The directions where not at all easy to follow. The 90 minute time they give you to put it together is way off the mark ( 3 hours and 35 minutes)the holds that are pre-drilled had to r-drill in order to get the bed together (other wise the finished side would have been down and on the backside of the bed, instead of facing out) thank goodness we had a table saw because we had to cut down 1/14 inch of the platform boards to get them to fit flat into the platform. Extremely frustrating but when you get to a point in the putting this bed together you cant very well go back and unassembled it to get back into the 2 boxes it came in. Other wise I love the room it gave me and its perfect as a Guestroom / Hobby Room bed.