My husband and I both have Ivy League degrees- granted this doesn't make us 'expert handymen' but at least this prefaces my comments to demonstrate that we are not stupid. The directions to set up this crib were so bad that we had to take it apart and redo steps NUMEROUS TIMES in order to get this crib set up correctly. Not only that, but the product didn't come with all the proper hardware, so between these two issues it took us literally numerous evenings to set this up. Not only that, but the 'wood finish' on this crib scratches off easily and so after just moving it around it looks bad. Honestly my experience with this product was so bad that I am writing my first amazon review just to try to get people to not buy it and to learn from my mistake!