This bed was pretty easy to put together, I did it by myself in about an hour, probably less time if you had help. It doesn’t squeak once you put everything together and tighten everything. It’s definitely not as gold as it shows in the pictures before you buy but beautiful none the less. The posts do look a bit bent once you stare at it long enough but nothing that we couldn’t fix. Over all very satisfied with it. 

TIP Some of the pieces don’t exactly align right so wait till the very end to tighten everything down.