I thought this would be a little on the low side, but it's actually just fine. We have a 12" mattress and it's about the height of a couch. I really like that the headboard is short enough it doesn't cover up the window above our bed. My only complaint is that the wood is almost black, instead of a dark brown...but it still looks nice with our other dark wood dressers. The box was delivered with a lot of exterior damage, but it was double boxed with lots of foam so there was no damage to the product. Another nice thing about the packaging is that the foam is wrapped in plastic...it may sound silly, but is sure is nice to unpack this and not have little tiny pieces of foam fall off all over the house.