We put the bed together on January 2018. I loved the storage, and although it did feel slightly insecure, I trusted most of the reviews.
Well, after 2 months in the bed had a crack on all 4 corners! It would rock back and forth with the slightest movement. I was afraid to move or get up too quickly. We finally threw it away, as the bed was leaning firmware and would completely break anytime.

It cost us almost $500! We went to the local store and in the clearance section were able to get a bed and a dresser for $800 (wooden, high quality).

I know the 12 drawers seem amazing, but the bed will not last. :(
I hate the fact that I wasted all that money on trash.

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The IKEA-style assembly of this bed does, as other reviews indicate, leave something to be desired in terms of sturdiness and creakiness. However, with a couple extra hours and about $25 worth of apparatus from the hardware store, it's easy to build this thing solid as a rock. If you've got the time and the inclination, you'll end up with a surprisingly high quality piece of furniture. (And it doesn't look cheap either.) Total assembly time, with the modifications, was about five hours for a moderately capable guy with a drill and a six-pack of High Life. You'll also need a companion to help hold things together as you're slotting together the bigger bits.

If this sounds intimidating, it's actually pretty easy. Just buy the hardware and things will be pretty intuitive once you're done slogging through the directions and you return to this.

You will need the following from the hardware store. Just ask someone there if you're unfamiliar, and they'll point you right to it:

8 2.5inch/63mm "corner braces"

A box of wood screws that are sized 6x5/8. The corner braces may come with screws, but these will be 3/4in or longer, and will poke through the wood. You're going to use the 6x5/8 screws with the corner braces.

A box of wood screws that are 1.5 inches long. Just get the narrowest ones they have, whatever gauge that may be. If they don't have something 1.5 inches, anything in that neighborhood will do.

15 feet of 1/2in wide heavy duty felt tape. (Get six rolls of the stuff and you won't run out.)

STEP 1: Before you install the slats on which the bed will rest and connect the whole thing together, stick a strip of felt across the top of the two inside support beams. This will help keep the beams from rattling around under your mattress.

STEP 2: Once you have assembled the frame, take the longer wood screws and drill them down through each slat into the support beams, right through the felt. Make it nice and tight.

STEP 4: Cut the felt tape into 3 inch strips and, without removing the wax paper backing, slip them into the slots where the ends of the slats are fitted, using a flathead screwdriver to stuff them in if you have problems. This will tighten the ends so that they don't rattle around in the metal bracket.

STEP 5: Drill the corner braces using the 6x5/8 screws into each of the four corners. It will be obvious where to put them: you're just trying to firm up the connection between the side beams and the ends, so that they don't flex around. I found it helpful to put the top four horizontally (directly above the slats) and bottom four vertically (like an L, inside the opening where the drawer will go). Don't worry that you will impinge on the drawers -- there's room.

(It's also helpful to run some felt tape along the bottom of the bed, especially if you have wood floors, so that you can move it around without scratching.)

Congrats, you now have an extremely solid (and subtly classy looking) bed. And you spent $350, not $800.

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Cheapest material I've seen for such an expensive bed.
The bed pretty much broke while I was assembling it.
DO NOT BUY!

The process of getting furniture online took me nearly 2 months (at first only 1/2 boxes shipped).

So I slept with my bed on the floor for that time.
Then, after I finally get everything together, this bed breaks while I am assembling it. I'm gonna go to IKEA and use this as firewood unfortunately

BTW, with regards to the pictures. Those are three pictures of three DIFFERENT places that the frame crapped out on me. Not three different angles of the same problem. DONT BUY

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Okay, I will say that most of the reviews on this bed scared me at first, and I almost didn’t make the purchase, but after rereading the positive reviews and figuring out what got the people mad in the bad reviews. I when ahead and bought it.
I will admit that this bed was not a super easy put together in 5 minutes item, but it wasn't as difficult as everybody made it sound. it took me in a friend approximately three and a half hours to put it together. We did have to read the instructions very carefully several times had to and figure out what the instructions meant in some of the pictures. But all in all It was a great experience if it's like putting together a jigsaw puzzle and just want to say the finished product turned out great. I love this bed. I have to give it a 5-star rating because of the way it looks. I’ve no issues in regards to Quality, I know exactly what it is made of and have read all the specs on it.
Once I put it together and I put my mattress on it and I actually lay down on it and within 20 minutes of it being put together and I slept like a baby. So Kudos Amazon this was a great choice of a product offering, so I give it a 5-star rating.
PS I also bought the matching Headboard as well.

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Came without damage it is well packed from the factory. The queen size has one box that is over 70lbs and the Ups driver did not want to fully deliver wanted me to take it off the truck basically he was not happy when I insisted it be delivered properly. That all being said it took 4 hrs one person to assemble the frame - the 12 drawers you about another two hrs. The frame is sturdy and the drawers have solid wood sides and go together quickly. I would recommend the frame is is a good value since you will no longer need a dresser- for smaller rooms it is a big asset.

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Putting this bed frame together, the first screw into one of the pieces broke the piece. We believe it wasn't just a defective part, but poor design because all of the holes for similar use are too close to the edge for the type of material. Amazon made the return experience as easy as they could, but having to re-pack and move around something that heavy with that many pieces is no fun. It's still better in that I didn't have to carry it to and from a store. But in the future I will not take a risk on something this heavy and buy brands I know and have confidence in.

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We purchased this bed after reading good reviews.. We debated between the a similar South Shore model, but ended up going with this one because the reviews were better...

We also purchased the coordinating headboard. After opening the boxes we immediately noticed the pieces of wood were not labeled. We were able to figure it out based on the pictures, but it was annoying to have to muddle through the building process. Neither the bed or the headboard had any labels.

The other thing that really bothers me about this bed is that you can see three large bolt heads along the side of the bed with the drawers... I was immediately disappointed.. The bolt heads are silver 3/4 inch in diameter. The picture of the bolts appears on the front page of the instruction manual but does not show up on the pictures posted on Amazon...

The bed seems sturdy enough and it will be fine for our toddler. Wish we would have purchased the other one though.

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I followed the instructions concerning the strengthening of the base Called ''Before you get discouraged by the reviews...'' In the comments below, posted by ''kindle Customer''

I feel it is now so much more resistant than if I hadn't done it. Worth the extra steps and the extra time. Minimal to no creaking sounds, the drawers are almost perfect (just one with a 1 cm crack), the wooden planks didn't move when I put the mattress on top (if I hadn't screwed them to the base the planks would've been all over the place). And I added porcelain handles to the drawers: now it's super pretty!

Notes

Do be careful to not use max torque the screws, since it's still not real hard wood tho.

And as of Kindle Customer's ''STEP 5 '' (STEP 5: Drill the corner braces using the 6x5/8 screw ) :

Firstly: DO IT BEFORE STEP 2 ! But the slats in the frame in step 2 yes, but do not screw them just yet; this will allow you to move the ones
close to the border a bit so you have more space to work with the corner braces.

Secondly, when he says: ''I found it helpful to put the top four horizontally (directly above the slats) and BOTTOM FOUR vertically (like an L,
inside the opening where the drawer will go)'' take heed: if you work with an electric drill I advise you to pre-drill the holes for the ''Bottom four'',
at least on the part that is parallel to the floor (look at the drawing). When the bed is fully assembled there won't be enough space for a regular-
sized drill to fit and drill a straight hole for the corner brace in the drawer space.

:D

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The package arrived a little damaged but that is expected for living in a remote location. No parts were damaged or missing despite the package damage. The bed is heavy and arrives in 2 packages. I assembled the unit in a few hours by myself. The process is much easier on the wrist if you use a cordless drill driver. There are a lot of screws! It seems sturdy and I like the real wood sides to the drawers. It has a lot of storage and the drawer glides are smooth. The unit is high off the ground. I purchased it for a teenaged girl to maximize space in a small room. Hopefully it sill stand up to usage, I would have prefered if the unit was available in white to match previous decor we have but the all black unit is clean and sleek.