Such a beautiful bed! I was so worried it would be to bronze and not dark enough. I wanted a black iron bed but the were all out of our price range for a king size bed, so I finally caved and bought this one. So glad I did because it's solid and very dark like I was hoping for. We goofed on the set up of this thing but caught our mistake and everything worked out. Just follow the instructions and look at the pictures very carefully so you don't end up with the box springs not fitting like ours did, and then realizing our mistake almost an hour later . We had accidentally set up the frame upside down thinking it was all the same but it's definitely not. Once we changed it , the box springs fit.  And yes the frame is grey but the head and foot board are dark bronze which doesn't matter because you will want to have a bed skirt to hide your box springs and frame anyway.