I have a lot of positive things to say about the bed—the design is excellent, the instructions are comprehensive, and the metal components are well fabricated. I have experience working as a contractor and I installed the bed myself. I installed the bed with my wife’s help for each of the parts requiring two people. Elsewhere a reviewer states that he hired a handyman with assistance to install the bed and that it took 2.5 hours— that guy definitely got his money’s worth. It took me It took me all day to install this bed. Only complaint is the use of compressed particleboard for all wooden elements except for the hardwood doors. I understand this saves the company money considerably, but use  of such cheap undercuts under what is otherwise an excellent design.