Finished product is quite solid for a teenager. Drawers are okay, closet area is OK, not huge, and right half door opens up into a hidey/hole area under about half the bed that any kid less than 15 or so will find a great hide away location. Ladder going up isnt great, with round steps rather than flat, so suggest you park a chair in front of the stairs so yoir kid wont hurt their feet. Desk around the side is cute, but the drawer opens in a strange way that is not helpful and to close it abain you have to carefully click 2 tabs on either sode, very poorly designed.
The instructions are fairly good. It is vitally impt you follow them SLOWLY and each step think carefully about which little piece goes where. many pages have diagrams that are confusing if you dont follow VERRRY carefully which screw goes into which hole, or which orientation the board goes in, etc etc. Easy to screw up.
In a couple of places for the brackets that hold up the mattress bars you need to kmake your own hole for the screw, or whack the melamine with a screwdriver to start a screwhole. Not too hard.
Screwing the steps in proved impossible their screws kept breaking. I used my own wood screws in the end.
A few other glitches in the instructions ear the end.
Mine arrived in 3 boxes, very carefully fit together. Be sure you open one box at a time. Do not discard anything, it might be important, e.g. the cheap cardvoard backing of the closet and drawers (I added a layer of my own.) Very easy to mix up right and left versions, look carefully for marks and labels, and compare what you are doing with the manual often.
Very easy to confuse the little bits and pieces. screws, locks, pegs, etc.
Overall it took me about 5 days working betwen 1/2 hour and 2 hours per day.
Be aware that you cannot install this in a tiny area against a wall, you need to build it a foot or two away from a wall, and only then when it is done do you move it against 2 walls into the corner.
Overall I am very very glad I built it. If your kid helps, give them a dozen little bowls and have them keep track of all the pegs and screws and bolts and things. theres lots to do there. Very functional.
Go slow when building, and youll get good results
Finished product is quite solid for a teenager. Drawers are okay, closet area is OK, not huge, and right half door opens up into a hidey/hole area under about half the bed that any kid less than 15 or so will find a great hide away location. Ladder going up isnt great, with round steps rather than flat, so suggest you park a chair in front of the stairs so yoir kid wont hurt their feet. Desk around the side is cute, but the drawer opens in a strange way that is not helpful and to close it abain you have to carefully click 2 tabs on either sode, very poorly designed. The instructions are fairly good. It is vitally impt you follow them SLOWLY and each step think carefully about which little piece goes where. many pages have diagrams that are confusing if you dont follow VERRRY carefully which screw goes into which hole, or which orientation the board goes in, etc etc. Easy to screw up. In a couple of places for the brackets that hold up the mattress bars you need to kmake your own hole for the screw, or whack the melamine with a screwdriver to start a screwhole. Not too hard. Screwing the steps in proved impossible their screws kept breaking. I used my own wood screws in the end. A few other glitches in the instructions ear the end. Mine arrived in 3 boxes, very carefully fit together. Be sure you open one box at a time. Do not discard anything, it might be important, e.g. the cheap cardvoard backing of the closet and drawers (I added a layer of my own.) Very easy to mix up right and left versions, look carefully for marks and labels, and compare what you are doing with the manual often. Very easy to confuse the little bits and pieces. screws, locks, pegs, etc. Overall it took me about 5 days working betwen 1/2 hour and 2 hours per day. Be aware that you cannot install this in a tiny area against a wall, you need to build it a foot or two away from a wall, and only then when it is done do you move it against 2 walls into the corner. Overall I am very very glad I built it. If your kid helps, give them a dozen little bowls and have them keep track of all the pegs and screws and bolts and things. theres lots to do there. Very functional.