This bed is exactly as described, very nice for the price and it arrived in about 5 days, so pretty quick shipping. It was easy to put together and didn't take more than 30-45 minutes, really it takes longer to open and lay out all of the pieces than to actually put together.  There is one negative to this bed the boxes had some black stuff from shipping (as the always do) and it of course got on our hands and then transferred to the bed and man it was really hard to get off, I even used a  damp magic eraser and it smeared it around, so I am not sure how easy this bed will be to clean smudges and things but really that's the only negative I have.