The look and feel of this furniture is great. Bamboo is cut into strips and laminated into thick, heavy boards that are used in its construction. Everything is made from it – the tops, sides, and drawer-fronts of the dressers, the mirror, and the bed frame. The headboard and bed frame sides use especially thick pieces. While the interior of the drawers are not bamboo, they are still made of real wood, and there is no press-wood used anywhere that I can see.
Even the drawer handles are an elegant design, and made of heavy, chromed metal. And a nice touch are the springs in the drawer rails that cause the drawers to pull themselves shut when they are about an inch from being closed. The mirror is a thick, beveled glass. And it all arrived very well packaged in cardboard and styrofoam to protect the contents. Only the bed frame had to be assembled, but that was very easy to do.
There were some minor problems – the drawer handles came mounted inside the drawers to protect them so that you have to unscrew each one and mount them outside the drawers, and several of screws were cross-threaded when they arrived. I had to carefully start the screws by hand and then tighten them with a screwdriver, and all of them held fine but one. The threads of the one screw and its handle were stripped, however.
And for some strange reason, the drawers of the 4 drawer upright dresser were mounted so that there was a noticeable 1/4 inch gap between the drawer fronts of the middle two drawers. I had to remount the top two drawers and lower them to get them to look even, but I was able to do a pretty good job of it.
The one major problem I had was the bed frame itself. The inside dimensions of the bed frame (where the mattress fits) measures 80.5 x 80.5 inches, and is too large for a standard king size mattress on the sides. A king size mattress is supposed to measure 76W x 80L inches. I suspect the mattress I had delivered might have been an inch or two narrower because when it was placed in the frame, there was what looked like a 3 to 4 inch gap on each side of the mattress. Head to foot, it fit fine, but the large gaps on the sides are enough to fall into – or at least catch a knee in.
The manufacturer explained this space is to allow your sheets and blankets to be tucked inside the frame, but it’s a little ridiculous. I had the delivery guys take the mattress back while I tried to figure out what to do.
Unfortunately, one idea occurred to me too late – if you install the mattress sideways, and push the mattress up to the headboard, you’ll have only one large gap at the foot of the bed.
I didn’t actually measure the mattress to see if its width was less than the standard 76 inches, but I will need to measure the mattresses in the showroom to find one that is as wide as possible. I thought I might order a custom sized mattress, but no one in my town makes them anymore. Bummer….
Where to buy cheap prices? -Regent Upholstered Headboard – King,Brocade Flax – Frontgate, Fabric: Brocade Flax, King 
