I was really impressed with the quality of this bed frame. It is really solid, and not made from particle board.  The wood pieces are white with grey wood grain, and it looks really nice.  However other pieces in the room where I am putting this bed has darker wood, so I did a darker wash using black acrylic paint over the boards to create a brownish grey color.  Really easy to do and the results turned out great (I have included a photo of the white pieces and the piece that I washed). The bed frame was easy to assemble, but having a second person there at times is really important, it would have been a huge pain to assemble it just by myself.