One of the headboard pieces were damaged, then the boards that goes under the mattress were to short. The worst of it was the instructions. Well the instructions were all labeled with letters and numbers but the bed pieces were not labeled at all. So it took probably an extra 45 min because we had to figure out what goes were by just pics. It took about 3 12 hours to put together. Then after it was all put together the bed that pulls out at the bottom has a 3 inch gap from the bottom of the bed and the top of the very bottom bed .