We LOVE this bunk bed! I had been searching and comparing so many beds as we live in a basement apartment and have extremely low ceiling heights and limited space. I was worried that either it would be too high or the bottom bunk wouldn’t have enough clearance and I’m so happy to say thats not the case with this one! At the moment we are using the bottom as a reading area until my youngest transitions out of the crib. My husband put it together on his own and said it was quite straight forward! The only reason for 4 starts instead of 5 is that some of the screwsbolts that came in the kit didn’t have any thread on them, so my husband had to go to the store and find some that would work!