My girls (5 and 3 years old) love the bed and stairs in the end! As for us parents putting together took forever (5 hours or so) and the instructions were just pictures to go off of along with a million screws/bolts etc. I wish the bags of hardware were labeled more efficiently as they had tiny cut out pieces of paper with numbers on them and more than one type of hardware in the bag which made it very confusing. Overall the bed is what we wanted but my girls will outgrow into their teenage years.