenness, if at all.