This bed is beautiful and well made.  It has a lot of parts but it goes together well.  They do not send any extra parts so make sure not to lose any.  I purchased the twin over full bed including staircase.  It came in 6 boxes.  I laid the boxes out in other rooms which made it easy to find the parts and put together.  You work mainly from one box to the next.  The directions were clear and easy to follow.  You did have to do some back and forth on directions with the full bed on the bottom because the main section of directions is for twin over twin.  Then you get separate directions to modify the bottom bed for a full bed.  I read all the directions first before I started so I knew to not complete the twin bed on the bottom.