This headboard was also a bit of a challenge to assemble.  Nailing the backboards on just right so the nails didn't come through was a bit of a challenge.  Assembly was not as difficult as the bed. What I don't like is that to connect the headboard to the bed you have to screw it directly into the bedframe, so if you chose to switch the side the drawers are on then you would have holes in the now footboard of the bed.  When I called this manufacturer to ask if I had read the directions correctly of where to screw the headboard into I was told that if at some point we chose to switch the bed around they would send us a new piece so there wouldn't be holes in it.  Considering how difficult it was to screw the screws into one layer of the wood/particle wood I'm sure its not going to be fun attaching the headboard to the bedframe.