The bed is super sturdy and the ottoman lift works well. It did take 2 hours to assemble it, and the instructions are terrible - it felt like the technical challenge on the Bake Off. Often there was just a picture and you had to work out which order to do things in. The ottoman lift fabric handle snapped on the first go at lifting it, but I think thats because we should have doubled it up but again, the instructions were so poor a lot of it was guess work!