South Shore Furniture, Step One Collection, Full/Queen Storage Platform Bed 54"/60"

I'm a graduate student, and really, the Platform beds made by South Shore are not worth the money. I got mine (from someone other than Amazon) and tried to lift it up the stairs to my apartment with one friend. Clearly labeled on the box was the weight, a mere 276 lbs. I got it upstairs, and put the bed together. To be honest, it looked great, at first and I was very happy. However, the bed is held together mainly by screws and "plastic dowels." Over time however, the screws all loosened, which caused the bed to creak and shift. Since this is made out of particleboard, there is no strong fibers to hold the screws in place. My aggravation with this reached a highpoint when one of the supporting boards located under the platform flipped on its side, causing the center of the bed to sag a good 1"-2" down. I needed to unscrew the entire top of the platform to get to the board, flip it up, and add more screws. Overtime, movement just pulls the screws (and little bits of lovely wood particles) out of the bed. The solution? More screws in different places. I just moved the bed to a new apartment, and to be honest, it's not going to another one. It looks good, but it won't stay looking good for more than a year (you'll see all the new screws). In retrospect, I would have just purchased a simple durable bed, rather than this monolith.

I have never had a platform bed, but I am quite pleased with this one. It did take some time to assemble and was heavy but I find the quality is substantial. The drawers are big enough to fee up some space in my linen closet and I can have clean sheets ready and waiting as soon as I strip the bed. It is lower then I am used to but I don't think that detracts from the bed itself, it's just a trait of platform beds in general. The price was fantastic and really swayed me in this purchase I couldn't be happer.

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I ordered this bed in the middle of the night just desperately needing a bed so I never looked at the reviews. If I had I would have never ordered it. I wanted real wood and this is almost all MDF. To me MDF isn't durable. I have had numerous items that were MDF and none of them lasted very long. And they were cheaper. Then when we are putting it together not all the pieces have the correct holes for the screws to go in. Overall I wouldn't recommend this to anybody.

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I have only had this for about two weeks. It's okay so far. My major complaint right now is that the bed was a pain in the butt to put together. It had 21 steps in the instructions, and the pieces were not all labeled, forcing us to guess as we went along. Alsothis thing weighs a TON. Do not buy this if you live alone on the second floor. Even the delivery guy and I had a hard time getting the thing up the stairs.

After that the drawers stick a little bit and if you don't line things up exactly right when you put on the platform, you'll wind up with a crooked bottom of the bed. Not a bad piece of furniture, although I would recommend buying foam baby corners if you're like me and prone to walking into the corner of it at 3am.

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It is a good bed, but it is way too low. I feel like I am going to lay in the floor whenever I am about to get into it. But overall it is a nice bed for the price I paid for it, so I cannot complain that much.

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