I thought this was random when I bought it and would either look super random or very cool-- definitely feel like it fell on the cool side.  The only thing to note is that you hang it on the wall as a headboard, so you determine the height, and depending on the look you want there might be a fair amount of space between the top of the mattress and the bottom of the headboard.  You can see this if you look closely in my picture.  We had to do that height b/c of holes on the wall, but anyone could end up having that spacing depending on the bed frame/wall etc.