Surprising shoddy quality for a $700 bed. Clearly the popularity of this bed has resulted in a collapse in quality control by the manufacturer. In the end it looks mostly okay and seems reasonably sturdy, but there were many problems. On one of the stairs the pre-drilled holes did not line up at all so it will never be seated quite right. One piece had clearly been damaged and repainted poorly by the manufacturer. Some of the slats did not have pre-drilled holes for the screws and also weren't quite wide enough to fit snugly, forcing me to put all the screws in at an angle so they would catch. The pre-scored holes to put the hinges on the cabinet doors were off by a solid centimeter on two of the doors -- if you actually screw the hinges in where they tell you they would be totally crooked. And finally, in at least two places the instructions were just totally wrong -- once explaining how to attach the wheels to the trundle and again assembling the stairs.