South Shore Furniture, Step One Collection, Queen Platform Bed with Moulding 60"

for $139 bucks and free shipping, this bed is a good deal. Yes, it's 100% high density particle board, but you will be hard pressed to find something that isn't in this price range. I was looking for a good, sturdy, simple platform for my memory foam mattress, and that's exactly what I got. I don't know what's going on with all the negative reviews saying this thing is hard to put together. If you can put together a bookshelf from Wal-mart, you can put this together quicker and easier. It took me about an hour and a half to do it by myself and I didn't encounter any difficulty with it. The only part that is a pain is screwing in the moulding as the last step because you have to prop the bed up and get down there and screw upward. If you're trying to do this part alone, it will be made much MUCH easier if you have some sort of clamp you can use to hold the rail in place while you drive the screws in.

Tips:

Spend $10 and get some corner braces and a pack of very short wood screws. If you use these to reinforce the corners and joins on the inside, not only will it ensure all the corners are square, it will probably double the life of this bed.

As stated before, if you are doing this alone, some method of firmly clamping the moulding while you drive the screws will save you a lot of time and frustration.

Make extremely sure that all the corners are square before you start screwing down the platform boards. if it is even a little off, things won't line up right. This won't be a problem if you are using corner braces.

Those two little useless blocks of particle board that come with it are intended to measure the proper amount that the platform is supposed to overlap the base. Use them and make sure it is dead even all the way across from top to bottom. If you do that with the first board you screw down, all the rest will line up perfectly just using the first board as a guide. If you DON'T use them, your whole platform will be crooked and the screw holes won't be in the right places. I suspect most of the reviews saying the screw holes weren't in the right place were due to skipping this step.

Anyway, good bed, good price. 4 stars instead of 5 because I think they should have included some reinforcing hardware for a bed like this. It wouldn't have cost them much, and would really improve the durability of their product.

this bed frame is extremely heavy. therefore, UPS broke the bed frame during shipment. plus the UPS guy was pushing it around and dropping it when he brought it to my building. as a result, one of the side pieces snapped in half during shipment. unless you have a strong person willing to help you unpack this bed and also you can avoid stairs, I recommend you to NOT get this bed. it was a real hassle to return it. it was a big pain to order, have it delivered, and then open the package only to realize it was broken.

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The bed arrived with many broken pieces. Several of the reviewers mentioned this, but I thought I'd give it a try. The bed is poorly packaged, just cardboard, and the pieces are long and made of particle board, so it's not surprising that many had snapped in half. Also, this box is 140 lbs, so be sure you have help getting it into the house.

It's just what I want in our spare bedroom, but as a long-time Amazon customer, I should have trusted the reviews and my instincts.

Again, I don't think it's the bed per se, it's that it is very heavy and packaged as if it were a book, one cardboard outer box.

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Upon unpacking the box and beginning assembly I noticed that one of the pieces was manufactured incorrectly and the bed would not assemble correctly. I called the company and they said they would send me a replacement piece. It should arrive in 5-7 days. That was the week before Easter and I have yet to receive it and it is now the second week of May. I am in process of recalling the company.

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This must be made out of some cheap fiberboard because it was broken when I received it. Not just broken, but SPLIT perpendicular to the length of the box. The split was THREE BOARDS DEEP!! This wasn't just some sort of chipping or scuffing. It looked like some super-awesome Karate Master had chopped it. This may or may not be amazon's fault...it could be UPS; who knows? Haven't decided to get a refund or try this again yet. It doesn't look like it's made of anything sturdy to begin with. I've used this kind of wood to make shelters for farm animals before, never to support the weight of a foam mattress AND 2 adults. Would probably snap if there was some shifting weight on top it. But who knows, maybe the UPS driver didn't want to carry this 150lbs hulking cardboard behemoth up the stairs so he tried to cut some of it off. UPS is the KARATE MASTER!!!!

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