My 13 year old daughter is happy with her new bed! She wanted something with a padded headboard to be able to lean against comfortably. This is surprisngly easy to assemble. She and I did it ourselves in less than an hour. There was a handy socket allen wrench included with the parts and that was a Godsend vs. having to hand crank with a traditional allen wrench. We also used a (allen) screw gun to tighten everything. The parts package even included spare screws, just in case. One of the screws didn't want to thread its way in  smoothly but with some elbow grease, we got it in. The bed looks really nice and feels sturdy.