I have put together lots of different types of furniture over the years, this headboard was by far the worst--because of their very bad illustrations that show instruction on putting it together. You would think it was so easy to put together- but it took us longer than we wanted to. One of the pieces arrived to us broken, but I called up the company and they were able to ship out a replacement piece within a week. It looks ok once complete, but the trouble/time to put it together was not worth it. The main problem was their crappy instructions.