This piece is beautiful. Love the stain and the quality of construction. I was just surprised when we started looking at the instructions to realize it’s really meant to go on a platform bed. I don’t think I saw that in the description anywhere. Luckily my husband is handy with wood and he’ll be able to make other support pieces that will allow the headboard to sit higher than the boxspring. We’ll also need to add a block of wood where it attached to the bed frame to it sits back and doesn’t hit the mattress. I guess if I had looked at the picture more carefully, I would have noticed that there is only one mattress (and no box spring) in the photos.