My 11 year old son loves his new loft bed. It's a cool and modern design and works well in his room with the added desk underneath. The desk space is large and he loves the shelves to put some of his collectibles on. The only negative is the stairs; they are rounded which is oddly painful to walk up. We ended up buying a RV ladder (pretty inexpensive online) for him to use instead. This bed could be improved if they changed the design of the stairs from a rounded step to a flat step. The rounded metal hurts your feet as your try to go up. Otherwise the bed is well made and great design!