Great bed but just read this first to avoid the agony that we went through
Great bed at a great price, sturdy, sleek clean lines, good height (not too high for 8 ceilings). The best thing about this bed are the FLAT ladder rungs. Anyone who has tried to climb a bunk bed on round ladder rungs will tell you that it really kills the feet, and flat rungs are a simple design improvement that makes all the difference. I dont even know why humanity has not evolved fast enough to eliminate all bunk beds with round ladder rungs / its that much of a no/brainer. I cant speak for wooden beds, but if you are considering a metal bed, do not buy one with round ladder rungs, and this frankly might be your only choice with flat ones. It is worth it for that alone.
The only negative about this bed is if you want to avoid days (and I mean days) of pain and agony and tears and meltdowns, pay very close attention to the holes in the diagrams in the instructions. My family members had to take the bed apart THREE times and start over from scratch because three times they ended up at the very end with the holes in the wrong direction, and fixing it meant disassembling the whole thing. Also the cross bars are a huge pain to put into the sideboards without them all falling out. My son called putting this bed together a modern day torture device. I think most of the pain could have been avoided, ahem, by reading the directions CLOSELY. So if youre the kind of person who just looks at the diagram and then thinks you know what to do and doesnt look at it again until you get to the end, you may find yourself undoing and redoing all the steps multiple times. But if you survive the assembly, its a really nice bed. I love it.
Great bed but just read this first to avoid the agony that we went through
Great bed at a great price, sturdy, sleek clean lines, good height (not too high for 8 ceilings). The best thing about this bed are the FLAT ladder rungs. Anyone who has tried to climb a bunk bed on round ladder rungs will tell you that it really kills the feet, and flat rungs are a simple design improvement that makes all the difference. I dont even know why humanity has not evolved fast enough to eliminate all bunk beds with round ladder rungs / its that much of a no/brainer. I cant speak for wooden beds, but if you are considering a metal bed, do not buy one with round ladder rungs, and this frankly might be your only choice with flat ones. It is worth it for that alone. The only negative about this bed is if you want to avoid days (and I mean days) of pain and agony and tears and meltdowns, pay very close attention to the holes in the diagrams in the instructions. My family members had to take the bed apart THREE times and start over from scratch because three times they ended up at the very end with the holes in the wrong direction, and fixing it meant disassembling the whole thing. Also the cross bars are a huge pain to put into the sideboards without them all falling out. My son called putting this bed together a modern day torture device. I think most of the pain could have been avoided, ahem, by reading the directions CLOSELY. So if youre the kind of person who just looks at the diagram and then thinks you know what to do and doesnt look at it again until you get to the end, you may find yourself undoing and redoing all the steps multiple times. But if you survive the assembly, its a really nice bed. I love it.