Looks great, but its a little difficult to assemble with just one person.
This bedframe looks great, and feels pretty sturdy so far. Well see how it holds up to my kids inevitably jumping on it over the next few months/years/days/howeverlongitlasts...
Feels way more comfy in my preliminary tests than just having the mattress on the floor (which is what we had been doing before this arrived).
Maybe a couple things to note though:
o The box the bedframe came in is inordinately small. My first thought at first was there is no possible way you could fit a queen sized bed in this box. Do not worry! They did in fact flat pack the hell out of the bedframe, and its (probably) all there. Even though the length of the box is half the width of a normal queen... XD
o The instructions were a little confusing/contradictory, on the first page before you open them it says to leave everything loosey goosey until you have it mostly together, and then on the very next page before you start it says to cramp down on all the bolts with all of the ugga-duggas (even saying you might want to use a drill or something). It then doesnt say when you should leave things loose, or even when you should tighten them up... only gives vague warnings that beams could explode if you dont do it right. I ended up leaving everything loose until the last minute, and tightened them up with my impact drill... I expect most people wont have one of those, and probably the included Allen key would have been fine, albeit slow...
o The cross-members were by far the most difficult part of putting the bed together. These are the beams marked C, D, and I in the instructions, and they go together in steps 6 and 7. Unless you have some weird jig on hand, or maybe four extra arms, you will probably need two or maybe even three people to hold C D up, while you screw them into I, and then again when you screw C D to the sides of the frame (a/a1 and b/b1). I had thing2 all the way through step 6, but then she abandoned me claiming she needed a break from building about 3/4s the way through that step, and then thing1 came to try and help me through step 7, but also got distracted and ran off... Somehow I made it work, but without thing 2 on step 6, Im not really sure how I would have made this work!
Id include a picture, but the room is messy, and I need to eat some lunch before doing anything else today...
Edit: After a year and a half of use, it has held up pretty well. The one complaint we have that drops it to 2 stars instead of 4, is the thing slides all over the hardwood floor, and we like to do some light reading before we actually go to sleep. This means that the bed and frame slowly slip out from underneath us as we lean against the wall. If we had to do it again, I would have purchased the model with the headboard, but apparently the model with the headboards headboard is incompatible with this model, so I cant just buy a headboard that fits.
Looks great, but its a little difficult to assemble with just one person.
This bedframe looks great, and feels pretty sturdy so far. Well see how it holds up to my kids inevitably jumping on it over the next few months/years/days/howeverlongitlasts... Feels way more comfy in my preliminary tests than just having the mattress on the floor (which is what we had been doing before this arrived). Maybe a couple things to note though: o The box the bedframe came in is inordinately small. My first thought at first was there is no possible way you could fit a queen sized bed in this box. Do not worry! They did in fact flat pack the hell out of the bedframe, and its (probably) all there. Even though the length of the box is half the width of a normal queen... XD o The instructions were a little confusing/contradictory, on the first page before you open them it says to leave everything loosey goosey until you have it mostly together, and then on the very next page before you start it says to cramp down on all the bolts with all of the ugga-duggas (even saying you might want to use a drill or something). It then doesnt say when you should leave things loose, or even when you should tighten them up... only gives vague warnings that beams could explode if you dont do it right. I ended up leaving everything loose until the last minute, and tightened them up with my impact drill... I expect most people wont have one of those, and probably the included Allen key would have been fine, albeit slow... o The cross-members were by far the most difficult part of putting the bed together. These are the beams marked C, D, and I in the instructions, and they go together in steps 6 and 7. Unless you have some weird jig on hand, or maybe four extra arms, you will probably need two or maybe even three people to hold C D up, while you screw them into I, and then again when you screw C D to the sides of the frame (a/a1 and b/b1). I had thing2 all the way through step 6, but then she abandoned me claiming she needed a break from building about 3/4s the way through that step, and then thing1 came to try and help me through step 7, but also got distracted and ran off... Somehow I made it work, but without thing 2 on step 6, Im not really sure how I would have made this work! Id include a picture, but the room is messy, and I need to eat some lunch before doing anything else today... Edit: After a year and a half of use, it has held up pretty well. The one complaint we have that drops it to 2 stars instead of 4, is the thing slides all over the hardwood floor, and we like to do some light reading before we actually go to sleep. This means that the bed and frame slowly slip out from underneath us as we lean against the wall. If we had to do it again, I would have purchased the model with the headboard, but apparently the model with the headboards headboard is incompatible with this model, so I cant just buy a headboard that fits.