The bed was easy to put together. It helps if you have one or two others to hold the bed in place while building. The bed looks great and fits just as described. Love the color and quality. I rated this a 4 star because I researched the details of this bed and all the comments and learned that this bed does not come with the slats to use as a single mattress, so we the next day after we received it we went to home depot and bought some wood, cut it to size and made our own slats. Well, three days after we received the bed, we received a box with slats. I am disappointed that I spent extra money on purchasing and cutting wood and not knowing they would send additional slats with this bed. It is clear in the description that there are only 3 slats- which is not enough to avoid a box spring. Wish the additional slats would have come the same day. This would have been a different post- one of elation, surprise, and 5 stars.