Shipment arrived a day early which was great. I found all parts in good condition in spite of exterior box damage. The instructions were very easy to follow for assembly, all you had to do was carefully look at the illustrations. I elected to glue and use stainless screws due to Florida climate. I also decided to cut down the platform to save my shins as I have a full mattress and the edges were exposed as a queen platform. I added some self sticking rubber shelf liner to keep the mattress from sliding. The total project assembly time was 1.5 hours working alone.  The only negative was that the hardware was packaged almost randomly as opposed to all base items grouped or drawer items grouped. Overall, I feel that for the money I would recommend the product strongly!