Prepac District King Headboard in Washed

Really happy of it!
Received it faster than expected, assembled alone in like half hour, looks nice and solid. Good deal for the price!

Better than it looks
This headboard is much better than it looks. It arrived early and was easy to assemble. While it is not hardwood, it is still strong and sturdy. The cubby holes are great for storing things, or for cats to tuck into at night. The very top board is thick and very strong, easily capable of holding plants, animals, books, decorations, or almost anything.The holes for queen frames did not line up at all, and were not even close, but I made it work with an extra 2×4 and some screws. Now it is even stronger, and I have zero concerns about it holding up.It is affordable, easy to assemble, strong, and looks good. Checks all the boxes I have.

Amazing
Great quality for what you pay! Came fast and was easy to put together! Sturdy but not too heavy for 2 people to move

As described
This headboard was exactly as described & simple to assemble! Beautiful accent to our bedroom!

Good value for teen’s room. The item came very well packaged, all pieces were shrink wrapped to prevent movement that may scratch or chip the finish, surrounded by foam and cardboard in case the shipping box was damaged. The parts were not marked, so it took a few extra minutes to sort them out, assembly was straight forward and easy. It is laminate finish on particle board furniture, so it does not look or feel like real wood, but it is heavy and sturdy and does not feel flimsy or rickety. It’s a nice functional piece, compact with plenty of storage for a room that can’t fit a lot of furniture. It looks nice at a very reasonable price.

Headboard was well packed in a thick and sturdy cardboard box with no visible damage to the box. Initial frustration (as another reviewer noted) that none of the parts were labeled — and it was therefore needlessly time consuming to label them myself with post-it-notes to make sure that I assembled the parts properly. Once I doped out which boards corresponded to the installation diagram, the diagrams themselves were clear — with one exception.The images used to describe the placement of the two, smallest pieces that serve to separate the interior shelf into three slots (referred to as, “gables” and depicted in the instructions on page 3 of the booklet and marked in images as “H2”) were reversed. In Step 6, There is a notice to make sure that the veneered edge of the gables faces to the front, but when you assemble it that way, you’re not able to see the cam lock inserts as shown in the illustration of Step 6 on page 9, and it took a second to insure that we were in fact attaching them properly.I’ve also assembled a similar storage style headboard that’s sold by Ikea. The cam locks and screws/bolts that came with this headboard were all metal and we didn’t have any problems with any of the hardware. The Ikea version arrived with very fragile plastic cam locks and several were defective and snapped…. requiring a trip to the store to replace them. However, parts in the Ikea version were labeled.Reduction of a star is for the failure to stamp or otherwise mark the pieces for assembly — as well as for the extremely thin and brittle nature of the veneer. As noted above, the box was constructed of a superior grade, reinforced cardboard and was in good shape when it arrived. The pieces were tightly packed and secured both with thin, flat Styrofoam and blown foam encased in plastic and molded into the box to prevent the pieces from slipping around and becoming damaged. Nevertheless, there were numerous small chips in the edges of several of the pieces and when screwing in the cam lock screws (and I was very careful to line up holes and start the screws directly without tilting them), the veneer around several of the screw holes flaked off.They do include a felt tip marker that covers the exposed light yellow particle board that’s just below the veneer’s surface.I used a palm sized Skil rechargeable battery powered screwdriver with a #2 Phillips head bit — which always makes assembly of things with lots of screws go a lot faster. Although for this project, if you had a hand held ratcheting screwdriver, you would be fine (I used a flat head bit in my ratcheting screwdriver as well — to turn the cam locks. The instructions didn’t specify the size screwdriver(s) required.In our installation — I intended on drilling a hole through the upper back panel in order to run a power cord through it for items we intend to place on the recessed shelf — but after we assembled everything but that upper back piece — I’ve left it off initially as the veneer is so thin that I want to make sure that we know the placement of items so I can make the smallest cuts possible. I’ll update the review if we end up doing so.The upper back part is not necessary (in my opinion) and does not add any perceivable structural integrity. I believe it’s essentially cosmetic and therefore if you wanted to use it and have the shelves open to the wall behind the headboard, you could do so. It is not a cardboard laminate, but sturdier and more like a very, very thin MDF (unlike similar pieces of the Ikea model).We are not attaching our head board to a bed frame, but do plan to anchor it to the wall as the baseboard and shoe molding cause the headboard to sit out from the wall about an inch and it therefore moves when even slightly touched. I don’t think it’s in danger of falling over, but if you’re not planning to attach it to a solid bed frame (which will require you to punch out through the stabilizing pieces(H10 and H9 on the diagrams) on the lower right and left sides of the front of the headboard) you may want to consider anchoring it to the wall in order to keep it from bumping into the wall or shifting as you make the bed or set books or whatever on the shelves. Hardware to do so is not included. This might not be as much of an issue if it didn’t have a shelf designed to hold things — but it does and I think most people would be happier if it were secured to a couple of studs. You could also notch the baseboard if you wanted it to sit flush against the wall, but we may want to move the bed to another wall and aren’t going to do so.Color of the item was just as seen in the image.

My first thought when I got home and saw this box laying in my driveway was WTF is that! It was heavy and awkward to carry, so I pulled it in the garage and began putting it together and in about 30 or so mins it was all put together. I stepped back and looked at it and loved it! Pleasantly surprised… ❤️