These are sturdy and well made. the instructions are so-so to put it together, but not terrible. It took 2 of us about 3 hours all in to set the whole thing up (twin over full). My only issue is that some of the pieces arrived dented - not from shipping. The dents happened at time of packaging or prior. They don't affect the strength of the bed, but we had to make sure that those pieces were against the wall.