Weve gone through lots of IKEA furniture in our life, and we bought two of these to replace two IKEA beds that were absolute garbage. Its typical particle board IKEA/like furniture, but the overall finished product was better than I expected. The mattress supports were almost 1/2 thick sheets that covered the entire surface vs the rolled slats and 1/8 panels from IKEA. It made for a stronger finish and my daughter is no longer complaining about the mattress. The old slats just pushed more springs through the mattress. It takes roughly 60 minutes to assemble the entire bed / 30 minutes for the whole frame and 30 minutes for the three drawers. The one thing I was not pleased with was the back of the drawer. The front and sides of the drawers have slats along the bottom edge to slide in the bottom panel. The back does not and you have to nail the piece in from the bottom / be careful not to split the board with a nail! The bottom panel is not flush with the back piece, so you cant even use the entire thickness for the nail. Other than that, the end result was very nice and the kids love the beds. I was even able to stand on the bed to do some final adjustments with posters et al. No creaking or fear I was going to break the bed. simple yet awesome design
Pleasantly surprised
Weve gone through lots of IKEA furniture in our life, and we bought two of these to replace two IKEA beds that were absolute garbage. Its typical particle board IKEA/like furniture, but the overall finished product was better than I expected. The mattress supports were almost 1/2 thick sheets that covered the entire surface vs the rolled slats and 1/8 panels from IKEA. It made for a stronger finish and my daughter is no longer complaining about the mattress. The old slats just pushed more springs through the mattress. It takes roughly 60 minutes to assemble the entire bed / 30 minutes for the whole frame and 30 minutes for the three drawers. The one thing I was not pleased with was the back of the drawer. The front and sides of the drawers have slats along the bottom edge to slide in the bottom panel. The back does not and you have to nail the piece in from the bottom / be careful not to split the board with a nail! The bottom panel is not flush with the back piece, so you cant even use the entire thickness for the nail. Other than that, the end result was very nice and the kids love the beds. I was even able to stand on the bed to do some final adjustments with posters et al. No creaking or fear I was going to break the bed. simple yet awesome design