Very hard to follow instructions. The ends were cut wrong...no hole for dowel. We gave up on trundle... so many things were wrong and we could not put it together.  I need for Thanksgiving guests, so I am going to have to live with. You cannot Center the slats as there is a hole there for a brace and the others are oddly spaced where it's hard to put the slats evenly apart. And it says hardwood but the screws to hold the slats in place went in fairly easy without a prehold made so who knows. It is pretty but I just hope it holds together.