Excellent value for the price, excellent finish, solid wood. About 2 hours to assemble. Use short mattress for trundle.
The positives:
This is solid wood (rubberwood, which comes from latex trees which have reached the end of their productive lives). The wood has a wonderful sheen, I was very impressed with the finish. It looks much more expensive than the cost would indicate.
Assembly is reasonably straightforward. It took me about 2 hours by myself to assemble the bed and trundle.
Extra parts were provided and a whole bunch of allen wrenches.
Value for cost is excellent, pleasantly surprised to find all wood, no particle board and everything fit together smoothly.
The negatives:
When it arrived an entire box was missing. I called and the missing parts were sent, it took another week or so. The woman at Cymax was helpful and did communicate with me about what was going on. However, if I had not realized that there were supposed to be four boxes it would have been much longer until the bed was ready for assembly.
Other info:
You will want a power screwdriver for screwing the slats onto the bed. The rest assembles with an allen wrench (provided).
You need a fairly short mattress (max maybe 7.5 inches) for the trundle, especially if you want to leave bedding on it.
The trundle does not slide all the way under, the “drawer” overlaps the outside of the bed. There are two notches in the top to make it easy to grab to pull out.
Only one end is closed off. The other end is open, so with a trundle, consider your placement in the room. It appears that you can order a headboard separately, but not the short closed one that comes with this. It comes with two sets of legs (tall and short) but with the trundle you need to use the “tall”.
Everything you see is finished. The slats and parts of the trundle are unfinished wood.
Excellent value for the price, excellent finish, solid wood. About 2 hours to assemble. Use short mattress for trundle.
The positives: This is solid wood (rubberwood, which comes from latex trees which have reached the end of their productive lives). The wood has a wonderful sheen, I was very impressed with the finish. It looks much more expensive than the cost would indicate. Assembly is reasonably straightforward. It took me about 2 hours by myself to assemble the bed and trundle. Extra parts were provided and a whole bunch of allen wrenches. Value for cost is excellent, pleasantly surprised to find all wood, no particle board and everything fit together smoothly. The negatives: When it arrived an entire box was missing. I called and the missing parts were sent, it took another week or so. The woman at Cymax was helpful and did communicate with me about what was going on. However, if I had not realized that there were supposed to be four boxes it would have been much longer until the bed was ready for assembly. Other info: You will want a power screwdriver for screwing the slats onto the bed. The rest assembles with an allen wrench (provided). You need a fairly short mattress (max maybe 7.5 inches) for the trundle, especially if you want to leave bedding on it. The trundle does not slide all the way under, the “drawer” overlaps the outside of the bed. There are two notches in the top to make it easy to grab to pull out. Only one end is closed off. The other end is open, so with a trundle, consider your placement in the room. It appears that you can order a headboard separately, but not the short closed one that comes with this. It comes with two sets of legs (tall and short) but with the trundle you need to use the “tall”. Everything you see is finished. The slats and parts of the trundle are unfinished wood.