The quality was much better than I expected. The dimensions are exactly as listed. At first when we opened the box we were a little confused because we thought that some of the parts were missing, however they are stored in a zipper pocket on the back of the headboard. Kind of a nifty idea and I imagine it would make moving the piece to a different home a lot easier because everything can be store in there again. The directions were pretty simple, but only pictures and no words.