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26 of 26 found the following review helpful:
Great bang for the buck Oct 14, 2009
By M. Khan
My wife bought this crib for our second baby recently, even though we were both a little skeptical about buying a crib online "sight unseen". As with most parents, the first baby crib buying experience is filled with countless hours of research, visits to Babys'R'Us and other specialty baby furniture stores, and highlighting through the latest Baby Bargains book. With the second baby, however, its all about convenience of shopping. Since the high reviews of this crib, we decided to give this a try.
The crib arrived in 1 flat carton, a little larger in size than a baby mattress. Upon opening the carton, the contents were well packaged. Most of the pieces (side panels, base) are pre assembled. The finish is a nice dark Espresso in a pleasing tone. As with similarly priced items though, the finish is a little easy to get dinged, so have to be a little careful in the assembly. The assembly instructions are a little sparse but since there are few pieces to assemble, it's easily doable.
Assembly requires attaching the 4 bottom posts to the base using 1 dowel and 1 screw each. Next attach some metal strips to the side walls for the mattress base spring. Each side panel is then attached to the base with 3 dowels and 2 screws and to the adjacent panels with 2 screws. The mattress rest (wire spring base on which the mattress rests) attaches to the walls with 4 screws. That's it, you're done.
The mattress height adjustment has 3 (or maybe 4, can't recall) height levels to progress from infant to toddler stages. The included toddler bed front panel is a great must have to extend the use of this crib.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Take heed that the words "convertible" for cribs can mean one of 3 things. It can either mean that a crib can be modified to have a lower/half front rail for the toddler stages OR that the crib can be converted to a full size bed using the two long sides of the crib OR both options are available. This crib ONLY HAS the first option available of a half height/half length front rail. IT CANNOT BE CONVERTED TO A FULL SIZE BED. Just so you know.
Overall construction/finish is good. Assembly is easy. And the convertible aspect earns this crib a 5 star (bang for the buck) rating in my book.
21 of 21 found the following review helpful:
The most beautiful crib I have ever seen May 21, 2010
By M. COMAN
I was set to get the Sleigh Crib from PBK. But then when we moved into our new house, I realized that crib would be way to large for the baby's room. It would not fit a changing table, the crib and a rocker/glider. Therefore, I needed to somehow compromise. I started researching again and by accident came across this crib. I fell in love w/ it as soon as I saw it, but I was skeptical about buying it, because so many reviews said they had received damaged products. I wished I could go into a store and see it first. That was not possible, so I still went ahead and bought the crib (emotional/impulse buying I guess). The crib arrived after 4-5 days of ordering it and the box was a little damaged on the outside. I panicked thinking that it was going to be damaged inside as well. I am 8 months pregnant and this box is huge when it comes...and very heavy....I did not touch it myself, I had the carrier leave it at my door and when my husband came home, he moved it inside the house.
Two weeks later, my husband found the time to actually put the crib together. He assembled it within 1 hour by himself. I was taking pictures for the baby book while he was doing that. As he was putting it together we were both so impressed with the quality of the paint...Just gorgeous...I have to say that it is a bit larger than I had anticipated and way, way more beautiful than I had imagined. I would buy this again in a heartbeat. As my husband was saying when putting it together: "we don't need to leave it inheritance to our grandchildren; it just needs to serve a purpose for the next 2 years". We are so pleased w/ how it looks in our baby's room...Please, don't get discouraged by the reviews about damaged boxes. We bought both the crib and changing table and none were damaged and they were so well packed inside...When you put them together, they look amazing! We painted the baby's room light blue and we're planning on getting a white/light blue rocker to go with the room.
To give you an idea of the quality of things I bought for our son: the Stokee Stroller, Britax car seat and many other quality brands. I don't just buy for the looks of things. But fortunately for us, this crib set seems to be a mixture of both quality, looks and convenience. I will have to take pics and upload them when I am done with the room.
UPDATE as of 05/22/11
We've had this crib for 11 months (our baby is now 10 months old). We still love it and it is in perfect shape. Nothing was scratched, nothing was damaged in any way. The paint is intact and it looks like we bought it yesterday. Our baby is very big ( at 10 months wears clothes for 18 months olds) and due to his length, we have decided to buy him a toddler bed in a couple of months (maybe when he's 16 months). The crib seems to be a tad narrower and shorter than regular cribs. So if you know you have tall people in your family, keep that in mind. Luckily for us, we have decided to start trying for baby #2 soon, so this crib, the dresser and the changing table that go with it will all remain into place for baby no #2 and we will move baby #1 in another room where we will purchase new toddler furniture. I would say that this set has served its purpose and now I am very glad I did not splurge on the Sleigh crib by Pottery Barn or the Oeuf. I cannot imagine what else parents need from this crib than to be sturdy and look beautiful. It has served its purpose well and we could not be more happy with this purchase.
21 of 22 found the following review helpful:
 Great crib... for a while. Apr 17, 2009
By Lauren Henkelman
I loved this crib from the first time I saw it put together in my son's nursery. However, now that he is almost nine months old, the wear and tear that this crib is showing is a little outrageous. There are scratches on the front, presumably from pants buttons as we bend over the crib to get our son out, and the side and front panel are starting to gap away from eachother. We have the three drawer changer as well and it has several chips and scratches also even though we respect our furniture, our eight month old is our only child and we don't have any pets. I still love how these pieces look - until you look up close. I just figured that for $900 worth of furniture it would hold up a little better.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Affordable, modern crib Oct 20, 2009
By Lisa Hunt
"YogaGirl"
I received the crib 2 weeks after ordering, and there were no problems with shipping damage. I put it together myself in about an hour (at 8 months pregnant) except for the mattress support which needs two people to install. It looks gorgeous, especially with other two-tone furniture (look at the Babi Italia scandi changer on Amazon for a great deal) like DwellStudio from Target or Babi Italia (Scandi). If you are looking for a solid, fixed-gate, modern crib, I would definitely consider this one. I researched modern cribs extensively and while I would have liked to get a Stokke, Oeuf, or Nurseryworks I couldn't justify spending $1000 on a crib! This one is a great deal for the money, especially since it comes with a toddler conversion rail that you don't have to purchase separately.
8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Nice, low profile design Sep 30, 2009
By D. Taylor
We looked extensively at various cribs. Our criteria was that it be well constructed with clean simple lines and good looks, under $500 if possible, and preferably have a low profile. Additionally we wanted all white or white with minimal accents. This crib met all of our criteria and had the lowest overall height of any of the cribs we found (unless you spend significantly more money). Because of the low profile it does require the mattress to be lowered almost all to the floor when your baby grows older and thus eliminates any ability for a storage drawer under the crib which would have ben something we would like to have, but we were ok with this compromise.
We did have a small dent in the top rail of the crib presumably from shipping (the packaging was about at thin as it could be and be able to expect the crib would arrive undamaged). Amazon offered to replace the crib or give us a 10% discount. we opted for the discount as packing up and shipping back the crib in its entirely seemed hardly worth it. It would have been preferable if they could have sent us a replacement for the damaged rail but they said the manufacturer was not set up to do that.
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